Marriage, dowry, and citizenship in late medieval and Renaissance Italy
By: Julius Kirshner
Series: Toronto Studies in Medieval Law; Toronto studies in medieval law
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9781442614215
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Women; Dowry; Citizenship; Marriage law; Renaissance; Real property; History; Legal status, laws; Medieval Law
Description: 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.--
Notes: "The nine studies gathered in this volume appeared over a twenty-six-year period, from 1985 to 2011. Originally, they were published as contributions to volumes honoring the research and careers of colleagues and the proceedings of conferences held in Europe. Allowing for their diverse origins, the studies share a common focus on three interrelated subjects: marriage, women's property, and citizenship in medieval and Renaissance Italy (1200-1550)."--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-451) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Making and breaking betrothal contracts (Sponsalia) in late Trecento Florence / with Osvaldo Cavallar; title: Li Emergenti Bisogni Matrimoniali in Renaissance Florence; title: Materials for a gilded cage: nondotal assets in Florence, 1300-1500; title: The morning after: collecting Monte dowries in Renaissance Florence; title: The seven percent fund of Renaissance Florence / with Jacob Klerman; title: Wives' claims against insolvent husbands in late medieval Italy; title: Women married elsewhere: gender and citizenship in medieval Italy; title: Dowry, domicile, and citizenship in late medieval Florence; title: Pisa'a "long-arm" Gabella Dotis (1420-1525): issues, cases, legal opinions.