A cultural history of marriage in the Renaissance and early modern age
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A cultural history of marriage in the Renaissance and early modern age
(The cultural histories series, . A cultural history of marriage / general editor,
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-202) and index
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Description
Why marry? The personal question is timeless. Yet the highly emotional desires of men and women during the period between 1450 and 1650 were also circumscribed by external forces that operated within a complex arena of sweeping economic, demographic, political, and religious changes. The period witnessed dramatic religious reforms in the Catholic confession and the introduction of multiple Protestant denominations; the advent of the printing press; European encounters and exchange with the Americas, North Africa, and southwestern and eastern Asia; the growth of state bureaucracies; and a resurgence of ecclesiastical authority in private life. These developments, together with social, religious, and cultural attitudes, including the constructed norms of masculinity, femininity, and sexuality, impinged upon the possibility of marrying. The nine scholars in this volume aim to provide a comprehensive picture of current research on the cultural history of marriage for the years between 1450 and 1650 by identifying both the ideal templates for nuptial unions in prescriptive writings and artistic representation and actual practices in the spheres of courtship and marriage rites, sexual relationships, the formation of family networks, marital dissolution, and the overriding choices of individuals over the structural and cultural constraints of the time.
A Cultural History of Marriage in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age presents an overview of the period with essays on Courtship and Ritual; Religion, State and Law; Kinship and Social Networks; the Family Economy; Love and Sex; the Breaking of Vows; and Representations of Marriage.
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General Editor's Preface, Joanne M. Ferraro (San Diego State University, USA)
Introduction, Joanne M. Ferraro (San Diego State University, USA)
1. Courtship and Ritual, Debra Kaplan (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
2. Religion, Cecilia Cristellon (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
3. State and Law, Elizabeth Marjorie Plummer (University of Arizona, USA)
4. The Ties That Bind, Anna Bellavitis (Rouen University, France)
5. The Family Economy, Jutta Sperling (Hampshire College, USA)
6. Love, Sex, and Sexuality, Sara F. Matthews-Grieco (Syracuse University in Florence, Italy)
7. Breaking Vows, Martin Ingram (University of Oxford, UK)
8. Representation, Andrea Bayer (Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA)
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