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Author: Monica Chojnacka Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 9780801864858 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 242
Book Description
In this groundbreaking book, Monica Chojnacka argues that the women of early modern Venice occupied a more socially powerful space than traditionally believed. Rather than focusing exclusively on the women of noble or wealthy merchant families, Chojnacka explores the lives of women—unmarried, married, or widowed—who worked for a living and helped keep the city running through their labor, services, and products. Among Chojnacka's surprising findings is the degree to which these working women exercised control over their own lives. Many headed households and even owned their own homes; when necessary, they also took in and supported other women of their families. Some were self-employed, while others had jobs outside the home. They often moved freely about the city to conduct business, and they took legal action in the courts on their own behalf. On a daily basis, Venetian women worked, traveled, and contested obstacles in ways that made the city their own.
Author: Monica Chojnacka Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 9780801864858 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 242
Book Description
In this groundbreaking book, Monica Chojnacka argues that the women of early modern Venice occupied a more socially powerful space than traditionally believed. Rather than focusing exclusively on the women of noble or wealthy merchant families, Chojnacka explores the lives of women—unmarried, married, or widowed—who worked for a living and helped keep the city running through their labor, services, and products. Among Chojnacka's surprising findings is the degree to which these working women exercised control over their own lives. Many headed households and even owned their own homes; when necessary, they also took in and supported other women of their families. Some were self-employed, while others had jobs outside the home. They often moved freely about the city to conduct business, and they took legal action in the courts on their own behalf. On a daily basis, Venetian women worked, traveled, and contested obstacles in ways that made the city their own.
Author: Satya Brata Datta Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 280
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In Women and Men in Early Modern Venice, Satya Datta, from a theoretically informed perspective, focuses on two inter-related topics: reassessing the empiricist tradition of Venetian historiography, and highlighting the issue of human experience by investigating the actual activities of common women and men and their multiple experience in shaping their own history under given, but changeable, societal conditions. The author makes explicit by interpretation just how the multiple experiences of common Venetians in the early modern period were shaped and articulated. For analytical clarity and convenience, the fundamental theme is split into four distinct sub-themes: the social experiences of the artisan community, the cultural experiences of art-related artisans, the feminist experiences of intellectual women, and the working experiences of ordinary women.
Author: Daniela Hacke Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351871455 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 400
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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.
Author: Satya Datta Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9781138709355 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Title first published in 2003. In Women and Men in Early Modern Venice, Satya Datta, from a theoretically informed perspective, focuses on two inter-related topics: reassessing the empiricist tradition of Venetian historiography, and highlighting the issue of human experience by investigating the actual activities of common women and men and their multiple experience in shaping their own history under given, but changeable, societal conditions. The author makes explicit by interpretation just how the multiple experiences of common Venetians in the early modern period were shaped and articulated. For analytical clarity and convenience, the fundamental theme is split into four distinct sub-themes: the social experiences of the artisan community, the cultural experiences of art-related artisans, the feminist experiences of intellectual women, and the working experiences of ordinary women.
Author: Amanda L. Capern Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000709590 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 473
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The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe is a comprehensive and ground-breaking survey of the lives of women in early-modern Europe between 1450 and 1750. Covering a period of dramatic political and cultural change, the book challenges the current contours and chronologies of European history by observing them through the lens of female experience. The collaborative research of this book covers four themes: the affective world; practical knowledge for life; politics and religion; arts, science and humanities. These themes are interwoven through the chapters, which encompass all areas of women’s lives: sexuality, emotions, health and wellbeing, educational attainment, litigation and the practical and leisured application of knowledge, skills and artistry from medicine to theology. The intellectual lives of women, through reading and writing, and their spirituality and engagement with the material world, are also explored. So too is the sheer energy of female work, including farming and manufacture, skilled craft and artwork, theatrical work and scientific enquiry. The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe revises the chronological and ideological parameters of early-modern European history by opening the reader’s eyes to an exciting age of female productivity, social engagement and political activism across European and transatlantic boundaries. It is essential reading for students and researchers of early-modern history, the history of women and gender studies.
Author: L. McGough Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230298079 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 213
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A unique study of how syphilis, better known as the French disease in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, became so widespread and embedded in the society, culture and institutions of early modern Venice due to the pattern of sexual relations that developed from restrictive marital customs, widespread migration and male privilege.
Author: Jana Byars Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429675615 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 301
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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.
Author: Elizabeth Horodowich Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521894964 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 23
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This book demonstrates that a crucial component of statebuilding in Venice was the management of public speech. Using a variety of historical sources, Horodowich shows that the Venetian state constructed a normative language - a language based on standards of politeness, civility, and piety - to protect and reinforce its civic identity.
Author: Patricia H. Labalme Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000938786 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 273
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This volume brings together the published academic essays of the Renaissance historian Patricia Hochschild Labalme (1927-2002). Appearing between 1955 and 1999, they deal with the intellectual, social and religious life of Venice in the 15th-16th centuries. An important focus is the exploration of the careers, milieu and writings of cultural and literary women of early modern Venice, a field to which the author made a particular contribution.
Author: Anna Bellavitis Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319965417 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 266
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In the last decades, women’s role in the workforce has dramatically changed, though gender inequality persists and for women, gender identity still prevails over work identity. It is important not to forget or diminish the historical role of women in the labour market though and this book proposes a critical overview of the most recent historical research on women’s roles in economic urban activities. Covering a wide area of early modern Europe, from Portugal to Poland and from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, Bellavitis presents an overview of the economic rights of women – property, inheritance, management of their wealth, access to the guilds, access to education – and assesses the evolution of female work in different urban contexts.
Author: Monica Chojnacka
Author: Monica Chojnacka
Author: Satya Brata Datta
Author: Daniela Hacke
Author: Satya Datta
Author: Amanda L. Capern
Author: L. McGough
Author: Jana Byars
Author: Elizabeth Horodowich
Author: Patricia H. Labalme
Author: Anna Bellavitis