282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
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Women, Sex, and Marriage in Early Modern Venice is the first study to investigate systematically the moral policies of both Church and State in the age of Counter-Reformation confessionalisation in Venice. Examining ecclesiastical and civil lawsuits related to illicit sex, broken marriage promises and disrupted marriages of artisan and ordinary women and men, Daniela Hacke can convincingly show... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Venice and its tribunals; The Church and marital disputes: Marital litigation and the patriarchal court; Generational conflicts; Marital discord; Sexuality, the body, and unstable masculinities; The state and crimes related to marriage: The sinful city; The threat to conjugal households: adultery and bigamy; Conclusion; Index.
Biography
Daniela Hacke
'Dr Hacke makes an important contribution to gender and legal studies and to church history... a significant contribution to methodology in gender studies, to early modern legal studies, to our understanding of the Church's post-Tridentine framing of marriage as a Christian institution, and to early modern Venetian society.' Church History
