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WIVES, WIDOWS, AND BRIDES OF CHRIST: MARRIAGE AND THE CONVENT IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF EARLY MODERN ITALY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2000

SILVIA EVANGELISTI
SILVIA EVANGELISTI
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
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Abstract

Two main alternative paths structured the lives of women in early modern Italy: marriage and the convent. Historians have analysed the disciplinary and economic functions, and the legal, religious and symbolic meaning of these paths, from a variety of perspectives. However, studies of marriage and the convent have mainly developed as two separate fields of historical research. My article reviews these two series of studies in the context of the historiography of early modern Italy, and suggests some of the possible connections between them.

Type
HISTORIOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS
Information
The Historical Journal , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , March 2000 , pp. 233 - 247
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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