Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy
University of Chicago Press, 1987
Cloth: 978-0-226-43925-9 | Paper: 978-0-226-43926-6
Library of Congress Classification HQ1149.I8K57 1985
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.094551
Cloth: 978-0-226-43925-9 | Paper: 978-0-226-43926-6
Library of Congress Classification HQ1149.I8K57 1985
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.094551
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 (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.
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