Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice

✍ Scribed by Joanne M. Ferraro

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 240
• Series: Studies in the History of Sexuality
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Based on a fascinating body of previously unexamined archival material, this book brings to life the lost voices of ordinary Venetians during the age of Catholic revival. Looking at scripts that were brought to the city's ecclesiastical courts by spouses seeking to annul their marriage vows, this book opens up the emotional world of intimacy and conflict, sexuality, and living arrangements that did not fit normative models of marriage.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 14
Venetian Money......Page 16
Map of Venice......Page 18
Introduction:Reading Texts and Building Context......Page 22
1 A Snapshop of Venice at the Twilight of the Renaissance......Page 34
2 Perilous Scripts, Forced Unions, and Ragged Wedding Nights......Page 52
3 Bedtime Stories......Page 88
4 Concubines and Courtesans in the Courts......Page 124
5 Tales of Violence, Hunger, and Betrayal......Page 138
6 A Woman Who Knows How to Take Care of Herself Well: Tales from the Dowry Wars......Page 154
Conclusion......Page 174
Notes......Page 180
Bibliography......Page 210
A......Page 226
B......Page 227
C......Page 228
D......Page 229
G......Page 231
I......Page 232
M......Page 233
P......Page 235
S......Page 236
V......Page 238
Z......Page 240