Re-membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence Robert Postman with a strategy to create

with a strategy to create a more ordered and ultimately better world

she shows how the formation of "core" stories and their multiple re-tellings and modifications provide a means of formulating and promoting a cohesive group identity -- which in turn shapes the stories and identities of the individuals within the collective

and in the Critical Theory of Benjamin and AdornoAndrew Bowie argues

The Performance of 16th-Century Music will enable the performer to better

Re-membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence Robert Postman with a strategy to createFrom Pliny to Petrarch to Pope Hennessy and beyond, many have understood the obvious connection between portraiture and commemorative practice. This book expands and nuances our understanding of Renaissance portraiture; the author shows it to be complexly generated within a discourse of male anxiety and pre mortuary mourning. She argues that portraiture could defer memory loss or, at the very least, pictorially console the subject against his own