{"product_id":"9781442664524","title":"Marriage, Dowry, and Citizenship in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThrough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMarriage, Dowry, and Citizenship in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevised and updated to reflect current scholarship, the essays in \u003cem\u003eMarriage, Dowry, and Citizenship in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy \u003c\/em\u003eappear alongside an extended introduction which situates them within the broader field of Renaissance legal history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181352403184,"sku":"9781442664524","price":27.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442664524_p0.jpg?v=1763808569","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442664524","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}