A Cultural History of Marriage in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age

Professor Joanne M. Ferraro (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-35563-7 (ISBN)

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Why marry? The personal question is timeless. Yet the highly emotional desires of men and women during the period between 1450 and 1650 were also circumscribed by external forces that operated within a complex arena of sweeping economic, demographic, political, and religious changes. The period witnessed dramatic religious reforms in the Catholic confession and the introduction of multiple Protestant denominations; the advent of the printing press; European encounters and exchange with the Americas, North Africa, and southwestern and eastern Asia; the growth of state bureaucracies; and a resurgence of ecclesiastical authority in private life. These developments, together with social, religious, and cultural attitudes, including the constructed norms of masculinity, femininity, and sexuality, impinged upon the possibility of marrying. The nine scholars in this volume aim to provide a comprehensive picture of current research on the cultural history of marriage for the years between 1450 and 1650 by identifying both the ideal templates for nuptial unions in prescriptive writings and artistic representation and actual practices in the spheres of courtship and marriage rites, sexual relationships, the formation of family networks, marital dissolution, and the overriding choices of individuals over the structural and cultural constraints of the time.

A Cultural History of Marriage in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age presents an overview of the period with essays on Courtship and Ritual; Religion, State and Law; Kinship and Social Networks; the Family Economy; Love and Sex; the Breaking of Vows; and Representations of Marriage.

Joanne M. Ferraro is Albert W. Johnson Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at San Diego State University, USA. She is the author of Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice (2001), which won both the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Book Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies and the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Book Prize. She is also the author of Venice: History of the Floating City (2012), Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557- 1789 (2008) and Family and Public Life in Brescia, 1580-1650 (1993).

List of Illustrations
General Editor’s Preface, Joanne M. Ferraro (San Diego State University, USA)
Introduction, Joanne M. Ferraro (San Diego State University, USA)
1. Courtship and Ritual, Debra Kaplan (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
2. Religion, Cecilia Cristellon (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
3. State and Law, Elizabeth Marjorie Plummer (University of Arizona, USA)
4. The Ties That Bind, Anna Bellavitis (Rouen University, France)
5. The Family Economy, Jutta Sperling (Hampshire College, USA)
6. Love, Sex, and Sexuality, Sara F. Matthews-Grieco (Syracuse University in Florence, Italy)
7. Breaking Vows, Martin Ingram (University of Oxford, UK)
8. Representation, Andrea Bayer (Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA)
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.02.2023
Reihe/Serie	The Cultural Histories Series
Zusatzinfo	51 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-350-35563-1 / 1350355631
ISBN-13	978-1-350-35563-7 / 9781350355637
Zustand	Neuware