Kuehn, Thomas. Family and gender in Renaissance Italy, 1300-1600

Folger bibliographic ID: 352295
Folger call number: KKH540 .K84 2017
Folger holdings ID: 500921

"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"--

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-376) and index

Contents

Introduction : families, culture, and law in renaissance Italy, 1300-1600 -- Family in law and culture -- Gender in law and culture -- Family life and the laws -- Household : marriage and married life -- Inheritance : intestacy -- Inheritance : testaments -- Paternalism : family and state -- Crisis of family and succession?

Extended title: Family and gender in Renaissance Italy, 1300-1600 / Thomas Kuehn, Clemson University

Domestic relations HISTORY / Europe / General Italy

author: Kuehn, Thomas, 1950-