Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 20357
Author(s): Fabbri, Lorenzo
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Title : I carteggi familiari degli Strozzi e il tema del matrimonio: un'esperienza di ricerca [Private papers like those of the Strozzi family cast light on marriage negotiations in fifteenth century Florence. The letters of Alessandra Strozzi and Marco Pareti, her brother-in-law, reveal personal qualities sought in the brides for her sons, as well as practical issues like dowry. The character and appearance of the prospective bride were as important as the size of her dowry. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Moyen âge , 117., 1 ( 2005): Pages 223 - 237.
Year of Publication: 2005.

2. Record Number: 7401
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Title : Marriage, Sexual Pleasure, and Learned Brides in the Wedding Orations of Fifteenth-Century Italy

Source: Renaissance Quarterly , 55., 2 (Summer 2002): Pages 379 - 433.
Year of Publication: 2002.

3. Record Number: 9362
Author(s): Hilsdale, Cecily J.
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Title : Bride, Book, and Visuality

Source: Byzantine Studies Conference. Abstracts of Papers , 28., ( 2002): Pages 40 - 41.
Year of Publication: 2002.

4. Record Number: 5721
Author(s): Landini, Roberta Orsi and Mary Westerman Bulgarella
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Title : Costume in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Portraits of Women

Source: Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's "Ginevra de'Benci" and Renaissance Portraits of Women." Catalog of an exhibition held Sept. 30, 2001-Jan. 6, 2002 at the National Gallery of Art. Edited by David Alan Brown et al.; with contributions by Elizabeth Cropper and Eleonora Luciano. . National Gallery of Art in association with Princeton University Press, 2001. Byzantine Studies Conference. Abstracts of Papers , 28., ( 2002): Pages 88 - 97.
Year of Publication: 2001.

5. Record Number: 7365
Author(s): Miglio, Massimo.
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Title : Feste di matrimonio a Roma [A papal master of ceremonies complained about the small part religion played in Roman marriages. Accounts of actual marriages, like that of Rosata Caffari, reveal a complex series of agreements between families, gift giving and festivities. This culminated in the bride's transfer to the groom's residence. These practices exalted the families involved and reinforced social solidarity.]

Source: Patrimonium in festa: cortei, tornei, artifici e feste alla fine del Medioevo (secoli XV-XVI). Edited by Anna Modigliani . Centro di Studi per il Patrimonio di S. Pietro in Tuscia; Ente Ottava Medievale di Orte, 2000. Byzantine Studies Conference. Abstracts of Papers , 28., ( 2002): Pages 119 - 131.
Year of Publication: 2000.

6. Record Number: 7366
Author(s): Nuovo, Isabella
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Title : La festa tra spettacolo e invenzione: il corte nuziale di Isabella d'Aragona e Gian Galeazzo Sforza [Magnificence was expected of Italian courts in the 15th century. This extended to wedding with their diplomatic overtones. In 1489 King Alfonso of Naples married his daughter Isabella to the young duke of Milan, Gin Galeazzo Sforza. Ceremonies in both Naples and Milan were marked by conspicuous display. Scholars and artists, including Leonardo da Vinci, were enlisted to ornament these nuptials.]

7. Record Number: 4001
Author(s): Bestor, Jane Fair.
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Title : Marriage Transactions in Renaissance Italy and Mauss's "Essay on the Gift" [The author focuses on the gifts that the groom gave the bride including jewelry, ornaments, and rich clothing; by the fifteenth century grooms retained use over these expensive items and often rented them out or sold them.]

Source: Past and Present (Full Text via JSTOR) 164 (August 1999): 6-46. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1999.

8. Record Number: 3055
Author(s): Randolph, Adrian W. B.
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Title : Performing the Bridal Body in Fifteenth-Century Florence

Source: Art History , 21., 2 (June 1998): Pages 182 - 200.
Year of Publication: 1998.

9. Record Number: 3364
Author(s): Lauxtermann, Marc.
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Title : Three Biographical Notes [the first concerns Kassia, the hymnwriter and abbess; the author analyzes the story which places Kassia in a bride show for the young emperor Theophilos; the author argues that the story was intended to rehabilitate Kassia's reputation and banish all doubts about her lukewarm support of iconophilia orthodoxy].

Source: Byzantinische Zeitschrift , 91., 2 ( 1998): Pages 391 - 405.
Year of Publication: 1998.

10. Record Number: 11197
Author(s): Head, Thomas.
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Title : The Marriages of Christina of Markyate

Source: Viator , 21., ( 1990): Pages 75 - 101.
Year of Publication: 1990.