Merry Wiesner Hanks, Monica Chojnacka

Ages of Woman, Ages of Man

Sources in European Social History, 1400-1750

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The only source book for this period and subject to offer such a broad focus, this collection brings together a wide and exciting range of written and visual sources.The sources address the numerous and varied ways in which women and men's notions of themselves affected their lives, and explore how normative concepts of masculine and feminine influenced social, economic, and religious change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781138144996
• ISBN-10: 1138144991
• Artikelnr.: 71794940

Autorenporträt

Merry Wiesner Hanks has published several books on women in early modern Europe, including Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World (Routledge, 2000) and is the co-editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal. She is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee. Monica Chojnacka is the author of Working Women of Early Modern Venice (2001). She is Associate Professor of History at the University of Georgia.

Inhaltsangabe

Geographic table of contents. Introduction I. CHILDHOOD 1. Birth and
Infancy 2. Education and training 3. Orphans 4. Inheritance II. YOUTH,
SEXUALITY, AND THE SINGLE LIFE 5. Advanced Education 6. Restrictions on
single people 7. Sexuality 8. Images of Youth III. COURTSHIP, LOVE, AND
WEDDINGS 9. Choosing a spouse 10. Engagement negotiations 11. Marriage
contracts and agreements 12. Love 13. Weddings IV. MARRIED LIFE 14.
Definitions of marital status 15. Love and companionship 16. Marriage as
partnership 17. Conflict V. ECONOMIC LIFE 18. Ownership and management of
property and goods 19. Sales and trade 20. Production 21. Medical care 22.
Servants, soldiers, and slaves VI. RELIGION 23. Defining and maintaining
orthodoxy 24. Religious activities 25. Competing traditions VII. NETWORKS
26. Family bonds 27. Friendship networks and neighborhoods 28. Professional
networks 29. Religious communities 30. Conflict VIII. WIDOWHOOD AND OLD AGE
31. Carrying on the family business 32. Widows and widowers as financial
administrators 33. Widowhood, age, and power 34. Hardship. List of
Contributors.