Books written by Diane Wolfthal
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Picturing Yiddish: Gender, Identity, and Memory in the Illustrated Yiddish Books of Renaissance Italy
27 Perhaps for this reason, the Yiddish scribe shows not only men and women dancing intimately together, ... convent brides: Wedding ceremonies in Italy during the Renaissance and Counter-Reformation,” in Marriage in Italy, 1300–1600, ...
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In and Out of the Marital Bed: Seeing Sex in Renaissance Europe
This book explores images whose sexual content has all too often been either ignored or denied. Each chapter is devoted to a place that artists associated with sexual activity or...
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Household Servants and Slaves: A Visual History, 1300-1700
The first book-length study of household servants and slaves, exploring a visual history over 400 years and four continents The first book-length study of both images of ordinary household workers and their material culture, Household ...
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Picturing Yiddish: Gender, Identity, and Memory in the Illustrated Yiddish Books of Renaissance Italy
This is the first comprehensive study of the images in five profusely illustrated Yiddish books that were produced in sixteenth-century Italy: a manuscript of Jewish customs illustrated by its scribe, and two books of customs, a chivalric ...
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Money, Morality, and Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
... Piety and Charity in Late Medieval Florence ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1994 ) , 407 . 86 William R. Levin , The ' Allegory of Mercy ' at the Misericorida in Florence ( Dallas : University Press of America , 2004 ) , 67 ; William R ...