Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice

Zusatztext Highly serious and scholarly work. Klappentext Based on a fascinating body of previously unexamined archival material, this book brings to life the lost voices of ordinary Venetians during the age of Catholic revival. Looking at scripts that were brought to the city's ecclesiastical courts by spouses seeking to annul their marriage vows, this book opens up the emotional world of intimacy and conflict, sexuality, and living arrangements that did not fit normative models of marriage. Zusammenfassung Based on archival literature, 'Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice' brings to life the voices of ordinary Venetians and opens up their world of intimacy and conflict, sexuality, and living arrangements. Ferraro examines the scripts that spouses brought to the city's ecclesiastical court in order to annul their vows or achieve legal separation.

Product details

• Authors: Joanne M. Ferraro, Joanne M. (Professor of History Ferraro, Joanne Marie Ferraro
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2001
• EAN: 9780195144963
• ISBN: 978-0-19-514496-3
• No. of pages: 241
• Series: Studies in the History of Sexuality; Studies in the History of Sexu; Studies in the History of Sexuality
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous