Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy

by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber

Book Overview

Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, a brilliant historian of the Annales school, skillfully uncovers the lives of ordinary Italians of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Tuscans in particular, young and old, rich, middle-class, and poor. From the extraordinarily detailed records kept by Florentine tax collectors and the equally precise ricordanze (household accounts with notations of events great and small), Klapisch-Zuber draws a living picture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226439267
• ISBN13: 9780226439266
• Release Date: June 1987
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"