Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy Paperback / softback
by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Lydia G. Cochrane
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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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:354 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:15/06/1987
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- ISBN:9780226439266
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:354 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:15/06/1987
- Category:
- ISBN:9780226439266