Husbands, wives, and concubines : marriage, family, and social order in sixteenth-century Verona /
"Peopled by characters from across the social spectrum of the city of Verona and its contado, Emlyn Eisenach moves between stories about specific individuals - serving girls seeking honorable marriage through the unlikely route of concubinage, peasant men in search of independence from their fa...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Kirksville, Mo. :
Truman State University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Sixteenth century essays & studies ;
v. 69. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : family order and patriarchal order
- 1. Patriarchal ideology and the domestication of authority
- 2. Two styles of wedding ritual : brides with fathers and brides without fathers
- 3. Strategic uses of clandestine marriage
- 4. Tenere a sua posta : concubinage in Verona
- 5. Marriage dissolution and honor
- 6. Conclusions.
