Law, Family, and Women
Subtitle: Toward a Legal Anthropology of Renaissance Italy
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: June 15, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780226457642
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Family & relationships; Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law; Women's studies; Private Law; History; History - General History; History: World; Italy; Europe - Italy; Renaissance; Women's Studies - History; History / Renaissance
First sentence: Long relegated to an intermediate position in the presumed progression from violent self-help to the sophisticated machinery of a state-run judicial system, arbitration seemed to hold little historical interest.