Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 8634
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Chojnacki , Stanley.
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  • Title: Daughters and Oligarchs: Gender and the Early Renaissance State [argues that the state intervened to define the roles of men and women; studies the efforts to keep nuns' convents chaste and respectable, to control the ever rising cost of dowries, and to control the members of the male elite].
  • Source: Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy.  Edited by Judith C. Brown and Robert C. Davis.  Longman, 1998.  Pages 63 - 86. Republished in slightly altered form as Gender and the Early Renaissance State. By Stanley Chojnacki. Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pages 27-52.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Family Gender Monasticism Noble Men Politics
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 14- 15- 16
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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  • Year of Publication: 1998.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0582293251