232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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Throughout history, marriage has been used as a method of creating and strengthening bonds between elites and the societies over which they ruled. Nowhere is this more apparent than in early modern Venice, where members of the patriciate looked to marital alliances with outsider brides to help maintain their position and social distinction in a fluid society. This book explores the parameters of... Read more
ChapterOne Noble Status and Social Differentiation in Early Modern Europe; chapterTwo The Avogaria di Comun and the Prove di Nobiltà ; chapterThree Outsider Brides and Their Families; chapterFour Huomini Civili and Patrician Marriage; chapterFive The Social Dimensions of Acceptability; chapterSix Concubinage and Natural Daughters; chapterSeven Gender and Honourable and Dishonourable Behaviour; chapterEight Marriage and the Patriciate; conclusion Conclusion;
Biography
Alexander Cowan is Senior Lecturer and Research Co-ordinator in History at Northumbria University, UK.
’... a very thoughtful, lucid and suggestive book that should inspire further research into the relationship between gender, marriage and social mobility in early modern Europe.’ Parergon ’[Cowan] provides a well-researched study that provides a nuanced view of marriage patterns and sexual mores among the Venetian elite.’ Sixteenth Century Journal
