Informal marriages in early modern Venice:

Conditions of the marriage market and sexual culture, and the needs of wealthy families and their members created social tensions in the late sixteenth and early-seventeenth century Venice. This study details these tensions and discusses concubinage- a long-term, sexual, non-marital union - as an al...

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Main Author: Byars, Jana (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2019
Edition:First published
Series:Routledge research in gender and history
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Summary:Conditions of the marriage market and sexual culture, and the needs of wealthy families and their members created social tensions in the late sixteenth and early-seventeenth century Venice. This study details these tensions and discusses concubinage- a long-term, sexual, non-marital union - as an alternate family model that soothed them by meeting the needs of families and individuals in a manner that did not offend the sensibilities of the authorities or other Venetians. Concubinage was quite common, and the Venetian community regularly accepted concubinaries, concubinal relationships, and the offspring concubinage produced
Physical Description:x, 181 Seiten
ISBN:9780367027117

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