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  • FATE, HONOR, FAMILY AND VILLAGE
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    FATE, HONOR, FAMILY AND VILLAGE
    RUDOLPH M. BELL
    The Italian peasantry has often been described as tragic, backward, hopeless, downtrodden, static, and passive. In Fate and Honor, Family and Village, Rudolph Bell argues against this characterization by reconstructing the complete demographic history of four country villages since 1800. He analyzes births, marriages, and deaths in terms of four concepts that capture more accur...

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  • HOLY ANOREXIA
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    HOLY ANOREXIA
    RUDOLPH M. BELL
    Is there a resemblance between the contemporary anorexic teenager counting every calorie in her single-minded pursuit of thinness, and an ascetic medieval saint examining her every desire? Rudolph M. Bell suggests that the answer is yes. "Everyone interested in anorexia nervosa . . . should skim this book or study it. It will make you realize how dependent upon culture the defi...

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  • SAINTS AND SOCIETY
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    SAINTS AND SOCIETY
    DONALD WEINSTEIN / RUDOLPH M. BELL
    In Saints and Society, Donald Weinstein and Rudolph M. Bell examine the lives of 864 saints who lived between 1000 and 1700 and the perceptions of sanctity prevalent in late medieval and early modern Europe. They also provide a substantial body of information on the people among whom the saints lived and by whom they came to be venerated. In the first part, the authors give clo...

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  • HOW TO DO IT
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    HOW TO DO IT
    RUDOLPH M. BELL
    How to Do It shows us sixteenth-century Italy from an entirely new perspective: through manuals which were staples in the households of middlebrow Italians merely trying to lead better lives. Addressing challenges such as how to conceive a boy, the manuals offered suggestions such as tying a tourniquet around your husband's left testicle. Or should you want to goad female desir...

    $489.21

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