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Women, Family and Ritual in Renaissance Italy
Women Family and Ritual in Renaissance Italy
Author: Christiane Klapisch-Zuber
Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, a brilliant historian of the Annales school, skillfully uncovers the lives of ordinary Italians of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Tuscans in particular, young and old, rich, middle-class, and poor. From the extraordinarily detailed records kept by Florentine tax collectors and the equally precise ricordanze...  more » (household accounts with notations of events great and small), Klapisch-Zuber draws a living picture of the Tuscan household. We learn, for example, how children were named, how wet nurses were engaged, how marriages were negotiated and celebrated. A wealth of other sources are tapped?including city statutes, private letters, philosophical works on marriage, paintings?to determine the social status of women. Klapisch-Zuber reveals how women, in their roles as daughters, wives, sisters, and mothers, were largely subject to a family system that needed them but valued them little.
ISBN-13: 9780226439259
ISBN-10: 0226439259
Pages: 368
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Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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