Family and Gender in Renaissance Italy, 1300-1600

This book studies family life and gender within Italy through the lens of law and legal disputes.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; List of jurists; Consilia; Statutes; Introduction. Families, culture, and law in Renaissance Italy, 1300-1600; 1. Family in law and culture; 2. Gender in law and culture; 3. Family life and the laws; 4. Household: marriage and married life; 5. Inheritance: intestacy; 6. Inheritance: testaments; 7. Paternalism: family and state; 8. Crisis of family and succession?; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Thomas Kuehn has a PhD from the University of Chicago, and has been teaching at Clemson University, South Carolina since 1981. He has published four books: Emancipation in Late Medieval Florence (1982), Law, Family, and Women (1991), Illegitimacy in Renaissance Florence (2002), and Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence (2008), which won the Marraro prize of the American Historical Association and was made possible by a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. Kuehn has also published over forty articles and book chapters.

Summary

This book explores the varied relationships within Italian families, specifically including paternal power, gender stereotypes, marriage, and inheritances, from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. It shows the importance of law to families during this time, and reveals how pliable law was in regards to gender.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Kuehn, Thomas (Clemson University Kuehn
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.03.2017
• EAN: 9781107008779
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00877-9
• No. of pages: 404
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Gender studies, gender groups, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600