Law, family & women: toward a legal anthropology of Renaissance Italy

Intro; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Law; 1. Law and Arbitration in Renaissance Florence; 2. Dispute Processing in the Renaissance: Some Florentine Examples; 3. Conflicting Conceptions of Property in Quattrocento Florence: A Dispute over Ownership in 1425-26; Part Two: Family; 4. Honor and Conflict in a Fifteenth-Century Florentine Family; 5. A Reconsideration of Self-Disciplining Pacts among the Peruzzi of Florence; 6. Reading between the Patrilines: Leon Battista Alberti's Della Famiglia in Light of His Illegitimacy

7. ""As If Conceived within a Legitimate Marriage"": A Dispute Concerning Legitimation in Quattrocento FlorencePart Three: Women; 8. Women, Marriage, and Patria Potestas in Late Medieval Florence; 9. ""Cum Consensu Mundualdi"": Legal Guardianship of Women in Quattrocento Florence; 10. Some Ambiguities of Female Inheritance Ideology in the Renaissance; Appendix: Examples of Arbitration; Notes; Bibliography; Index