192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Conditions of the marriage market and sexual culture, and the needs of wealthy families and their members created social tensions in the late sixteenth and early-seventeenth century Venice. This study details these tensions and discusses concubinage– a long-term, sexual, non-marital union - as an alternate family model that soothed them by meeting the needs of families and individuals in a manner... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Concubinaries 3. Authorities 4. Family 5. Individuals 6. Conclusions
Biography
Jana Byars is an independent scholar based in Amsterdam.
