Marriage, manners and mobility in early modern Venice

Marriage, manners and mobility in early modern Venice /

The case of Prudentia Bonzanino, an outsider asking for official permission to marry into a closed elite, illustrates many of the key issues discussed in this book. Her case takes us into the complex world of social relationships and the ways in which they were mediated through the links and created...

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Main Author: Cowan, Alexander
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2007
Series:Historical urban studies.
Subjects:
Marriage > Italy > Venice > History.
Social mobility > Italy > Venice > History.
Social classes > Italy > Venice > History.
Elite (Social sciences) > Italy > Venice > History.
Venice (Italy) > Social conditions > To 1797.
Venice (Italy) > Social life and customs > 16th century.
Venice (Italy) > Social life and customs > 17th century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.

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