Accounting for Affection

Mothering and Politics in Early Modern Rome
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-230-20331-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 315 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Reihe: Early Modern History: Society and Culture

Accounting for Affection examines the multifaceted nature of early modern motherhood by focusing on the ideas and strategies of Roman aristocratic mothers during familial conflict. Illuminating new approaches to the maternal and the familial employed by such women, it demonstrates how interventions gained increasing favor in early modern Rome.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Castiglione, C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction1. Practicing Motherhood When the Definition of 'Family' is Ambiguous: Anna Colonna and the Barberini Dynasty, 1627-1647 2. The Interests Common to Us All: Olimpia Giustiniani on the Governing of the Roman Aristocratic Family 3. At the Nexus of Impossibility: The Medical and the Maternal in Seventeenth-Century Rome 4. Ippolita's Wager: Letting Daughters Decide in the Early Eighteenth Century 5. Extravagant Pretensions: The Triumph of Maternal Love in the World of Rome Conclusion Appendices Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Caroline Castiglione is Associate Professor of Italian Studies and History at Brown University, USA. She is the author of 60 (2005), winner of the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies in 2006.