Evelyn Welch

Renaissance Skin

Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 400 Seiten
ISBN 1526167751
EAN 9781526167750
Veröffentlicht 16. September 2025
Verlag/Hersteller Manchester University Press
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Beschreibung

This book is the definitive study of how skin was debated, understood and misunderstood in Europe between 1500 and 1700. It is based on deep historical research and includes hundreds of colour images from the period.

Portrait

Evelyn Welch is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Bristol. Her book Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy, 1400-1600 was a winner of the 2006 Wolfson History Prize. Her other publications include Making and Marketing Medicine in Renaissance Florence (2011) and Fashioning the Early Modern: Dress, Textiles and Innovation in Europe, 1500-1800 (2017).