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Marriage, manners and mobility in ealry modern Venice / Alexander Cowan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cowan, Alexander.
- Series:
- Historical urban studies.
- Historical urban studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marriage--Italy--Venice--History.
- Marriage.
- Social mobility--Italy--Venice--History.
- Social mobility.
- Social classes--Italy--Venice--History.
- Social classes.
- Elite (Social sciences)--Italy--Venice--History.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Venice (Italy)--Social conditions--16th century.
- Venice (Italy).
- Venice (Italy)--Social conditions--17th century.
- Venice (Italy)--Social life and customs--16th century.
- Venice (Italy)--Social life and customs--17th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (228 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Throughout history, marriage has been used as a method of creating and strengthening bonds between society's ruling elites. Nowhere is this more apparent than in early modern Venice, where members of the urban patrician class looked to marital alliances to help maintain their position and social distinction in a fluid society. This book explores these social relationships and the ways in which they were mediated through the links created by marriage. It looks at the changing composition of the Venetian ruling elite during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, examining the complex relations
- Contents:
- Noble status and social differentiation in early modern Europe
- The Avogaria di Comun and the Prove de Nobilta
- Outsider brides and their families
- Huomini civili and patrician marriage
- The social dimensions of acceptability
- Concubines and natural daughters
- Gender and honourable, and dishonourable behaviour
- Marriage and the patriciate.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-201) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-59402-1
- 1-317-10027-1
- 1-317-10026-3
- 1-281-20841-8
- 9786611208417
- 0-7546-8681-7
- 9781315594026
- OCLC:
- 318668294
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