Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance

A fascinating exposition of male self-representation, Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance explores the significance of armour in early modern Italy as both cultural artefact and symbolic form.

Carolyn Springer is a professor in the Department of French and Italian at Stanford University.

Albert R. Ascoli, Gladys Arata Terrill Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies, University of California, Berkeley:
'Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance is a fascinating introduction to the cultural symbolism of armour and its physical, visual, and verbal interpretations in sixteenth-century Italy. Carolyn Springer's writing is clear, intelligent, and witty as she adroitly links her subject to recent discourses concerning power and gender as mediated through representations of the body.'