Women and Men in Renaissance Venice Twelve Essays on Patrician Society

Name: Women and Men in Renaissance Venice Twelve Essays on Patrician Society
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ISBN: 9780801863950

ISBN-10: 0801863953

ISBN-13: 9780801863950

Edition: 2000

Authors: Stanley Chojnacki

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In Women and Men in Renaissance Venice Stanley Chojnacki explores the central role played by women in holding Venetian patrician society together. Family relations, marriages, and dowries were the areas in which women interacted dynamically with men. The three parts of the book discuss the involvement of the state in those interactions; the social and economic consequences for women; and their unexpectedly varied consequences for men of the patriciate. The society Chojnacki describes is at once socially complex and highly regulated. On the one hand, women of the Venetian nobility, like patrician women in other cities, were subordinate to their fathers and husbands. But unlike their…

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List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 4/3/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Family and State, Women and Men



The State, Its Institutions, and Gender



Gender and the Early Renaissance State



Marriage Regulation in Venice, 1420-1535



From Trousseau to Groomgift



Getting Back the Dowry



Women, Marriage, and Motherhood



Patrician Women in Early Renaissance Venice



Dowries and Kinsmen



The Power of Love: Wives and Husbands



"The Most Serious Duty": Motherhood, Gender, and Patrician Culture



Varieties of Masculinity



Measuring Adulthood: Adolescence and Gender



Kinship Ties and Young Patricians



Political Adulthood



Subaltern Patriarchs: Patrician Bachelors


Manuscript Sources and Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography


Index