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Body, Self and Melancholy The Self-Narratives and Life of the Nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634-1710)
By Siglinde Clementi
Copyright 2024
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book addresses early modern concepts of the body and the self – focussing on three self-narratives authored by the nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634–1710), a body description from head to foot, autobiographical writings, and a brief chronicle of the House of Trapp-Caldonazzo.
Approaching the complex theme of the question of the early modern self and the historical body, this book... Read more
Part 1: The Self-Narratives of Osvaldo Ercole Trapp 1. The Texts 2. Approaches Part 2: Biography and Family History Part 3: Contexts and Discourses
Biography
Siglinde Clementi is the Vice-Director of the Competence Centre for Regional History at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, where she leads the research area of gender and women’s history. She is currently working on a research project regarding the concept of the noble house in early modern economics. She has co-edited, among others, the volume Negotiations of Gender and Property through Legal Regimes (14th–19th century).
