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Record Nr.

UNINA9910148689203321

Autore

Eisenach Emlyn <1967->

Titolo

Husbands, Wives, and Concubines : Marriage, Family, and Social Order in Sixteenth-Century Verona / / Emlyn Eisenach

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kirksville, Mo : , : Truman State University Press, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

1-935503-44-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

Sixteenth century essays & studies ; ; volume 69

Disciplina

306.8109453409031

Soggetti

Marriage

Marriage - Italy - Verona - History - 16th century

History

Italy Verona

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-232) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1: Patriarchal Ideology and the Domestication of Authority""; ""2: Two Styles of Wedding Ritual""; ""3: Strategic Uses of Clandestine Marriage""; ""4: Tenere a Sua Posta""; ""5: Marriage Dissolution and Honor""; ""6: Conclusions""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

"Eisenach also evaluates the first half-century of religious reforms in Verona as the leading pre-Tridentine bishop Gian Matteo Giberti and his successors challenged common practices and understandings in sermons, treatises, confessionals, and court. Emphasizing the limitations of what the religious authorities could impose on the people, she explores how learned and popular notions of marriage, family, and gender shaped each other as they were put into action in the strategies of individual Veronese."--Jacket.

"Peopled by characters from across the social spectrum of the city of Verona and its contado, Emlyn Eisenach moves between stories about specific individuals - serving girls seeking honorable marriage through the unlikely route of concubinage, peasant men in search of independence from their fathers, and aristocratic wives seeking revenge against adulterous husbands - and broader analyses of social,



economic, and geographical patterns of behavior. She shows how Veronese at all social levels attempted to better their familial and personal fortunes by creatively molding wedding rituals to fit their particular circumstances, or engaging in the significant but until now little understood practices of concubinage, clandestine marriage, or informal marriage dissolution.