Book by Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane

Women, family, and ritual in Renaissance Italy

Politics & Social Sciences

Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane

Cochrane, Lydia [trans.]

Social Sciences

University of Chicago Press

Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, a brilliant historian of the Annales school, skillfully uncovers the lives of ordinary Italians of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Tuscans in particular, young and old, rich, middle-class, and poor. From the extraordinarily detailed records kept by Florentine tax collectors and the equally precise ricordanze (household accounts with notations of events great and small), Klapisch-Zuber draws a living picture of the Tuscan household. We learn, for example, how children were named, how wet nurses were engaged, how marriages were negotiated and celebrated. A wealth of other sources are tapped—including city statutes, private letters, philosophical works on marriage, paintings—to determine the social status of women. Klapisch-Zuber reveals how women, in their roles as daughters, wives, sisters, and mothers, were largely subject to a family system that needed them but valued them little.

Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy

History

Americas

A computer-assisted analysis of the Florentine Catasto, which is a rich new source of information on the social history of an important era. A translation of the 1978 first edition which was published in France, it is a major contribution to Renaissance studies, historical demography, the history of the family, and women's studies. Illustrated with several graphs. Indexed. xxiv, 404 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..

Tuscans and their Families: A Study of the Florentine Catasto of 1427 (Yale Series in Economic and Financial History)

Herlihy, David V.

Europe

Yale University Press

Business & Money

Economics

Drawing on myriad sources―from the faint traces left by the rocking of a cradle at the site of an early medieval home to an antique illustration of Eve’s fall from grace―this second volume in the celebrated series offers new perspectives on women of the past. Twelve distinguished historians from many countries examine the image of women in the masculine mind, their social condition, and their daily experience from the demise of the Roman Empire to the genesis of the Italian Renaissance.
More than in any other era, a medieval woman’s place in society was determined by men; her sexuality was perceived as disruptive and dangerous, her proper realm that of the home and cloister. The authors draw upon the writings of bishops and abbots, moralists and merchants, philosophers and legislators, to illuminate how men controlled women’s lives. Sumptuary laws regulating feminine dress and ornament, pastoral letters admonishing women to keep silent and remain chaste, and learned treatises with their fantastic theories about women’s physiology are fully explored in these pages. As adoration of the Virgin Mary reached full flower by the year 1200, ecclesiastics began to envision motherhood as a holy role; misogyny, however, flourished unrestrained in local proverbs, secular verses, and clerical thought throughout the period.
Were women’s fates sealed by the dictates of church and society? The authors investigate legal, economic, and demographic aspects of family and communal life between the sixth and the fifteenth centuries and bring to light the fleeting moments in which women managed to seize some small measure of autonomy over their lives. The notion that courtly love empowered feudal women is discredited in this volume. The pattern of wear on a hearthstone, fingerprints on a terracotta pot, and artifacts from everyday life such as scissors, thimbles, spindles, and combs are used to reconstruct in superb detail the commonplace tasks that shaped women’s existence inside and outside the home. As in antiquity, male fantasies and fears are evident in art. Yet a growing number of women rendered visions of their own gender in sumptuous tapestries and illuminations. The authors look at the surviving texts of female poets and mystics and document the stirrings of a quiet revolution throughout the West, as a few daring women began to preserve their thoughts in writing.

History of Women in the West, Volume II: Silences of the Middle Ages

Reference

Belknap Press

Tuscans and Their Families: A Study of the Florentine Catasto of 1427 (Acls History E-book Project Reprint: Yale Series in Economic History)

HERLIHY, David

ACLS History E-Book Project

Book by Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane, Herlihy, David

Tuscans and Their Families: A Study of the Florentine Catasto of 1427

ACLS Humanities E-Book

L'Ogre historien: Autour de Jacques Le Goff

Literature & Fiction

COLLECTIFS

Augé, Marc

Vauchez, André

Geremek, Bronisław

Boureau, Alain

PASTOUREAU, Michel

Marin, Louis

Schmitt, Jean-Claude

Revel, Jacques

Baschet, Jérôme

Pomian, Krzysztof

Nora, Pierre

Toubert, Pierre

Polo de Beaulieu, Marie Anne

Fabre, Daniel

Guerreau, Alain

Berlioz, Jacques

Bonne, Jean-Claude

Dumayet, Pierre

Genre Fiction

Gallimard]

Ces femmes du Moyen âge, à qui maîtres, époux et censeurs dénient la parole avec tant de constance, ont finalement laissé plus de textes et d'échos de leur dire que de traces proprement matérielles. Le millénaire que couvre ce volume laisse, vers son début et vers sa fin, passer, un peu plus assurée, la parole même des femmes, bien qu'il faille tendre l'oreille pour la saisir, assourdie, dans le brouhaha immense du chœur des hommes. Leur discours, leurs témoignages ou leur cri nous permettent simplement de percevoir comment ont mûri en elles les modèles que directeurs de conscience ou maîtres du savoir leur imposaient, les images que les hommes leur renvoyaient d'elles-mêmes, parfois leur refus de cette vision déformée, et toujours la manière dont ces " images " se sont inscrites dans leur vie et leur chair. L'histoire tout court a tout à gagner à prendre en compte sa part féminine.

Histoire des femmes en Occident - tome 2 Le Moyen Age (2)

DUBY, Georges

Perrot, Michelle

World

TEMPUS PERRIN

RETOUR A LA CITE LES MAGNATS DE FLORENCE, 1340-1440

EHESS

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