Research Catalog

Title

Law, family & women : toward a legal anthropology of Renaissance Italy / Thomas Kuehn.

Author

Kuehn, Thomas, 1950-

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991.

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Description

xiii, 415 p.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

Law, family, and women.

Subject

• Geschichte 1400-1500
• Geschichte 1450-1600
• Geschichte 1300-1600
• Law > Florence > History
• Dispute resolution (Law) > Florence > History
• Women > History. > Florence
• Families > Florence > History
• Famille > Histoire. > Florence
• Femmes > Histoire. > lorence
• Law > Florence > History and criticism
• Family > legislation & jurisprudence
• Women > legislation & jurisprudence
• Law
• Florence (Italy)

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-399) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

0226457621 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^91013341^//r92

OCLC

• 23462593
• SCSB-10352948

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library