Author

Publication

2018 - Taylor & Francis Group

Language

English

Word Count

45,250 words, Guess

Page Count

181 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780367027117
  • ISBN-100367027119
  • Library of Congress Control Number2018053838
  • Library of Congress Control Number2018036567
  • OCLC Control Number1061125141
and 3 more

Classifications

  • LCCHQ630.15
  • LCCHQ803.5 .B93 2019

Description

Conditions of the marriage market and sexual culture, and the needs of wealthy families and their members created social tensions in the late sixteenth and early-seventeenth century Venice. This study details these tensions and discusses concubinage- a long-term, sexual, non-marital union - as an alternate family model that soothed them by meeting the needs of families and individuals in a manner that did not offend the sensibilities of the authorities or other Venetians. Concubinage was quite common, and the Venetian community regularly accepted concubinaries, concubinal relationships, and the offspring concubinage produced.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Informal Marriages in Early Modern VeniceTaylor & Francis Group2018

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