Women and Men in Renaissance Venice
Subtitle: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: February 29, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780801863950
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Gender studies; c 1000 CE to c 1500; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; Man-woman relationships; History - General History; Women's Studies - History; History: World; Italy; Marriage; Europe - Italy; Renaissance; History / Europe / General; History; Family; Venice
First sentence: THE ESSAYS GATHERED in this book were written over a quarter of a century, from the early 1970s to the late 1990s, a time in which the way historians study the society of late medieval and Renaissance Italy was transformed by attention to gender and the experience of women.