Title: Law, family & women : toward a legal anthropology of Renaissance Italy /
Authors: Kuehn, Thomas, 1950-
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Law Italy Florence History.; Dispute resolution (Law) Italy Florence History.; Women Legal status, laws, etc. Italy Florence History.; Families Italy Florence History.; Famille Droit Italie Florence Histoire.; Femmes Statut juridique Italie lorence Histoire.; Law Italy Florence History and criticism.; Family legislation & jurisprudence.; Women legislation & jurisprudence.
Contents: Part one : Law. Law and arbitration in Renaissance Florence -- Dispute processing in the Renaissance : some Florentine examples -- Conflicting conceptions of property in Quattrocento Florence : a dispute over ownership in 1425-26. Part two : Family. Honor and conflict in a fifteenth-century Florentine family -- A reconsideration of self-discipline impacts among the Peruzzi of Florence -- Reading between the patrilines : Leon Battista Alberti's Della Famiglia in light of his illegitimacy -- "As if conceived within a legitimate marriage" : a dispute concerning legitimation in Quattrocento Florence. Part three : Women. Women, marriage, and Patria Potestas in late medieval Florence -- "Cum Consensu Mundualdi" : legal guardianship of women in Quattrocento Florence -- Ambiguities of female inheritance ideology in the Renaissance -- Appendix : examples of arbitration.