A collection of essays about marriage and the role of women in Renaissance Italy.

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

Examines how late medieval church courts were used for marriage cases, and how this varied dramatically across Europe.

Grace E. Coolidge looks at illegitimacy across the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyzes its implications for gender and family structure in the Spanis

This book is a study of convent theatre in Italy, an all-female tradition. Widespread in the early modern period, but virtually forgotten today, this activity p