Marriage, Dowry, and Citizenship in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
Julius Kirshner
University of Toronto Press
<p>Through his research on the status of women in Florence and other Italian cities, Julius Kirshner helped to establish the socio-legal history of women in late medieval and Renaissance Italy and challenge the idea that Florentine women had an inferior legal position and civic status.</p><p>In <em>Marriage, Dowry, and Citizenship in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy</em>, Kirshner collects nine important essays which address these issues in Florence and the cities of northern and central Italy. Using a cross-disciplinary approach that draws on the methodologies of both social and legal history, the essays in this collection present a wealth of examples of daughters, wives, and widows acting as full-fledged social and legal actors.</p><p>Revised and updated to reflect current scholarship, the essays in <em>Marriage, Dowry, and Citizenship in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy </em>appear alongside an extended introduction which situates them within the broader field of Renaissance legal history.</p>