Through his research on the status of women in Florence and other Italian cities, Julius Kirshner helped to establish the socio-legal history of women in late medieval and Renaissance Italy and challenge the idea that Florentine women had an inferior legal position and civic status.
In Marriage, Dowry, and Citizenship in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy, Kirshner collects nine important essays which address these issues in Florence and the cities of northern and central Italy. Using a cross-disciplinary approach that draws on the methodologies of both social and legal history, the essays in this collection present a wealth of examples of daughters, wives, and widows acting as full-fledged social and legal actors.
Revised and updated to reflect current scholarship, the essays in Marriage, Dowry, and Citizenship in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy appear alongside an extended introduction which situates them within the broader field of Renaissance legal history.
By:
Julius Kirshner
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 153mm,
Spine: 27mm
Weight: 700g
ISBN: 9781442614215
ISBN 10: 1442614218
Series: Toronto Studies in Medieval Law
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 09 February 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction 1. Making and Breaking Betrothal Contracts (Sponsalia) in Late Trecento Florence (Osvaldo Cavallar and Julius Kirshner) 2. Li Emergenti Bisogni Matrimoniali in Renaissance Florence 3. Materials for a Gilded Cage: Nondotal Assets in Florence, 1300–1500 4. The Morning After: Collecting Monte Dowries in Renaissance Florence 5. The Seven Percent Fund of Renaissance Florence (Julius Kirshner and Jacob Klerman) 6. Wives’ Claims against Insolvent Husbands in Late Medieval Italy 7. Women Married Elsewhere: Gender and Citizenship in Medieval Italy 8. Dowry, Domicile, and Citizenship in Late Medieval Florence 9. Pisa’s ‘Long-Arm’ Gabella Dotis (1420–1525): Issues, Cases, Legal Opinions Original Publication Information / 000 Appendix 1. Ricordanze of Paolo d’Alessandro Sassetti Appendix 2. Formulario of Iacopo di ser Francesco Toschanelli Appendix 3. Two Consilia of Angelus de Ubaldis Appendix 4. Confessio dotis of Chirico di Giovanni of Florence Appendix 5. The Seven Percent Account of Lorenzo di Bonaccorso Pitti Appendix 6. Selected Jurists and Theologians
Julius Kirshner is an emeritus professor of Medieval and Renaissance History at the University of Chicago.
Reviews for Marriage, Dowry, and Citizenship in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
‘No respectable humanities library should be without it [Marriage, Dowry, and Citizenship].’ - DeLloyd J. Guth (Canadian Journal of History vol 52:02:2017)
