Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 45669
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Kirshner , Julius, Osvaldo Cavallar and Stephanus de Bonacursis,
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  • Title: Bella Figura: Florentine Jurists and Their Wives
  • Source: Jurists and Jurisprudence in Medieval Italy: Texts and Contexts.  Edited by Osvaldo Cavallar and Julius Kirshner .  University of Toronto Press, 2020.  Pages 233 - 244. Available with a subscription from JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctv179h1fw.21
    and from De Gruyter: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.3138/9781487536336-007/pdf
  • Description: Three documents are translated:
    14.1 Deliberation of the Guild of Judges and Notaries of Florence (9 Sept. 1366)
    14.2. Provisions of Florence’s Sumptuary Laws, 1377 and 1388
    14.3. Stephanus de Bonacursis and Others, Consilium on the Exemption of Jurists and Their Wives from Florence’s Sumptuary Laws (1390)
  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Clothing Lawyers Sumptuary Laws Wives
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 14
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  • Author's Affiliation: Nanzan University [Cavallar]; University of Chicago [Kirshner- Emeritus Professor]
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  • Year of Publication: 2020.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9781487507480 (print); 9781487536336 (online)