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- 1999-03-31
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- 9780226042107
- EAN
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- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- How to Do It : Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians
- Item Height
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- Item Length
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- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
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- 0.6in
- Item Weight
- 25.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 389 Pages
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How to Do It shows us sixteenth-century Italy from an entirely new perspective: through manuals which were staples in the households of middlebrow Italians merely trying to lead better lives. Addressing challenges such as how to conceive a boy, the manuals offered suggestions such as tying a tourniquet around your husband's left testicle. Or should you want to goad female desires, throw 90 grubs in a liter of olive oil, let steep in the sun for a week and apply liberally on the male anatomy. Bell's journey through booklets long dismissed by scholars as being of little literary value gives us a refreshing and surprisingly fun social history. "Lively and curious reading, particularly in its cascade of anecdote, offered in a breezy, cozy, journalistic style." --Lauro Martines, Times Literary Supplement " Bell's] fascinating book is a window on a lost world far nearer to our own than we might imagine. . . . How pleasant to read his delightful, informative and often hilarious book." --Kate Saunders, The Independent "An extraordinary work which blends the learned with the frankly bizarre." -- The Economist "Professor Bell has a sly sense of humor and an enviably strong stomach. . . . He wants to know how people actually behaved, not how the Church or philosophers or earnest humanists thought they should behave. I loved this book." --Christopher Stace, Daily Telegraph
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University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226042103
ISBN-13
9780226042107
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590661
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Publication Name
How to Do It : Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Number of Pages
389 Pages
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Item Length
0.9in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
25.1 Oz
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Hq629.B45 1999
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Readers 2. Conception Boy or Girl Frequency of Intercourse Positions during Intercourse Setting Male Impotence Infertility in Women Menstruation Are You Pregnant? 3. Pregnancy and Childbirth Boy or Girl? Maybe Twins? Due Date Miscarriage Diet and Daily Activity Midwives Anatomy Labor Postpartum Care 4. Raising Your Child Nursing: Who Should Do It? Nursing: How to Do It Child Rearing: Physical Health Child Rearing: Good Character Children's Books 5. Adolescence Who Was an Adolescent? The Sins of Adolescence Making Fun Choosing a Spouse 6. Marital Relations From the Humanists From the Church From the Gentlemen Widows 7. Then and Now Female Authorship The Internet Notes Index
Copyright Date
1999
Target Audience
Trade
Topic
Personal & Practical Guides, Europe / Italy, Modern / 16th Century, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Europe / Renaissance, General, Customs & Traditions, Sociology / Marriage & Family
Lccn
98-035105
Dewey Decimal
646.7/00945/09031
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Self-Help, Family & Relationships, Référence, History, Social Science, Philosophy
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