Women in the Streets: Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance ItalyJHU Press, 1996 M12 17 - 250 pages Charts changes in law, the structure and accessibility of the criminal courts, and the customs and mentalities that shaped women's lot, from infanticide to the control of sexual mores. "These seven essays on women, sex, violence, and piety in Renaissance Italy," writes historian Samuel Cohn Jr., "bespeak the darker side of the Renaissance and, in particular, the decline in Italian women's status from the late fourteenth century until the Counter Reformation visitations of the 1570s. In this sense, these essays run directly counter to Jacob Burckhardt's claim for Renaissance Italy, 'that women stood on a footing of perfect equality with men." Challenging conventional views of the history of women in the Italian Renaissance, Cohn examines the lives primarily of non-elite women and looks at their experiences in various city-states and regions, thus offering a different perspective from the history of aristocratic and well-to-do women in the large city-states. Drawing on a wide range of archival documentation, Cohn also relies on large sets of quantitative material to reveal a multifaceted view of women's social worlds not seen from the letters of patrician ladies or the prescriptive judgments of Renaissance moralists. Within the larger historical contexts of the Black Death, the growth of territorial states, and the Counter Reformation, Women in the Streets charts changes in law, the structure and accessibility of the criminal courts, and the customs and mentalities that shaped women's lot, from infanticide to the control of sexual mores. Ultimately, Cohn argues, women are the protagonists of this book, whether the issue is their support of other women or the resolution of conflict in the streets of Florence, the control of their own dowries or the salvation of their own souls. |
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Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy Samuel Kline Cohn. Women in the Streets ESSAYS ON SEX AND POWER IN RENAISSANCE ITALY Samuel K. Cohn Jr. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS Baltimore and London This One 729X - N36-11LZ 1996 ...
Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy Samuel Kline Cohn. Contents List of Figures and Tables ix Acknowledgments xi 1. The Social History of Women in the Renaissance I 2. Women in the Streets , Women in the Courts , in Early ...
Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy Samuel Kline Cohn. 7. Prosperity in the Countryside : The Price Women Paid 137 Notes 167 Bibliography 217 Index 241 Figures and Tables 5.1 5.2 5.3 Map Florentine Contado , VIII CONTENTS.
Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy Samuel Kline Cohn. Tables 2.I 2.2 4.I 5.1 5.2 7.1 7.2 7.3 Female Crime and Prosecution , 1344-1466 26 Female Crime : Plaintiffs and Defendants , 1344-1466 33 Piety by Gender , 1451-1800 62 ...