Thomas Kuehn

Family and Gender in Renaissance Italy, 1300-1600

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies family life and gender within Italy through the lens of law and legal disputes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 806g
• ISBN-13: 9781107008779
• ISBN-10: 1107008778
• Artikelnr.: 48032550

Autorenporträt

Thomas Kuehn has a PhD from the University of Chicago, and has been teaching at Clemson University, South Carolina since 1981. He has published four books: Emancipation in Late Medieval Florence (1982), Law, Family, and Women (1991), Illegitimacy in Renaissance Florence (2002), and Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence (2008), which won the Marraro prize of the American Historical Association and was made possible by a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. Kuehn has also published over forty articles and book chapters.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of jurists
Consilia
Statutes
Introduction. Families, culture, and law in Renaissance Italy, 1300¿1600
1. Family in law and culture
2. Gender in law and culture
3. Family life and the laws
4. Household: marriage and married life
5. Inheritance: intestacy
6. Inheritance: testaments
7. Paternalism: family and state
8. Crisis of family and succession?
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.