Women and Men in Renaissance Venice

Twelve Essays on Patrician Society

By: Stanley Chojnacki

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Paperback | 15 April 2000

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In Women and Men in Renaissance Venice Stanley Chojnacki explores the central role played by women in holding Venetian patrician society together. Family relations, marriages, and dowries were the areas in which women interacted dynamically with men. The three parts of the book discuss the involvement of the state in those interactions; the social and economic consequences for women; and their unexpectedly varied consequences for men of the patriciate.

The society Chojnacki describes is at once socially complex and highly regulated. On the one hand, women of the Venetian nobility, like patrician women in other cities, were subordinate to their fathers and husbands. But unlike their counterparts elsewhere, Venetian patrician women exercised much control over their own wealth and property and were key players in family strategies. Thanks to advantageous state regulations regarding dowries and marriage practices, Venetian women influenced their fathers' financial and social choices, which in turn affected their fathers' and husbands' attitudes and behavior toward them. Because limited family resources favored some daughters' marriage prospects at the expense of their sisters', the family and marriage practices of the Venetian nobles led to a range of vocations for women, as well as for men.

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""An outstanding contribution to European history, Women and Men in Renaissance Venice deals with every aspect of gender and presents an enormously informative, scholarly, 'reader friendly,' and highly recommended introduction to male/female aspects of Venetian society and culture.""

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Family and State, Women and Men	p. 1
The State, Its Institutions, and Gender
Gender and the Early Renaissance State	p. 27
Marriage Regulation in Venice, 1420-1535	p. 53
From Trousseau to Groomgift	p. 76
Getting Back the Dowry	p. 95
Women, Marriage, and Motherhood
Patrician Women in Early Renaissance Venice	p. 115
Dowries and Kinsmen	p. 132
The Power of Love: Wives and Husbands	p. 153
"The Most Serious Duty": Motherhood, Gender, and Patrician Culture	p. 169
Varieties of Masculinity
Measuring Adulthood: Adolescence and Gender	p. 185
Kinship Ties and Young Patricians	p. 206
Political Adulthood	p. 227
Subaltern Patriarchs: Patrician Bachelors	p. 244
Manuscript Sources and Abbreviations	p. 257
Notes	p. 259
Bibliography	p. 345
Index	p. 363
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