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Zusammenfassung Marriage in the European past was a controlled social institution: parents arranged marriages! the interests of the family were put before those of the individual! and women were expected to be married. This book sets out to explore the consequences of the institution of marriage! especially for women! and challenges many current historical assumptions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: issues in the history of marriage Trevor Dean and Kate Lowe; Part I. Ceremonies and Festivities: 1. Wedding finery in sixteenth-century Venice Patricia Allerston; 2. Secular brides and convent brides: wedding ceremonies in Italy during the Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Kate Lowe; 3. The rape of the Sabine women on Quattrocento marriage panels Jacqueline Musacchio; Part II. Intervention by Church and State: 4. Fathers and daughters: marriage laws and marriage disputes in Bologna and Italy, 1200-1500 Trevor Dean; 5. Marriage ceremonies and the church in Italy after 1215 David d'Avray; 6. Dowry and the conversion of the Jews in sixteenth-century Rome: competition between the church and the Jewish community Piet van Boxel; 7. Nobility, women and the state: marriage regulation in Venice, 1420-1535 Stanley Chojnacki; Part III. Patterns of Intermarriage: 8. Marriage, faction and conflict in sixteenth-century Italy: an example and a few questions Gérard Delille; 9. Marriage in the mountains: the Florentine territorial state, 1348-1500 Samuel Kline Cohn Jr; 10. Marriage and politics at the papal court in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Irene Fosi and Maria Antonietta Visceglia; Part IV. Consequences and Endings: 11. Bending the rules: marriage in Renaissance collections of biographies of famous women Stephen Kolsky; 12. Separations and separated couples in fourteenth-century Venice Linda Guzzetti; 13. Reconstructing the family: widowhood and remarriage in Tuscany in the early modern period Giulia Calvi.
