This book examines the important social role of charitable institutions for women and children in late Renaissance Florence. Wars, social unrest, disease, and g

This book examines the important social role of charitable institutions for women and children in late Renaissance Florence. Wars, social unrest, disease, and g

The social problem of infant abandonment captured the public?s imagination in Italy during the fifteenth century, a critical period of innovation and developmen

The civic and the domestic in Aristotelian thought -- Friendship, concord, and Machiavellian subversion -- Jean Bodin and the politics of the family -- Inclusio

This book studies family life and gender within Italy through the lens of law and legal disputes.