Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome

This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides novel insights into the city of Rome during one of its most fascinating periods. It also challenges the notion - well-established in dress historical research on the early modern period - that one was supposed to dress solely according to one''s social station; as Camilla Annerfeldt explores in great depth, this notion does not always seem to have been applicable to early modern Rome because of its very constitution. Using a range of primary sources from the Roman archives as well as texts of early modern writers, Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome presents a vivid account of the history of an early modern society, which will be helpful to historians of fashion, society, politics, material culture, and art, as well as everyone interested in the period when Rome was one of the dominant centres of Europe - culturally, socially, and politically.

Product details

• Authors: Camilla Annerfeldt
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 23.07.2026
• EAN: 9781350431430
• ISBN: 978-1-350-43143-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, Material Culture, Social and cultural history, History of fashion, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Fashion and textile design, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Early 17th century c 1600 to c 1650, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance