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If you would like to learn more about any of the topics raised during this exhibition, please explore the list of resources and cited material below.

Judith

  • To view clothing from the Early Modern period, earlier periods, or even later periods, visit the Victoria & Albert Website, and simply search! http://collections.vam.ac.uk/
  • For a discussion of the chemise and other undergarments, read C. Willet and P. Cunnington, The History of Underclothes,
  • AND Denis Bruna, Fashioning the Body,
  • For inventories of courtesans, read Tessa Storey, Carnal Commerce in Counter-Reformation Rome

Mary Magdalene

  • To see the material in this article, visit the British Library, or view their archive online at http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=1&dstmp=1553354878414&vid=IAMS_VU2&fromLogin=true
  • For an article on the visibility of prostitutes in Counter-Reformation Rome, read "Seen and known: prostitutes in the cityscape of late-sixteenth-century Rome"Elizabeth S. Cohen Source: Renaissance Studies, Vol. 12, No. 3

 

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