Jutta Sperling / Shona Wray (ed.)

Gebundenes Buch

Across the Religious Divide

Women, Property, and Law in the Wider Mediterranean (ca. 1300-1800)

Herausgeber: Sperling, Jutta; Wray, Shona Kelly

Beschreibung

This volume introduces a unique comparative perspective to the complexities of gender relations in Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities by examining women's property rights in different societies across the entire medieval and early modern Mediterranean.

Autor

Jutta Sperling, Hampshire College. Her main publications include Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice 1550-1650 (1999) as well as articles on the abolition of clandestine marriages at the Council of Trent and on Portuguese women's property rights. Her current research interests focus on iconographies of lactation in Renaissance and Baroque art. Shona Kelly Wray, University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her research incorporates various aspects of the social history of fourteenth-century Bologna. She has published articles on women, family, and inheritance, notarial culture, the social experience of the Black Death, and peace and dispute settlements. Her first book, Communities and Crisis: Bologna during the Black Death, was published in 2009.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 613g
• ISBN-13: 9780415995863
• ISBN-10: 0415995868
• Artikelnr.: 27869508