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Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice - Couverture souple

Livre 4 sur 5: Studies in the History of Sexuality

Ferraro, Joanne M.

 
9780195144963: Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0195144961 ISBN 13 : 9780195144963
Editeur : Oxford University Press USA, 2001

Synopsis

This book brings to life the lost voices of ordinary Venetians during the age of Catholic revival. Looking at scripts that were brought to the city's ecclesiastical courts by spouses seeking to annul their marriage vows, this book opens up the emotional world of intimacy and conflict, sexuality, and living arrangments that did not fit normative models of marriage.

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Revue de presse

Ferraro has unearthed a fascinating group of stories and analyzed them with finesse. Her entire text is further enriched by the sense of humour she imparts to all her material. (Journal of Modern History)

This is an interesting study of an important Venetian institution, and of marriage in Catholic Europe after Trent. The author's exploration of what she calls 'court stories' also represents an invaluable contribution to current debates about the reading and meaning of historical documentation, or 'texts'. (History)

Ferraro's inclusion of gossip, gambling, dirty laundry, gift exchange and flirtatious dalliances takes us much closer to the principal concerns of Venetians in an age of Catholic reform. (Patricia Allerston, Times Literary Supplement)

A major contribution is made to the understanding of the personal lives and attitudes of Venetians in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (RIVISTA, The Journal of the British-Italian Society)

Highly serious and scholarly work. (RIVISTA, The Journal of the British-Italian Society)

Présentation de l'éditeur

Based on a fascinating body of previously unexamined archival material, this book brings to life the lost voices of ordinary Venetians during the age of Catholic revival. Looking at scripts that were brought to the city's ecclesiastical courts by spouses seeking to annul their marriage vows, this book opens up the emotional world of intimacy and conflict, sexuality, and living arrangments that did not fit normative models of marriage.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press USA
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0195144961
ISBN 13 
9780195144963
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
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