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Record Number:
7444
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Kirshner , Julius.
Contributor(s):
Title:
Li Emergenti Bisogni Matrimoniali
in Renaissance Florence
Source:
Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence. Edited by William J. Connell. University of California Press, 2002. Pages 79 - 109. Reprinted in Marriage, Dowry, and Citizenship in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Written by Julius Kirshner. University of Toronto Press, 2015. Pages 55-73.
Description:
The gifts exchanged between a groom and his bride's family partly served to promote social solidarity. Nonetheless a future husband also invested in his own status and in an auspicious beginning of the marriage. The bride's dowry was expected to counterbalance the groom's expenditures for jewels and fine clothing. Some husbands did not take their wives into their homes until a sufficient portion of the dowry had been paid or expected other forms of compensation, including collection of interest on loans, for the "Burdens of Marriage."
Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Belts
Bernardino da Siena, Theologian and Saint
Dowries
Florence
Law
Marriage
Sumptuary Laws
Trousseau (Houshold Goods That the Bride Brings to Her New Home)
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
Italy
Century:
15
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Author's Affiliation:
University of Chicago
Conference Info:
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Year of Publication:
2002.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0520232542