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<p>Emlyn Eisenach uses a wide range of sources, including the richly detailed and previously unexplored records of nearly two hundred marriage-related disputes from the bishop’s court of Verona, to illuminate family and social relations in early modern northern Italy. Arguing against the common emphasis on the growth of law and government in this period, her study emphasizes the fluidity of the principles that governed marriage and its dissolution, and deepens our understanding of the patriarcha

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Author

Emlyn Eisenach

Publisher

Penn State University Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781935503446

Category

history

Subjects

History, Sociology, Anthropology

Updated

2026-03-24