Introduction: issues in the history of marriage Trevor Dean and Kate Lowe;
Part I. Ceremonies and Festivities: 1. Wedding finery in sixteenth-century
Venice Patricia Allerston; 2. Secular brides and convent brides: wedding
ceremonies in Italy during the Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Kate
Lowe; 3. The rape of the Sabine women on Quattrocento marriage panels
Jacqueline Musacchio; Part II. Intervention by Church and State: 4. Fathers
and daughters: marriage laws and marriage disputes in Bologna and Italy,
1200-1500 Trevor Dean; 5. Marriage ceremonies and the church in Italy after
1215 David d'Avray; 6. Dowry and the conversion of the Jews in
sixteenth-century Rome: competition between the church and the Jewish
community Piet van Boxel; 7. Nobility, women and the state: marriage
regulation in Venice, 1420-1535 Stanley Chojnacki; Part III. Patterns of
Intermarriage: 8. Marriage, faction and conflict in sixteenth-century
Italy: an example and a few questions Gérard Delille; 9. Marriage in the
mountains: the Florentine territorial state, 1348-1500 Samuel Kline Cohn
Jr; 10. Marriage and politics at the papal court in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries Irene Fosi and Maria Antonietta Visceglia; Part IV.
Consequences and Endings: 11. Bending the rules: marriage in Renaissance
collections of biographies of famous women Stephen Kolsky; 12. Separations
and separated couples in fourteenth-century Venice Linda Guzzetti; 13.
Reconstructing the family: widowhood and remarriage in Tuscany in the early
modern period Giulia Calvi.
