Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice - Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 15571789

Informationen zum Autor Joanne M. Ferraro is a professor of history at San Diego State University and has written widely on the history of family and sexual relations in early modern Italy. She is the author of Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice and Family and Public Life in Brescia, 1580–1650: The Foundations of Power in the Venetian State . Zusammenfassung In uncovering these hidden sex crimes! Ferraro exposes the further abuse of women by both the men who perpetrated these illegal acts and the courts that prosecuted them.

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• Authors: Joanne M Ferraro, Joanne M. Ferraro, Joanne M. (Professor and Chair of History Ferraro, Joanne Marie Ferraro
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.01.2009
• EAN: 9780801889875
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8987-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories