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by Samuel K. Cohn


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Charts changes in law, the structure and accessibility of the criminal courts, and the customs and mentalities that shaped women's lot, from infanticide to the control of sexual mores.

"These seven essays on women, sex, violence, and piety in Renaissance Italy," writes historian Samuel Cohn Jr., "bespeak the darker side of the Renaissance and, in particular, the decline in Italian women's status from the late fourteenth century until the Counter Reformation visitations of the 1570s. In this sense, these essays run directly counter to Jacob Burckhardt's claim for Renaissance Italy, 'that women stood on a footing of perfect equality with men."

Challenging conventional views of the history of women in the Italian Renaissance, Cohn examines the lives primarily of non-elite women and looks at their experiences in various city-states and regions, thus offering a different perspective from the history of aristocratic and well-to-do women in the large city-states. Drawing on a wide range of archival documentation, Cohn also relies on large sets of quantitative material to reveal a multifaceted view of women's social worlds not seen from the letters of patrician ladies or the prescriptive judgments of Renaissance moralists.

Within the larger historical contexts of the Black Death, the growth of territorial states, and the Counter Reformation, Women in the Streets charts changes in law, the structure and accessibility of the criminal courts, and the customs and mentalities that shaped women's lot, from infanticide to the control of sexual mores. Ultimately, Cohn argues, women are the protagonists of this book, whether the issue is their support of other women or the resolution of conflict in the streets of Florence, the control of their own dowries or the salvation of their own souls.

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  • Title Women in the Streets: Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy
  • Author Samuel K. Cohn
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Paperback
  • Pages 264
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
  • Date 1996-12-17
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780801853098 / 0801853095
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.03 x 6.04 x 0.7 in (22.94 x 15.34 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Italy
  • Library of Congress subjects Renaissance - Italy, Italy - Social life and customs
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96011611
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.420

About the author

Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. is professor of medieval history at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Laboring Classes in Renaissance Florence, Death and Property in Siena, 1205-1800: Strategies for the Afterlife, and The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death: Six Renaissance Cities in Central Italy, the last two available from Johns Hopkins.

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