Publication details
Kobieta w kulturze wizualnej morawskich pałaców renesansowych
| Title in English | Women in the visual culture of (Moravian) Renaissance chateaus |
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | In terms of common knowledge, older European history has long been perceived as the history of men, or the history of men and for men, in which women only play a second¬ary and in many respects a passive role. A methodological shift that presented “wom¬en‘s history” as one of the historiographical “new objects” meant a certain modification in this regard. In recent years, however, the methodological approach to the history of women in the environment of the social elite of the early modern age has changed sig¬nificantly. It is researched as a role that went together with a role of a men on the same social scene. Also within the visual presentation, both men and women appear together in the cultural environment of the Central European Renaissance, and moreover, they both co-create and co-identify it. Women also played an irreplaceable role in the practical and symbolic world of the Renaissance mansion. This role changed over time and with the situation. It grew in case of a marriage, and when the residence was being rebuilt to fulfill new real and sym¬bolic functions with regard to the presence of the chateau mistress and the new “gender” structure of the aristocratic court. In this context, the role of women in the visual culture of early modern chateaus was determined by several basic givens. In addition to the social role in the aristocratic soci¬ety, this was a symbolic role, but to some extent, it reflected a real function in the need to bear children and bring up the next generation. Last but not least, the contemporary de-corum, reflecting the antique-like world of the Italian and the Transalpine Renaissance, cannot be forgotten. This decorum, according to some authors, was predetermined by the return to the ancient pantheon as conveyed by Renaissance period books. |
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