'Not carrying out the vile and mechanical arts': Touch as a measure of social distinction in early modern Venice

The City and the Senses: Urban Culture Since 1500

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 39-59

  Cowan, Alexander ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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