Negotiating the Art of Fatherhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy

• Main Author: Vitullo, Juliann (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: The New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Literature, Medieval.; Literature, Modern.; European literature.; Medieval Literature.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; European Literature.

Negotiating the Art of Fatherhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy examines contested notions of fatherhood in written and visual texts during the development of the mercantile economy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy. It analyzes debates about the household and community management...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Fertile Fathers of the Poor
• 3. Emotion and the Art of Fatherhood
• 4. Passion and Paternity: Debates about Fictional Fathers
• 5. Paternal Pedagogy and the Palate
• 6. In Bed with the Infidel: Fathers, Slaves, and Children.