{"product_id":"law-family-and-women-thomas-kuehn-9780226457642","title":"Law, Family, and Women: Toward a Legal Anthropology of Renaissance Italy","description":"Focusing on Florence, Thomas Kuehn demonstrates the formative\u003cbr\u003e influence of law on Italian society during the Renaissance, \u003cbr\u003e especially in the spheres of family and women. Kuehn's use\u003cbr\u003e of legal sources along with letters, diaries, and\u003cbr\u003e contemporary accounts allows him to present a compelling\u003cbr\u003e image of the social processes that affected the shape and\u003cbr\u003e function of the law. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The numerous law courts of Italian city-states\u003cbr\u003e constantly devised and revised statutes. Kuehn traces the\u003cbr\u003e permutations of these laws, then examines their use by\u003cbr\u003e Florentines to arbitrate conflict and regulate social\u003cbr\u003e behavior regarding such issues as kinship, marriage, \u003cbr\u003e business, inheritance, illlegitimacy, and gender. Ranging\u003cbr\u003e from one man's embittered denunciation of his father to\u003cbr\u003e another's reaction to his kinsmen's rejection of him as\u003cbr\u003e illegitimate, \u003ci\u003eLaw, Family, and Women\u003c\/i\u003e provides\u003cbr\u003e fascinating evidence of the tensions riddling family life in\u003cbr\u003e Renaissance Florence. Kuehn shows how these same tensions, \u003cbr\u003e often articulated in and through the law, affected women. He\u003cbr\u003e examines the role of the mundualdus-a male legal guardian\u003cbr\u003e for women-in Florence, the control of fathers over their\u003cbr\u003e married daughters, and issues of inheritance by and through\u003cbr\u003e women. An ambitious attempt to reformulate the agenda of\u003cbr\u003e Renaissance social history, Kuehn's work will be of value to\u003cbr\u003e both legal anthropologists and social historians. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Thomas Kuehn is professor of history at Clemson\u003cbr\u003e University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Kuehn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226457648\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226457642\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.09h x 6.17w x 0.94d","brand":"Thomas Kuehn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44119456514303,"sku":"9780226457642","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_30bf8779-03f7-495e-a4c9-8e950396ddbd.jpg?v=1687409455","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/law-family-and-women-thomas-kuehn-9780226457642","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}