Body, Self and Melancholy: The Self-Narratives and Life of the Nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634-1710)...

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Siglinde Clementi

Body, Self and Melancholy

The Self-Narratives and Life of the Nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634-1710)

Siglinde Clementi

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Routledge
18 December 2024

Literary studies: general; Historiography; European history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Social & cultural history

Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

This book addresses early modern concepts of the body and the self – focussing on three self-narratives authored by the nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634–1710), a body description from head to foot, autobiographical writings, and a brief chronicle of the House of Trapp-Caldonazzo.

Approaching the complex theme of the question of the early modern self and the historical body, this book intertwines consistent contextualisation and historicisation of self-interpretation and biography. This is done in three steps: first, the content and function of these self-narratives are analysed with reference to current research on early modern self-narratives. In a second step, the life and family history of Osvaldo Ercole Trapp are examined from a microhistorical perspective and placed within the context of the early modern history of Tyrol’s nobility. A third step then goes into detail on individual contexts and discourses that refine one’s comprehension of these self-narratives: noble masculinity; family, house and line; theories of procreation and education; body experience and body images. It combines textual analysis, historical anthropology with a strong gender-historical perspective, microhistory and the history of the body as a history of experience and discourse. With this approach, the study makes an innovative contribution to early modern studies on self-narratives, social history of early modern nobility and the history of the body as the history of experience and discourse.

This volume will be of interest to students and scholars alike interested in intellectual, social and cultural history.

By: Siglinde Clementi
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781032440637
ISBN 10: 1032440635
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 18 December 2024
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Siglinde Clementi is the Vice-Director of the Competence Centre for Regional History at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, where she leads the research area of gender and women’s history. She is currently working on a research project regarding the concept of the noble house in early modern economics. She has co-edited, among others, the volume Negotiations of Gender and Property through Legal Regimes (14th–19th century).