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Author Cohn, Samuel Kline, Jr.

Title Women in the streets : essays on sex and power in Renaissance Italy / Samuel K. Cohn Jr
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1996]
©1996

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Description xi, 250 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Contents 1. The Social History of Women in the Renaissance -- 2. Women in the Streets, Women in the Courts, in Early Renaissance Florence -- 3. Last Wills: Family, Women, and the Black Death in Central Italy -- 4. Women and the Counter Reformation in Siena: Authority and Property in the Family -- 5. Nuns and Dowry Funds: Women's Choices in the Renaissance -- 6. Sex and Violence on the Periphery: The Territorial State in Early Renaissance Florence -- 7. Prosperity in the Countryside: The Price Women Paid
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-240) and index
Subject Renaissance -- Italy.
Women -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600.
Women -- Italy -- Social conditions.
Women -- history.
Women.
Sociology.
SUBJECT Italy -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069026
LC no. 96011611
ISBN 0801853087 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0801853095 (paperback: alk. paper)