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- Title
PATRICIAN PURITY AND THE FEMALE PERSON IN EARLY RENAISSANCE VENICE.
- Authors
CHOJNACKI, Stanley
- Abstract
This essay studies the Venetian patriciate's enforcement of its exclusiveness and superior status by focusing on the purity and social standing on the women of the class. It begins by reviewing legislation that through the early Cinquecento laid down status requirements for wives of male nobles in order for their sons to be eligible for membership in the ruling class. It then examines two marriage trials before the ecclesiastical court in the mid-Quattrocento in which marriages contracted by young nobles were disputed by their families alleging the inferior status and questionable chastity of the wives.
- Subjects
ITALY; PATRICIANS (Rome); ARISTOCRACY (Social class); SOCIAL history; RENAISSANCE; PURITY &; Danger (Book); HISTORY; SOCIAL conditions of women
- Publication
Acta Histriae, 2015, Vol 23, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1318-0185
- Publication type
Article