Husbands, Wives, and Concubines : : Marriage, Family, and Social Order in Sixteenth-Century Verona /

Husbands, Wives, and Concubines : : Marriage, Family, and Social Order in Sixteenth-Century Verona / / Emlyn Eisenach.

Emlyn Eisenach uses a wide range of sources, including the richly detailed and previously unexplored records of nearly two hundred marriage-related disputes from the bishop's court of Verona, to illuminate family and social relations in early modern northern Italy. Arguing against the common em...

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Eisenach, Emlyn,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2004
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies ; 69
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Family Order and Patriarchal Order
  • 1 Patriarchal Ideology and the Domestication of Authority
  • 2 Two Styles of Wedding Ritual Brides With Fathers and Brides Without Fathers
  • 3 Strategic Uses of Clandestine Marriage
  • 4 Tenere a SUA Posta Concubinage in Verona
  • 5 Marriage Dissolution and Honor
  • 6 Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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