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Voices from the margin. Italian Renaissance paratexts and women’s knowledge production

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Τίτλος: Voices from the margin. Italian Renaissance paratexts and women’s knowledge production
Συγγραφείς: Jelena Bakic
Πηγή: Galilæana, Vol 22, Iss 2 (2025)
Στοιχεία εκδότη: Museo Galileo, 2025.
Έτος έκδοσης: 2025
Συλλογή: LCC:Auxiliary sciences of history
Θεματικοί όροι: natural philosophy, querelle des femmes, paratexts, Renaissance Italy, women authors, Auxiliary sciences of history
Περιγραφή: This article investigates the role of Renaissance paratextual sources – particularly dedicatory epistles authored by women – as a key space for understanding female contributions to knowledge production in the early modern period. Focusing on Italian works from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, it analyses how female authors, within contexts such as the querelle des femmes, epistolary practices, scientific dialogues, and poetry, used these marginal spaces to negotiate gender roles, claim authority, and position themselves within the circulation of knowledge. Approaching these texts through the lens of privacy studies and the history of emotions, and applying a slow close-reading methodology, the article reveals how dedicatory epistles served both as self-defense and as a declaration of intellectual agency in the Italian Renaissance.
Τύπος εγγράφου: article
Περιγραφή αρχείου: electronic resource
Γλώσσα: English
Italian
ISSN: 1825-3903
Relation: https://gal-studies.museogalileo.it/index.php/galilaeana/article/view/87; https://doaj.org/toc/1825-3903
DOI: 10.57617/gal-87
Σύνδεσμος πρόσβασης: https://doaj.org/article/a1189e71e6244f91a81669b4ac20ff5d
Αριθμός Καταχώρησης: edsdoj.1189e71e6244f91a81669b4ac20ff5d
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Περιγραφή
ISSN:18253903
DOI:10.57617/gal-87