Elizabeth S Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3962457 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth S Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth S |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN E S |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mapping the Ottomans: Sovereignty, Territory, and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean
The Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium: An Independent Intellectual Forum at Fifty Years
The Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium: An Independent Intellectual Forum at Fifty Years. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (In Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary (I)), on Érudit
Open City: An Introduction to Gender in Early Modern Rome
The article discusses concepts of gender, gender roles, and the activities of women in Early Modern Rome, Italy. Topics discussed include the initiatives and social roles of women in Rome during this time, intersections between patriarchal beliefs and individual beliefs of men in Rome during this period, and political and religious structures in Rome at this time
She Said, He Said: Situated Oralities in Judicial Records from Early Modern Rome
In practice, early modern culture was for most Europeans more oral than written. Yet spoken words, especially those of ordinary people, are, for scholars, tantalizingly elusive. Testimonies, recorded verbatim, in judicial proceedings for the city of Rome and other Italian jurisdictions offer rich repositories of oral expression uttered by women and men of diverse ages and social positions. Yet to explore these documents as terrains of speech and …
Perdonare: Idee, pratiche, rituali in Italia tra Cinque e Seicento
Postscript: Charismatic things and social transaction in Renaissance Italy
In 1860, Jacob Burckhardt published his view, still influential today, of an artful, urban Italian Renaissance that launched Europe on its passage to modernity. A lively revisionary scholarship has challenged Burckhardt on many points, but his famous formulae still resonate: the state as work of art; the development of the individual; the discovery of the world and of man. Although we now know that Italy did not alone invent the new age, it was f…
Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy: Identities, Families, and Masculinities (review)
Reviewed by: Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy: Identities, Families, and Masculinities Elizabeth S. Cohen Cavallo, Sandra — Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy: Identities, Families, and Masculinities. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2007. Pp. 281. Sandra Cavallo's fine monograph about seventeenth- and eighteenth-century barber surgeons in Turin, Italy, delivers rich lessons for historians of many interests.…
Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557–1789
Joanne M. Ferraro. Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557–1789. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xvi+248 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $45. ISBN: 978–0–8018–8987–5. - Volume 62 Issue 3
To Pray, To Work, To Hear, To Speak: Women in Roman Streets c. 1600
Using pictures, city regulations, and judicial records, this essay claims a place for women of varying rank and status in the street life of early modern Rome. It revises the conventional binary of male public realms and female domesticity that, reinforced by scholarly expectations of Mediterranean gendered seclusion, obscures a necessary female presence in the city. In urban spaces outside their homes beggars, prostitutes, servants, working wive…
Miscarriages of apothecary justice: Un‐separate spaces of work and family in early modern Rome
Claiming that a disruptive inspection by the College of Apothecaries had caused his wife and co‐worker to miscarry and shortly die, a Roman candymaker in 1609 brought criminal charges against six guildsmen. A microanalysis of the trial records tells two linked stories. The first reconstructs tensions between, on the one hand, communal and corporate discipline and, on the other, one master's practices. The second recounts an obstetrical crisis inv…
Back Talk: Two Prostitutes’ Voices from Rome c. 1600
The Pope’s Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere
Caroline P. Murphy. The Pope’s Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xvii + 360 pp. + 34 color pls. index. illus. map. bibl. $28. ISBN: 0-19-518268-5. - Volume 59 Issue 2
The Courtesan’s Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Martha Feldman and Bonnie Gordon, eds. The Courtesan’s Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xxviii + 396 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $85. ISBN: 0-19-517029-6. - Volume 59 Issue 4
Open and Shut: The Social Meanings of the Cinquecento Roman House
The Trials of Artemisia Gentileschi: A Rape as History
Lately rediscovered and celebrated as a talented female artist in the great tradition of European painting, Artemisia Gentileschi continues to be represented as strongly defined by her sexuality. Incomplete and anachronistic readings of the records from the 1612 trial for her rape have underpinned an image of Artemisia as, in the older treatments, a flirt and vamp or, in more recent ones, a feminist and resister of male violence. Here a more hist…
Seen and Known: Prostitutes in the Cityscape of Late-Sixteenth-Century Rome
Seen and known: Prostitutes in the cityscape of late‐sixteenth‐century Rome
Seen and known: Prostitutes in the cityscape of late-sixteenth-century Rome
Tochter der Venus: Die Kurtisanen Roms im 16. Jahrhundert
Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome: Trials before the Papal Magistrates
Honor and Gender in the Streets of Early Modern Rome
Honor and Gender in the Streets of Early Modern Rome Historians of early modern Europe have recently turned to the notion of honor to help account for the mentality and behavior of ordinary people. Honor has long been given a major role in the moral codes of medieval chivalry and later in those of aristocracies which carried on the ideal of knightly virtue. Scholars-including Davis, Burke, Amelang, and Farrhave described how honor also shaped liv…
Courtesans” and “Whores”: Words and behavior in roman streets
THE COURTESANS of Renaissance Italy were prostitutes; indeed they were whores. Such assertions sound a little startling. Brief reflection confirms that the statements are true, even tautological. What shocks is a matter of language; in equating these words I have violated linguistic distinctions carefully cobbled not so much, I would argue, to reflect reality, but to assuage our emotional needs. While I am convinced that in general the scholar's …
Donna e Rinascimento. Romeo de Maio
Camilla the go-between: The politics of gender in a Roman household (1559)
A partir des témoignages devant un magistrat de la cour papale, instruisant un cas de proxénétisme, nous pouvons dénouer les fils d'une intrigue amoureuse et domestique. Cette affaire oppose un mari brutal et jaloux à la frêle coalition d'une épouse adultère et de sa servante qui connive avec elle. Une lecture serreé des textes – les évènements domestiques et les termes employés pour les décrire – permet de reconstituer les stratégies des trois a…
On Doing the History of Women's Education
Open and Shut: The Social Meanings of the Cinquecento Roman House
Seen and known: Prostitutes in the cityscape of late-sixteenth-century Rome
Back Talk: Two Prostitutes’ Voices from Rome c. 1600
To Pray, To Work, To Hear, To Speak: Women in Roman Streets c. 1600
Using pictures, city regulations, and judicial records, this essay claims a place for women of varying rank and status in the street life of early modern Rome. It revises the conventional binary of male public realms and female domesticity that, reinforced by scholarly expectations of Mediterranean gendered seclusion, obscures a necessary female presence in the city. In urban spaces outside their homes beggars, prostitutes, servants, working wive…
She Said, He Said: Situated Oralities in Judicial Records from Early Modern Rome
In practice, early modern culture was for most Europeans more oral than written. Yet spoken words, especially those of ordinary people, are, for scholars, tantalizingly elusive. Testimonies, recorded verbatim, in judicial proceedings for the city of Rome and other Italian jurisdictions offer rich repositories of oral expression uttered by women and men of diverse ages and social positions. Yet to explore these documents as terrains of speech and …
Honor and Gender in the Streets of Early Modern Rome
Honor and Gender in the Streets of Early Modern Rome Historians of early modern Europe have recently turned to the notion of honor to help account for the mentality and behavior of ordinary people. Honor has long been given a major role in the moral codes of medieval chivalry and later in those of aristocracies which carried on the ideal of knightly virtue. Scholars-including Davis, Burke, Amelang, and Farrhave described how honor also shaped liv…
Camilla the go-between: The politics of gender in a Roman household (1559)
A partir des témoignages devant un magistrat de la cour papale, instruisant un cas de proxénétisme, nous pouvons dénouer les fils d'une intrigue amoureuse et domestique. Cette affaire oppose un mari brutal et jaloux à la frêle coalition d'une épouse adultère et de sa servante qui connive avec elle. Une lecture serreé des textes – les évènements domestiques et les termes employés pour les décrire – permet de reconstituer les stratégies des trois a…
On Doing the History of Women's Education
Camilla the go-between: The politics of gender in a Roman household (1559)
A partir des témoignages devant un magistrat de la cour papale, instruisant un cas de proxénétisme, nous pouvons dénouer les fils d'une intrigue amoureuse et domestique. Cette affaire oppose un mari brutal et jaloux à la frêle coalition d'une épouse adultère et de sa servante qui connive avec elle. Une lecture serreé des textes – les évènements domestiques et les termes employés pour les décrire – permet de reconstituer les stratégies des trois a…
Courtesans” and “Whores”: Words and behavior in roman streets
THE COURTESANS of Renaissance Italy were prostitutes; indeed they were whores. Such assertions sound a little startling. Brief reflection confirms that the statements are true, even tautological. What shocks is a matter of language; in equating these words I have violated linguistic distinctions carefully cobbled not so much, I would argue, to reflect reality, but to assuage our emotional needs. While I am convinced that in general the scholar's …
Donna e Rinascimento. Romeo de Maio
Honor and Gender in the Streets of Early Modern Rome
Honor and Gender in the Streets of Early Modern Rome Historians of early modern Europe have recently turned to the notion of honor to help account for the mentality and behavior of ordinary people. Honor has long been given a major role in the moral codes of medieval chivalry and later in those of aristocracies which carried on the ideal of knightly virtue. Scholars-including Davis, Burke, Amelang, and Farrhave described how honor also shaped liv…
Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome: Trials before the Papal Magistrates
Tochter der Venus: Die Kurtisanen Roms im 16. Jahrhundert
Seen and Known: Prostitutes in the Cityscape of Late-Sixteenth-Century Rome
Seen and known: Prostitutes in the cityscape of late‐sixteenth‐century Rome
Seen and known: Prostitutes in the cityscape of late-sixteenth-century Rome
The Trials of Artemisia Gentileschi: A Rape as History
Lately rediscovered and celebrated as a talented female artist in the great tradition of European painting, Artemisia Gentileschi continues to be represented as strongly defined by her sexuality. Incomplete and anachronistic readings of the records from the 1612 trial for her rape have underpinned an image of Artemisia as, in the older treatments, a flirt and vamp or, in more recent ones, a feminist and resister of male violence. Here a more hist…
Open and Shut: The Social Meanings of the Cinquecento Roman House
The Pope’s Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere
Caroline P. Murphy. The Pope’s Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xvii + 360 pp. + 34 color pls. index. illus. map. bibl. $28. ISBN: 0-19-518268-5. - Volume 59 Issue 2
The Courtesan’s Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Martha Feldman and Bonnie Gordon, eds. The Courtesan’s Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xxviii + 396 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $85. ISBN: 0-19-517029-6. - Volume 59 Issue 4
Miscarriages of apothecary justice: Un‐separate spaces of work and family in early modern Rome
Claiming that a disruptive inspection by the College of Apothecaries had caused his wife and co‐worker to miscarry and shortly die, a Roman candymaker in 1609 brought criminal charges against six guildsmen. A microanalysis of the trial records tells two linked stories. The first reconstructs tensions between, on the one hand, communal and corporate discipline and, on the other, one master's practices. The second recounts an obstetrical crisis inv…
Back Talk: Two Prostitutes’ Voices from Rome c. 1600
To Pray, To Work, To Hear, To Speak: Women in Roman Streets c. 1600
Using pictures, city regulations, and judicial records, this essay claims a place for women of varying rank and status in the street life of early modern Rome. It revises the conventional binary of male public realms and female domesticity that, reinforced by scholarly expectations of Mediterranean gendered seclusion, obscures a necessary female presence in the city. In urban spaces outside their homes beggars, prostitutes, servants, working wive…
Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy: Identities, Families, and Masculinities (review)
Reviewed by: Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy: Identities, Families, and Masculinities Elizabeth S. Cohen Cavallo, Sandra — Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy: Identities, Families, and Masculinities. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2007. Pp. 281. Sandra Cavallo's fine monograph about seventeenth- and eighteenth-century barber surgeons in Turin, Italy, delivers rich lessons for historians of many interests.…
Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557–1789
Joanne M. Ferraro. Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557–1789. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xvi+248 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $45. ISBN: 978–0–8018–8987–5. - Volume 62 Issue 3
Perdonare: Idee, pratiche, rituali in Italia tra Cinque e Seicento
Postscript: Charismatic things and social transaction in Renaissance Italy
In 1860, Jacob Burckhardt published his view, still influential today, of an artful, urban Italian Renaissance that launched Europe on its passage to modernity. A lively revisionary scholarship has challenged Burckhardt on many points, but his famous formulae still resonate: the state as work of art; the development of the individual; the discovery of the world and of man. Although we now know that Italy did not alone invent the new age, it was f…
She Said, He Said: Situated Oralities in Judicial Records from Early Modern Rome
In practice, early modern culture was for most Europeans more oral than written. Yet spoken words, especially those of ordinary people, are, for scholars, tantalizingly elusive. Testimonies, recorded verbatim, in judicial proceedings for the city of Rome and other Italian jurisdictions offer rich repositories of oral expression uttered by women and men of diverse ages and social positions. Yet to explore these documents as terrains of speech and …
Open City: An Introduction to Gender in Early Modern Rome
The article discusses concepts of gender, gender roles, and the activities of women in Early Modern Rome, Italy. Topics discussed include the initiatives and social roles of women in Rome during this time, intersections between patriarchal beliefs and individual beliefs of men in Rome during this period, and political and religious structures in Rome at this time
The Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium: An Independent Intellectual Forum at Fifty Years
The Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium: An Independent Intellectual Forum at Fifty Years. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (In Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary (I)), on Érudit
Mapping the Ottomans: Sovereignty, Territory, and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean
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