Informal Marriages in Early Modern Venice

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-367-02711-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 336 mm, Gewicht: 432 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Gender and History

Conditions of the marriage market and sexual culture, and the needs of wealthy families and their members created social tensions in the late sixteenth and early-seventeenth century Venice. This study details these tensions and discusses concubinage– a long-term, sexual, non-marital union - as an alternate family model that soothed them by meeting the needs of families and individuals in a manner that did not offend the sensibilities of the authorities or other Venetians. Concubinage was quite common, and the Venetian community regularly accepted concubinaries, concubinal relationships, and the offspring concubinage produced.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Byars, Jana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Concubinaries 3. Authorities 4. Family 5. Individuals 6. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Jana Byars is an independent scholar based in Amsterdam.