Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance by Ruggiero, Guido - 1993

Oxford University Press, USA, 1993. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Oxford University Press, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Oxford University Press, USA, 1993-06-10. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Oxford, 1993. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. FINE/NEAR FINE. 286 pp. Exceedingly clean and sharp; DJ spine just faintly sunned.

Oxford University Press, New York ; Oxford, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition. Mining the rich Venetian archives, especially the unusually detailed records of Venice's own branch of the Roman Inquisition, Guido Ruggiero provides a strikingly new and provocative interpretation of the end of the Renaissance in Italy. In this boldly structured work, he develops five narrative accounts of individual encounters with the Inquisition that illustrate the double-edged metaphor of how passions were both bound by late Renaissance society and were seen in turn as binding people. In this way new perspectives are opened on magic, witchcraft, love, marriage, gender, and discipline at the level of the community and beyond. Witches, courtesans, prostitutes, women healers, nobles, Cardinals, and renegade priests and monks speak from these pages describing their lives, beliefs, hopes, fears, and lies. With an imaginative flair for storytelling and impeccable scholarship, Ruggiero exposes the rich… Read More

New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. [ix] 286p., dj.

Oxford Univ Press,1993, . hbk 286pp ISBN: 0195079302dj slightly shelf worn now in protective sleeve text is excellent clean and tight

New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Introduction: Carne Vale and Carnaval. Mining the rich Venetian archives, especially the unusually detailed records of Venice's own branch of the Roman Inquisition, Guido Ruggiero provides a strikingly new and provocative interpretation of the end of the Renaissance in Italy. In this boldly structured work, he develops five narrative accounts of individual encounters with the Inquisition that illustrate the double-edged metaphor of how passions were both bound by late Renaissance society and were seen in turn as binding people. In this way new perspectives are opened on magic, witchcraft, love, marriage, gender, and discipline at the level of the community and beyond. Witches, courtesans, prostitutes, women healers, nobles, Cardinals, and renegade priests and monks speak from these pages describing their lives, beliefs, hopes, fears, and lies. With an imaginative flair for storytelling and impeccable scholarship, Ruggiero exposes the rich… Read More

Oxford University Press, 1993-06-10. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!