Law, family & women : toward a legal anthropology of Renaissance Italy /
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| Author / Creator: | Kuehn, Thomas, 1950- |
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| Edition: | Paperback ed. |
| Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994, c1991. |
| Description: | xiii, 415 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7238640 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1. Law
- 1. Law and Arbitration in Renaissance Florence
- 2. Dispute Processing in the Renaissance: Some Florentine Examples
- 3. Conflicting Conceptions of Property in Quattrocento Florence: A Dispute over Ownership in 1425-26
- Part 2. Family
- 4. Honor and Conflict in a Fifteenth-Century Florentine Family
- 5. A Reconsideration of Self-Disciplining Pacts among the Peruzzi of Florence
- 6. Reading between the Patrilines: Leon Battista Alberti'sDella Famigliain Light of His Illegitimacy
- 7. "As If Conceived within a Legitimate Marriage": A Dispute Concerning Legitimation in Quattrocento Florence
- Part 3. Women
- 8. Women, Marriage, and Patria Potestas in Late Medieval Florence
- 9. "Cum Consensu Mundualdi": Legal Guardianship of Women in Quattrocento Florence
- 10. Some Ambiguities of Female Inheritance Ideology in the Renaissance
- Appendix: Examples of Arbitration
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index