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1 online resource |
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Cambridge elements. Elements in the Renaissance |
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Cambridge elements. Elements in the Renaissance.
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| Summary |
Cinderella's Glass Slipper studies Renaissance material cultures through the literary prism of fairy-tale objects. The literary fairy-tale first arose in Renaissance Venice, originating from oral story-telling traditions that would later become the Arabian Nights, and subsequently in the Parisian salons of Louis XIV. Largely written by, for, and in the name of women, these literary fairy-tales took a lightly comic view of life's vicissitudes, especially female fortune in marriage. Connecting literary representations of bridal goods - dress, jewellery, carriages, toiletries, banqueting and confectionary foods - to the craft histories of their making, this Element offers a newly-contextualised socio-economic account of Renaissance luxe, from architectural interiors to sartorial fashioning and design. By coupling Renaissance luxury wares with their fairy-tale representation, it locates the recherché materialities of bridal goods - gold, silver, diamonds and silk - within expanding colonialist markets of a newly-global early modern economy in the age of discovery |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 05, 2022) |
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Material culture -- Social aspects -- History -- 15th century
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Fairy tales -- Social aspects -- History -- 15th century
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Material culture in literature.
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Fairy tales -- Social aspects
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Material culture in literature
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Material culture -- Social aspects
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781009263948 |
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1009263943 |
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