Howard Tzvi Adelman

Women and Jewish Marriage Negotiations in Early Modern Italy

For Love and Money

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a radical reassessment of the roles of women in Jewish marriage, divorce, and remarriage, examined through the setting of Italy from the end of the Renaissance to the Baroque, where negotiations involved competing Jewish customs, rabbinic opinions, Catholic practices, and Islamic influences. Case studies illustrate the amb

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780367893095
• ISBN-10: 0367893096
• Artikelnr.: 58482852

Autorenporträt

Howard Tzvi Adelman is Director of the Jewish Studies Program and Associate Professor of History at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Jews, Women, and Rabbis in Italy 2. Negotiating
Engagement: Anticipating Danger 3. Breaking Betrothals: Fleeing Danger 4.
Negotiating in and out of Marriage 5. Anticipating Death: Negotiating
Assets 6. Remarriage: Negotiations Between Families 7. Conclusion