Husbands, Wives, and Concubines: Marriage, Family, and Social Order in Sixteenth-Century Verona

by Emlyn Eisenach

Emlyn Eisenach uses a wide range of sources, including the richly detailed and previously unexplored records of nearly two hundred marriage-related disputes from the bishop's court of Verona, to illuminate family and social relations in early modern northern Italy. Arguing against the common emphasis on the growth of law and government in this period, her study emphasizes the fluidity of the principles that governed marriage and its dissolution, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931112347
• ISBN13: 9781931112345
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"