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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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Social History of Women in Renaissance
Chapter 2. Women in the Streets, Women in the Courts, in Early Renassance Florence
Chapter 3. Last Wills: Family, Women, and the Black Death in Central Italy
Chapter 4. Women and the Counter Reformation in Siena: Authority and Property in the Family
Chapter 5. Nuns and Dowry Funds: Women's Choices in the Renaissance
Chapter 6. Sex and Violence on the Periphery: The Territorial State in Early Renaissance Florence
Chapter 7. Prosperity in the Countryside: The Price Women Paid
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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.

Reviews

Together these essays from this distinguished Renaissance historian will challenge and inform students and scholars. They represent social history at its finest, posing proper questions and marshaling substantial evidence to support all conclusions. -- Michael Galgano History