How Long to Read Knots, Or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence

How Long Does it Take to Read Knots, Or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 46 minutes to read Knots, Or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence by Emanuele Lugli

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

""This book is about hair," writes Emanuele Lugli in the first sentence of this innovative cultural history of hair as seen through the lens of Lorenzo il Magnifico's Florence. Lugli reflects on the ways writers and artists naturalized religious prejudices, circumscribed social practices, and propagated gender and class subjugation through alluring works of art, in medical and political writings, and in poetry. What, he asks, may've compelled Sandro Botticelli, for example, or the young Leonardo da Vinci and dozens of their contemporaries to obsess about hair? Why take such care in depicting the braids, knots, and textures in their portraits of women specifically? Lugli dives deeply into the cultural production of notions about hair in this period of Florentine history, the way artists, poets, natural philosophers, doctors, politicians, and theologians thought about it, and how they depicted it in their art and writings. From this varied archive, Lugli gathers rewarding insights from practices and beliefs across the disciplines and genres at a crucial time when Renaissance humanists were attempting to define what it meant to live-and be-human. Lugli recuperates overlooked perceptions of hair at the very moment when hair came to be identified as a potential vector for liberating culture, and he corrects a centuries-old prejudice that sees hair as a trivial subject, as a mere female occupation kept on the margins of relevance, relegated to passing fashion or the decorative. As Lugli shows, such oversight is anachronistic, a product of modern biases, and he corrects this by elucidating hundreds of fifteenth-century sources that engage with hair as a fundamental element in the definition of genders, morals, and the laws of nature, and the exercise of power. It is a book that will surprise and delight a wide audience of scholars and anyone interested in the hidden, systemic, creative power that relied on something as unsuspected as hair to coerce people into thinking and behaving according to a code of conduct"--

How long is Knots, Or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence?

Knots, Or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence by Emanuele Lugli is 337 pages long, and a total of 86,609 words.

This makes it 114% the length of the average book. It also has 106% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Knots, Or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 53 minutes to read Knots, Or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence aloud.

What Reading Level is Knots, Or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence?

Knots, Or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

Where Can I Buy Knots, Or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence?

Knots, Or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence by Emanuele Lugli is sold by several retailers and bookshops. However, Read Time works with Amazon to provide an easier way to purchase books.

To buy Knots, Or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence by Emanuele Lugli on Amazon click the button below.