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Description:: In the late Middle Ages, the Italian word fama had a wide semantic range that encompassed such vitally important topics as reputation, honor, community memory, and trustworthiness. In this dissertation, I examine how fama manifested within sodomy prosecutions in late medieval Italy and what insights such prosecutions can give into...
Keyword:: Middle Ages, Fama, Sexuality, Italy, Gender, and Renaissance
Subject:: Medieval history
Creator:: Noll-Syrigos, Kathleen Anne
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/02/2022
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15846 and etdadmin_upload_860406

Description:: This project argues that displays of humanist learning in diplomacy served to demonstrate the extraordinary good will of the Florentine regime towards a host ruler. I call this act of surpassing previous oratorical gestures a "cultural gift". Although the singular goal of humanism in diplomacy remained offering cultural gifts in...
Keyword:: Oratory, Gift, Florence, Diplomacy, Renaissance, and Humanism
Subject:: History
Creator:: Brian Maxson
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/06/2018
Date Modified:: 09/06/2018
Date Created:: 2008-04-24
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Chambers of Flemish tapestry served as prestigious, portable decoration for early modern courts across Europe. In the second half of the sixteenth century, a number of noble patrons commissioned tapestries that prominently featured highly naturalistic zoological and botanical imagery. Drawing upon zoological treatises, medical and physiognomic literature, fables, printed emblemata,...
Keyword:: early modern, courts, tapestry, Renaissance, natural history, and animal
Subject:: Art History
Creator:: Carmen Cramer Niekrasz
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/27/2018
Date Modified:: 08/27/2018
Date Created:: 2007-11-15
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, many images of dwarves, hirsutes, and castrati depict them in the guise of the monstrous, either as jokes of nature or indices of courtly wit. However, there are some Renaissance portraits of physically deformed individuals that transcend these categories. These portraits point to the...
Keyword:: hirsute, anatomy, monster, Renaissance, dwarf, castrato, and portraiture
Subject:: Art History
Creator:: Touba Ghadessi Fleming
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 06/01/2018
Date Modified:: 06/01/2018
Date Created:: 2007-05-14
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Early Modern Matters of Life and Death” argues that the political ecology of living, dead, and (in)animate beings in early modernity elucidates the claims of humanism and human exceptionalism that evolved in the period and that still inform present-day anthropogenesis
Keyword:: Anthropogenesis, Sovereignty, Life, Shakespeare, Renaissance, and Death
Subject:: English
Creator:: Aaron Lee Greenberg
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 04/30/2018
Date Modified:: 04/09/2020
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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