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Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy, Paperback / softback Book

Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, a brilliant historian of the Annales school, skillfully uncovers the lives of ordinary Italians of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Tuscans in particular, young and old, rich, middle-class, and poor.

From the extraordinarily detailed records kept by Florentine tax collectors and the equally precise ricordanze (household accounts with notations of events great and small), Klapisch-Zuber draws a living picture of the Tuscan household.

We learn, for example, how children were named, how wet nurses were engaged, how marriages were negotiated and celebrated.

A wealth of other sources are tapped—including city statutes, private letters, philosophical works on marriage, paintings—to determine the social status of women.

Klapisch-Zuber reveals how women, in their roles as daughters, wives, sisters, and mothers, were largely subject to a family system that needed them but valued them little.

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