Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane and Cochrane, Lydia G.

Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane and Cochrane, Lydia G.

ISBN 10: 0226439267 / ISBN 13: 9780226439266

Published by University of Chicago Press, 1987

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane and Cochrane, Lydia G.
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226439267
• ISBN 13: 9780226439266
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, a brilliant historian of the Annales school, skillfully uncovers the lives of ordinary Italians of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Tuscans in particular, young and old, rich, middle-class, and poor. From the extraordinarily detailed records kept by Florentine tax collectors and the equally precise ricordanze (household accounts with notations of events great and small), Klapisch-Zuber draws a living picture of the Tuscan household. We learn, for example, how children were named, how wet nurses were engaged, how marriages were negotiated and celebrated. A wealth of other sources are tapped—including city statutes, private letters, philosophical works on marriage, paintings—to determine the social status of women. Klapisch-Zuber reveals how women, in their roles as daughters, wives, sisters, and mothers, were largely subject to a family system that needed them but valued them little.

About the Author

Lydia G. Cochrane has translated numerous books for the University of Chicago Press.