{"product_id":"making-the-renaissance-man-by-timothy-mccall-9781789147858","title":"Making the Renaissance Man","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking the Renaissance Man\u003c\/i\u003e explores the images, objects and experiences that fashioned men and masculinity in the courts of fifteenth-century Italy. Across the peninsula, Italian princes fought each other in fierce battles and spectacular jousts; they seduced mistresses, flaunted splendour in lavish rituals of knighting and demonstrated prowess through the hunt, in ostentatious performances of masculinity and rule.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHardly frivolous pastimes, these activities were essential displays of privilege and virility; indeed, violence underlay the cultural veneer of the Italian Renaissance. Timothy McCall investigates representations and ideals of manhood and provides a historically grounded and gorgeously illustrated account of how male identity and sexuality proclaimed power, in a century crucial to the formation of early modern Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46849533772012,"sku":"9781789147858","price":65.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/28007623482824.jpg?v=1759049842","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/making-the-renaissance-man-by-timothy-mccall-9781789147858","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}