Julius Kirshner

Marriage, Dowry, and Citizenship in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy - Toronto Studies in Medieval Law Julius Kirshner

Commendation Quotes: "This collection brings some of Julius Kirshner's most trenchant ideas about marriage, property, and the law together in one place." - Roisin Cossar, Department of History, University of ManitobaTable of Contents: Introduction1. Making and Breaking Betrothal Contracts (Sponsalia) in Late Trecento Florence (Osvaldo Cavallar and Julius Kirshner)2. Li Emergenti Bisogni Matrimoniali in Renaissance Florence3. Materials for a Gilded Cage: Nondotal Assets in Florence, 1300-15004. The Morning After: Collecting Monte Dowries in Renaissance Florence5. The Seven Percent Fund of Renaissance Florence (Julius Kirshner and Jacob Klerman)6. Wives' Claims against Insolvent Husbands in Late Medieval Italy7. Women Married Elsewhere: Gender and Citizenship in Medieval Italy8. Dowry, Domicile, and Citizenship in Late Medieval Florence9. Pisa's 'Long-Arm' Gabella Dotis (1420-1525): Issues, Cases, Legal OpinionsOriginal Publication Information / 000Appendix 1. Ricordanze of Paolo d'Alessandro SassettiAppendix 2. Formulario of Iacopo di ser Francesco ToschanelliAppendix 3. Two Consilia of Angelus de UbaldisAppendix 4. Confessio dotis of Chirico di Giovanni of FlorenceAppendix 5. The Seven Percent Account of Lorenzo di Bonaccorso PittiAppendix 6. Selected Jurists and TheologiansMarc Notes: The nine studies gathered in this volume appeared over a twenty-six-year period, from 1985 to 2011. Originally, they were published as contributions to volumes honoring the research and careers of colleagues and the proceedings of conferences held in Europe. Allowing for their diverse origins, the studies share a common focus on three interrelated subjects: marriage, women's property, and citizenship in medieval and Renaissance Italy (1200-1550).--Introduction.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Commendation Quotes:"Julius Kirshner virtually invented the field of Renaissance socio-legal history. The informed exegesis of thickly contextualized learned opinions (consilia) and related material that is the hallmark of Kirshner's work nuances our understanding of society, politics, and economy in pre-modern Europe, especially in Italy, where the surviving evidence is superabundant." - Lawrin Armstrong, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of TorontoPublisher Marketing: Through his research on the status of women in Florence and other Italian cities, Julius Kirshner helped to establish the socio-legal history of women in late medieval and Renaissance Italy and challenge the idea that Florentine women had an inferior legal position and civic status. In Marriage, Dowry, and Citizenship in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy, Kirshner collects nine important essays which address these issues in Florence and the cities of northern and central Italy. Using a cross-disciplinary approach that draws on the methodologies of both social and legal history, the essays in this collection present a wealth of examples of daughters, wives, and widows acting as full-fledged social and legal actors. Revised and updated to reflect current scholarship, the essays in Marriage, Dowry, and Citizenship in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy appear alongside an extended introduction which situates them within the broader field of Renaissance legal history.

Contributor Bio:  Kirshner, Julius Julius Kirshner is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Chicago.