Women, Sex and Marriage in Early Modern Venice
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Arcangela Tarabotti
Author_Daniela Hacke
Avogadori Di Comun
Avogaria Di Comun
Broken Marriage Promises
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confessionalisation
Conjugal Cohabitation
Conjugal Household
court
De Cleves
Di Comun
Domestic Patriarchy
early modern Venetian gender norms
Early Modern Venice
ecclesiastical courts
Ecclesiastical Judge
Ecclesiastical Tribunal
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gender relations
Marital Conjugality
Marital Disputes
marital litigation
Marital Plans
Marriage Promise
Married Woman
patriarchal
patriarchal authority
Patriarchal Court
Related Sexual Offences
Slovenly Woman
social control history
Strict Parental Rule
Tridentine Decrees
Venetian Patriarch
Younger Man
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- ISBN 9780754607632
- Weight: 582g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Nov 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Women, Sex, and Marriage in Early Modern Venice is the first study to investigate systematically the moral policies of both Church and State in the age of Counter-Reformation confessionalisation in Venice. Examining ecclesiastical and civil lawsuits related to illicit sex, broken marriage promises and disrupted marriages of artisan and ordinary women and men, Daniela Hacke can convincingly show how central sexual morality was to the patriarchal society of sixteenth and seventeenth century Venice. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, the author skilfully reconstructs what gender difference meant in daily life, in courtship rituals, marital disputes, and in sexual relations. In the streets and in the courts, women and men fought not only over proper gender behaviour within and outside marriage, but also about the meaning of conjugality and of domestic patriarchy. Neighbours played an active role in mediating between distressed partners and between children and parents. Their interventions and perceptions reveal much about the moral values and the networks of support within a fascinatingly heterogeneous community such as early modern Venice. The study makes important contributions to the fields of gender history, social history and the history of crime and sexuality.
Daniela Hacke, University of Zurich, Switzerland
