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Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society
Stanley Chojnacki
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Paperback. Because limited family resources favored some daughters' marriage prospects at the expense of their sisters', the family and marriage practices of the Venetian nobles led to a range of vocations for women, as well as for men. Num Pages: 384 pages, 2, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 614.
In Women and Men in Renaissance Venice Stanley Chojnacki explores the central role played by women in holding Venetian patrician society together. Family relations, marriages, and dowries were the areas in which women interacted dynamically with men. The three parts of the book discuss the involvement of the state in those interactions; the social and economic consequences for women; and their unexpectedly varied consequences for men of the patriciate. The society Chojnacki describes is at once socially complex and highly regulated. On the one hand, women of the Venetian nobility, like patrician women in other cities, were subordinate to ... Read more
In Women and Men in Renaissance Venice Stanley Chojnacki explores the central role played by women in holding Venetian patrician society together. Family relations, marriages, and dowries were the areas in which women interacted dynamically with men. The three parts of the book discuss the involvement of the state in those interactions; the social and economic consequences for women; and their unexpectedly varied consequences for men of the patriciate. The society Chojnacki describes is at once socially complex and highly regulated. On the one hand, women of the Venetian nobility, like patrician women in other cities, were subordinate to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
386
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801863950
SKU
V9780801863950
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About Stanley Chojnacki
Stanley Chojnacki is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Reviews for Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society
Stanley Chojnacki's distinctive views of the Venetian family have illuminated the gender and family history of Renaissance Italy since the inception of this field in the early 1970s... Unified by a reflective introduction, the collection offers a powerful vision of kinship and marriage in Renaissance Venice.
P. Renee Baernstein Journal of Modern History 2004 The discussion is detailed and ... Read more
P. Renee Baernstein Journal of Modern History 2004 The discussion is detailed and ... Read more