Author: Kuehn, Thomas
Title: Law, Family & Women: Toward a Legal Anthropology of Renaissance Italy
Description: Chicago, University of Chicago Press, (1991). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xiii, 415 pp. Textual tables. Minor rubbing, some light page-edge soil, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Law & Arbitration in Renaissance Florence; Dispute Processing in the Renaissance: Some Florentine Examples; Conflicting Conceptions of Property in Quattrocento Florence: A Dispute over Ownership in 1425-26; Honor & Conflict in a 15th-Century Florentine Family; A Reconsideration of Self-Disciplining Pacts among the Peruzzi of Florence; Reading between the Patrilines: Leon Battista Alberti's 'Della Famiglia' in the Light of his Illegitimacy; "As if Conceived within a Legitimate Marriage": A Dispute Concerning Legitimation in Quattrocento Florence; Women, Marriage & ' Patria Potestas' in Late Medieval Florence; "Cum Consensus Mundualdi": Legal Guardianship of Women in Quattrocento Florence; Some Ambiguities of Female Inheritance Ideology in the Renaissance; Appendix: Some Examples of Arbitration.

Keywords: Legal Anthropology, Renaissance Italy, Medieval Law, Quattrocento, Firenze, Family, Women, Social History, Florence