Women and Men in Renaissance Venice
Twelve Essays on Patrician Society
Seiten
2000
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-6269-4 (ISBN)
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-6269-4 (ISBN)
The author explores the central role played by women in holding Venetian patrician society together. The book explores women's involvment in family relations, marriages and dowries, the social and economic consequences for women and their varied consequences for men of the patriciate.
The author explores the central role played by women in holding Venetian patrician society together. Family relations, marriages, and dowries were the areas in which women interacted dynamically with men, and the three parts of the book discuss the involvement of the state in those interactions, the social and economic consequences for women, and their unexpectedly varied consequences for men of the patriciate. The society Stanley Chojnacki describes is at once socially complex and highly regulated. On the one hand, women of the Venetian nobility, like patrician women in other cities, were subordinate to their fathers and husbands, but unlike their counterparts elsewhere, Venetian patrician women exercised much control over their own wealth and property and were key players in family strategies. Thanks to advantageous state regulations regarding dowries and marriage practices, Venetian women influenced their fathers' financial and social choices, which in turn affected their fathers' and husbands' attitudes and behaviour towards them.
Because limited family resources favoured some daughters' marriage prospects at the expense of their sisters', the family and marriage practices of the Venetian nobles led to a range of vocations for women, as well as for men.
The author explores the central role played by women in holding Venetian patrician society together. Family relations, marriages, and dowries were the areas in which women interacted dynamically with men, and the three parts of the book discuss the involvement of the state in those interactions, the social and economic consequences for women, and their unexpectedly varied consequences for men of the patriciate. The society Stanley Chojnacki describes is at once socially complex and highly regulated. On the one hand, women of the Venetian nobility, like patrician women in other cities, were subordinate to their fathers and husbands, but unlike their counterparts elsewhere, Venetian patrician women exercised much control over their own wealth and property and were key players in family strategies. Thanks to advantageous state regulations regarding dowries and marriage practices, Venetian women influenced their fathers' financial and social choices, which in turn affected their fathers' and husbands' attitudes and behaviour towards them.
Because limited family resources favoured some daughters' marriage prospects at the expense of their sisters', the family and marriage practices of the Venetian nobles led to a range of vocations for women, as well as for men.
Stanley Chojnacki is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.5.2000 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 2 Line drawings, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Baltimore, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 680 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8018-6269-8 / 0801862698 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8018-6269-4 / 9780801862694 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
| Informationen gemäß Produktsicherheitsverordnung (GPSR) | |
| Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
aus dem Bereich
Geschichte einer wilden Handlung
Buch | Hardcover (2024)
C.H.Beck (Verlag)
CHF 47,60
