Thomas Kuehn

Family and Gender in Renaissance Italy, 1300-1600 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book studies family life and gender broadly within Italy, not just one region or city, from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Paternal control of the household was paramount in Italian life at this time, with control of property and even marital choices and career paths laid out for children and carried out from beyond the grave by means of written testaments. However, the reality was always more complex than a simple reading of local laws and legal doctrines would seem to permit, especially when there were no sons to step forward as heirs. Family disputes provided an opening for legal ambiguities to redirect property and endow women with property and means of control. This book uses the decisions of lawyers and judges to examine family dynamics through the lens of law and legal disputes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108138222
• Artikelnr.: 49047365

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.