Sharon Strocchia
Biographic Data
| ID | 1110555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon Strocchia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon |
| FAMILY NAME | Strocchia |
| SIGNATURE | STROCCHIA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Politics of Exclusion
In 1560, the Florentine guild of Physicians and Apothecaries enacted new regulations that required all medical practitioners, even those who had long practiced in the Medici state, to pass a rigorous licensing examination. Local Jewish practitioners, however, were blocked from taking the examination on the grounds that it contravened Christian law. Only the intervention of Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici enabled them to continue their medical pursuits, …
Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550
Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250–1550
This path-breaking collection offers an integrative model for understanding health and healing in Europe and the Mediterranean from 1250–1550. By foregrounding gender as an organizing principle of healthcare, the contributors challenge traditional binaries that ahistorically separate care from cure, medicine from religion, and domestic healing from fee-for-service medical exchanges. The essays collected here illuminate previously hidden and under…
Art Patronage, Family, and Gender in Renaissance Florence
This beautifully illustrated book examines the extraordinary body of art work commissioned by male members of the patrician Tornabuoni family in late fifteenth-century Florence. The objects that they intended for domestic and religious spaces were impressive in both number and form, ranging from portraits, medals, and panel paintings to frescoes, intarsia work, and stained glass. Marking this collective patronal oeuvre was a fascination with port…
The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death
In 1363 the Black Death struck central Italy for the second time, causing a detectable shift notions of the afterlife and patterns of charitable giving. Throughout Tuscany and Umbria, patricians and peasants alike abandoned their previous practice of dividing bequests into small sums, combining them instead into last gifts to enhance their fame and glory and that of their lineages. Illustrative of the new mentality, religious art patronage spread…
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The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death
In 1363 the Black Death struck central Italy for the second time, causing a detectable shift notions of the afterlife and patterns of charitable giving. Throughout Tuscany and Umbria, patricians and peasants alike abandoned their previous practice of dividing bequests into small sums, combining them instead into last gifts to enhance their fame and glory and that of their lineages. Illustrative of the new mentality, religious art patronage spread…
Art Patronage, Family, and Gender in Renaissance Florence
This beautifully illustrated book examines the extraordinary body of art work commissioned by male members of the patrician Tornabuoni family in late fifteenth-century Florence. The objects that they intended for domestic and religious spaces were impressive in both number and form, ranging from portraits, medals, and panel paintings to frescoes, intarsia work, and stained glass. Marking this collective patronal oeuvre was a fascination with port…
Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550
Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250–1550
This path-breaking collection offers an integrative model for understanding health and healing in Europe and the Mediterranean from 1250–1550. By foregrounding gender as an organizing principle of healthcare, the contributors challenge traditional binaries that ahistorically separate care from cure, medicine from religion, and domestic healing from fee-for-service medical exchanges. The essays collected here illuminate previously hidden and under…
The Politics of Exclusion
In 1560, the Florentine guild of Physicians and Apothecaries enacted new regulations that required all medical practitioners, even those who had long practiced in the Medici state, to pass a rigorous licensing examination. Local Jewish practitioners, however, were blocked from taking the examination on the grounds that it contravened Christian law. Only the intervention of Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici enabled them to continue their medical pursuits, …
Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (2 works) · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (2 works)