| Description |
xvii, 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Sixteenth century essays & studies ; v. 57 |
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Sixteenth century essays & studies ; v. 57.
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| Note |
Proceedings of a meeting held in Trento and Rovereto, Italy, Oct. 8-11, 1997. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Women's history and social history: are structures necessary? / Merry Wiesner-Hanks -- The Querelle des femmes as a cultural studies paradigm / Margarete Zimmermann -- Grammar in Arcadia / Gabriele Beck-Busse -- The girl and the hourglass: periodization of women's lives in western preindustrial societies / Silvana Seidel Menchi -- Getting back the dowry: Venice, c. 1360-1530 / Stanley Chojnacki -- Daughters, mothers, wives, and widows: women as legal persons / Thomas Kuehn -- Women married elsewhere: gender and citizenship in Italy / Julius Kirshner -- "Saints" and "witches": in early modern Italy: stepsisters or strangers? / Anne Jacobson Schutte -- The dimensions of the cloister: enclosure, constraint, and protection in seventeenth-century Italy / Francesca Medioli -- The third status / Gabriella Zarri -- "Non lo volevo per marito: in modo alcuno": forced marriages, generational conflicts, and the limits of patriarchal power in early modern Venice, c. 1580-1680 / Daniela Hacke -- Becoming a mother in the: seventeenth century: the experience of a Roman noblewoman / Marina d'Amelia -- Space, time, and the power of aristocratic wives in Yorkist and early Tudor England, 1450-1550 / Barbara J. Harris -- Eighteenth-century marriage contracts: linking legal and gender history / Gunda Barth-Scalmani -- En-gendering selfhood: defining differences and forging identities in early modern Europe / Kristin Eldyss Sorensen Zapalac -- Construction of masculinity and male identity in personal testimonies: Hans Von Schweinichen (1552-1616) in his Memorial / Heide Wunder. |
| Subject |
Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 -- Congresses.
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Women -- Europe -- History -- Congresses.
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Women -- Europe -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Schutte, Anne Jacobson.
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Kuehn, Thomas, 1950-
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Seidel Menchi, Silvana.
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| Running Title |
Time, space & women's lives |
| ISBN |
0943549906 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780943549903 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0943549825 (alk. paper) |
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9780943549828 (alk. paper) |
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