Informal Marriages in Early Modern Venice
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Author_Jana Byars
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concubinage
concubinage studies
Concubinal Relationship
early modern sexuality
Early Modern Venice
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family structure history
Free Women
gender relations research
Greater Family Unit
Holy Office
illegitimate offspring
Informal Marriages
Informal Union
kinship systems Europe
Larger Families
Legitimate Offspring
Married Woman
non-marital union
non-marital unions in Renaissance Italy
Patrician Men
Pietro Paolo
Secret Marriage
social norms Venice
Venetian Authorities
Venetian Families
Venetian Government
Venetian Nobility
Venetian Noble Families
Venetian Patrician
Venetian patrician families
Young Man
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- ISBN 9780367584207
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Conditions of the marriage market and sexual culture, and the needs of wealthy families and their members created social tensions in the late sixteenth and early-seventeenth century Venice. This study details these tensions and discusses concubinage– a long-term, sexual, non-marital union - as an alternate family model that soothed them by meeting the needs of families and individuals in a manner that did not offend the sensibilities of the authorities or other Venetians. Concubinage was quite common, and the Venetian community regularly accepted concubinaries, concubinal relationships, and the offspring concubinage produced.
Jana Byars is an independent scholar based in Amsterdam.
