Through his research on the status of women in Florence and other Italian cities, Julius Kirshner helped to establish the socio-legal history of women in late medieval and Renaissance Italy and challenge the idea that Florentine women had an inferior legal position and civic status. In Marriage, Dowry, and Citizenship in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy, Kirshner collects nine important essays which address these issues in Florence and the cities of rthern and central Italy. Using a cross-disciplinary approach that draws on the methodologies of both social and legal history, the essays in this collection present a wealth of examples of daughters, wives, and widows acting as full-fledged social and legal actors. Revised and updated to reflect current scholarship, the essays in Marriage, Dowry, and Citizenship in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy appear alongside an extended introduction which situates them within the broader field of Renaissance legal history.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
ISBN-10
1442614218
ISBN-13
9781442614215
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209450838
Product Key Features
Author
Julius Kirshner
Format
Trade Paperback (US), Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History: Specific Subjects
Type
Textbook
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Toronto
Series Title
Toronto Studies in Medieval Law
Content Note
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Author Biography
Julius Kirshner ISA Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Chicago.