Gender and Family Networks in Early Modern Italy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moran, Megan.

Series:

Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World Series

Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World Series ; v.27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Italy--Florence--16th century.

Families.

Social networks--Italy--Florence--16th century.

Social networks.

Upper class families--Italy--Florence--History--16th century.

Upper class families.

Women--Italy--Florence--16th century.

Women.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Women from the Ricasoli and Spinelli families formed a wide variety of social networks within and beyond Florence through their letters as they negotiated interpersonal relationships and lineage concerns to actively contribute to their families in early modern Italy. Women were located at the center of social networks through their work in bridging their natal and marital families, cultivating commercial contacts, negotiating family obligations and the demands of religious institutions, facilitating introductions for family and friends, and forming political patronage ties. This book argues that a network model offers a framework of analysis in which to deconstruct patriarchy as a single system of institutionalized dominance in early modern Italy. Networks account for female agency as an interactive force that shaped the kinships ties, affective relationships, material connections, and political positions of these elite families as women constructed their own narratives and negotiated their own positions in family life.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Family Trees

Note on Florentine Currency, Units of Measure, and Dates

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Marriage and Family Authority: Wives, Mothers, and Widows

2. Siblings and Family Ties: Sisters, Brothers, and Half-Siblings

3. Secular and Sacred Networks : Between Convent Communities and Family Life

4. Amicizia e Famiglia: Female Friendship and Sociability

5. The Politics of Social Networking: Gender, Family Strategy , and Political Culture

Conclusion

Appendix: Family Trees

Index

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-003-69637-6

1-04-078386-4

90-485-3525-5

9781003696377

OCLC:

1491308439