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Women, Family and Ritual in Renaissance Italy Book

Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, a brilliant historian of the Annales school, skillfully uncovers the lives of ordinary Italians of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Tuscans in particular, young and old, rich, middle-class, and poor. From the extraordinarily detailed records kept by Florentine tax collectors and the equally precise ricordanze (household accounts with notations of events great and small), Klapisch-Zuber draws a living picture of the Tuscan household. We learn, for example, how children were named, how wet nurses were engaged, how marriages were negotiated and celebrated. A wealth of other sources are tappedâ??including city statutes, private letters, philosophical works on marriage, paintingsâ??to determine the social status of women. Klapisch-Zuber reveals how women, in their roles as daughters, wives, sisters, and mothers, were largely subject to a family system that needed them but valued them little. Read More

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  • 0226439267
  • 9780226439266
  • Klapisch-Zuber
  • 1 June 1987
  • Chicago University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 338
  • New edition
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