Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

ISBN-13: 9780582317482 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 286 str.

Sandra Cavallo; Lyndan Warner

Opis

Using case studies of several European countries, this volume traces the emergence of the conventional association of widowhood with women and studies widowhood as a predominantly female experience from both the male and the female perspectives.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.  Abbreviations.  Part One: Defining Widowhood.  1. Introduction - Sandra Cavallo/Lyndan Warner.  2. Men, women, and widows: some implications of the terminology of widowhood in pre-Conquest England - Julia Crick.  3. Finding widowers: men without women in English towns before 1700 - Margaret Pelling. 
Part Two: Models and Paradoxes.  4. The widow's options in medieval southern Italy Patricia Skinner 5. The virtuous widow in Protestant England - Barbara Todd.  6. Widows, widowers and the problem of 'second marriages' in sixteenth-century France - Lyndan Warner.  7. Marrying the experienced widow in early modern England: the male perspective - Elizabeth Foyster.  Part Three: Marital and Family Constraints.  8. Lineage strategies and the control of widows in Renaissance Florence - Isabelle Chabot.  9. Property and widowhood in England 1660-1840 - Amy Louise Erickson.  10. Religious difference and the experience of widowhood in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Germany - Dagmar Freist.  Part Four: Self-constructions in Legal, Religious and Institutional Narratives.  11. Widowhood and religious expression in early modern Spain: the view from Avila - Jodi Bilinkoff.  12. Widows at law in Tudor and Stuart England - Tim Stretton.  13. Widows, the state and the custody of children in early modern Tuscany - Giulia Calvi.  14. Survival strategies and stories: poor widows and widowers in early industrial England - Pam Sharpe.  Suggestions for reading on widowhood.  Notes on contibutors.  Index.

O autorze

Sandra Cavallo, Lyndan Warner