Women, Family and Society in Medieval Europe

by Herlihy, David; Molho, A.

• ISBN13: 9781571810243
• ISBN10: 1571810242
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-03-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. v
Introduction	p. ix
Editorial Note	p. xx
	p. 1
My Life in the Profession	p. 3
	p. 11
The Towns of Northern Italy	p. 13
Did Women Have a Renaissance? a Reconsideration	p. 33
The Natural History of Mmedieval Women	p. 57
Women's Work in the Towns of Traditional Europe	p. 69
Making Sense of Incest: Women and the Marriage Rules of the Early Middle Ages	p. 96
	p. 111
Family	p. 113
Symmetry, Structure, and Sentiment	p. 135
The Family and Religious Ideologies in Medieval Europe	p. 154
Santa Caterina and San Bernardino Their Teachings on the Family	p. 174
The Florentine Merchant Family of the Middle Ages	p. 193
Medieval Children	p. 215
	p. 245
Biology and History: Suggestions for a Dialogue	p. 247
Age, Property, and Career in Medieval Society	p. 261
Society, Court and Culture in Sixteenth-Century Mantua	p. 279
City and Countryside in Renaissance Tuscany	p. 296
The Problem of the "Return to the Land" in Tuscan Economic History of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries	p. 314
Tuscan Names, 1200-1530	p. 330
The Rulers of Florence, 1282-1530	p. 353
Appendix: A Social and Professional Profile	p. 381
Index	p. 393
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