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Women, Sex and Marriage in Early Modern Venice (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Women, Sex and Marriage in Early Modern Venice (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
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Women, Sex, and Marriage in Early Modern Venice is the first study
to investigate systematically the moral policies of both Church and
State in the age of Counter-Reformation confessionalisation in
Venice. Examining ecclesiastical and civil lawsuits related to
illicit sex, broken marriage promises and disrupted marriages of
artisan and ordinary women and men, Daniela Hacke can convincingly
show how central sexual morality was to the patriarchal society of
sixteenth and seventeenth century Venice. Drawing on a wide range
of archival sources, the author skilfully reconstructs what gender
difference meant in daily life, in courtship rituals, marital
disputes, and in sexual relations. In the streets and in the
courts, women and men fought not only over proper gender behaviour
within and outside marriage, but also about the meaning of
conjugality and of domestic patriarchy. Neighbours played an active
role in mediating between distressed partners and between children
and parents. Their interventions and perceptions reveal much about
the moral values and the networks of support within a fascinatingly
heterogeneous community such as early modern Venice. The study
makes important contributions to the fields of gender history,
social history and the history of crime and sexuality.
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