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- Title
Wives and Goods in the Venetian Palazzo.
- Authors
Chojnacki, Stanley
- Abstract
Venetian patrician wives of the late Middle Ages brought to their marriages material goods and family loyalty, both vitally important to the prosperity of conjugal families. The crucial resource was the dowry. During the marriage it sustained the family economy under the husband's administration. Afterward, as the wife's inherited property, it returned to her, supporting her widowhood and benefiting her children and kin. The economic connection established by the dowry, which included a corredo, a gift to the groom, encouraged collaboration between families, demonstrated in spouses' appointment of both agnates and affines as testamentary executors. Moreover, accompanying the fi nancial contents of the dowry were trousseaux consisting of clothing and furnishings for the bride, bestowed by her family and supplemented by the groom. These items further enhanced the relationships forged in marriage by giving visual testimony of a married woman's position as the bridge between her natal and marital families.
- Subjects
EXECUTORS &; administrators; PATRICIANS (Rome); MARRIED women; DOWRY; WIDOWHOOD; ECONOMICS; HISTORY; SOCIAL conditions of women
- Publication
Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, 2017, Vol 43, Issue 1, p104
- ISSN
0315-7997
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/hrrh.2017.430109