Household and Lineage in Renaissance Florence: The Family Life of the Capponi, Ginori and Rucellai

by F.W. Kent

Professor Kent is concerned with one of the major questions posed by historical research on the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance: did these periods witness the nuclearization of the aristocratic family? Considering three celebrated and representative Florentine ottimati lineages, the author reconstructs the histories and activities of scores of their households for the period circa 1420-1550. The author describes the nuclear and extended households...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691052379
• ISBN13: 9780691052373
• Release Date: March 1977
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.