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.
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nuptial scenario, paid breast feeding, della divozione, fiorini larghi, uno vino, nuptial ritual, holy dolls, delle doti, communal statutes, matrimonial status, second given names, nursing parents, buoni costumi, synodal statutes, nuptial ring, nuptial rites, ring day, nursing couple, nel sec, multiple households, paternal kin Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Les Toscans, Middle Ages, Renaissance Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Santa Croce, Giovanni Morelli, New York, San Gallo, Marco Parenti, San Giovanni, Filippo Strozzi, Saint Joseph, Santa Maria Novella, Andrea Minerbetti, Black Death, Council of Trent, Moyen Age, Antonio Rustichi, Giovanni Niccolini, Luca da Panzano, Mapping Households, Medieval Italy, Pagolo Morelli, Paolo da Certaldo, Public Life New!
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nuptial scenario, paid breast feeding, della divozione, fiorini larghi, uno vino, nuptial ritual, holy dolls, delle doti, communal statutes, matrimonial status, second given names, nursing parents, buoni costumi, synodal statutes, nuptial ring, nuptial rites, ring day, nursing couple, nel sec, multiple households, paternal kin Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Les Toscans, Middle Ages, Renaissance Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Santa Croce, Giovanni Morelli, New York, San Gallo, Marco Parenti, San Giovanni, Filippo Strozzi, Saint Joseph, Santa Maria Novella, Andrea Minerbetti, Black Death, Council of Trent, Moyen Age, Antonio Rustichi, Giovanni Niccolini, Luca da Panzano, Mapping Households, Medieval Italy, Pagolo Morelli, Paolo da Certaldo, Public Life New!
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