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Zusatztext 'Dr Hacke makes an important contribution to gender and legal studies and to church history... a significant contribution to methodology in gender studies! to early modern legal studies! to our understanding of the Church's post-Tridentine framing of marriage as a Christian institution! and to early modern Venetian society.' Church History Informationen zum Autor Daniela Hacke Klappentext This is the first book to investigate systematically the roles of Church and State in stabilising moral order after the Catholic Reform. It focuses on Venice, examining how civil and ecclesiastical courts dealt with conflicts related to marriage and sex, in an effort to enforce their vision of a morally ordered society. Zusammenfassung This is the first book to investigate systematically the roles of Church and State in stabilising moral order after the Catholic Reform. It focuses on Venice, examining how civil and ecclesiastical courts dealt with conflicts related to marriage and sex, in an effort to enforce their vision of a morally ordered society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Venice and its tribunals; The Church and marital disputes: Marital litigation and the patriarchal court; Generational conflicts; Marital discord; Sexuality, the body, and unstable masculinities; The state and crimes related to marriage: The sinful city; The threat to conjugal households: adultery and bigamy; Conclusion; Index.
