1. Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on Italian Family Life
Richard P. Saller and David I. Kertzer
Part One: Antiquity
Introduction by Richard P. Saller
2. Roman Heirship Strategy in Principle and in Practice
Richard P. Saller
3. Child Rearing in Ancient Italy
Peter Garnsey
4. The Cultural Meaning of Death: Age and Gender in the Roman Family
Brent Shaw
5. Ideals and Practicalities in Matchmaking in Ancient Roman
Susan Treggiari
6. The Augustan Law on Adultery: The Social and Cultural Context
David Cohen
7. Constructing Kinship in Rome: Marriage and Divorce, Filiation and Adoption
Mireille Corbier
Part Two: The Medieval Fulcrum
Introduction by Julius Kirshner
8. Ideas about Procreation and their Influence on Ancient and Medieval Views of Kinship
Jane Fair Bestor
9. Sexuality, Marriage, Celibacy, and the Family in Central and Northern Italy: Christian Legal and Moral Guides in the Early Middle Ages
Michael Sheehan
10. Materials for a Gilded Cage: Non-Dotal Assets in Florence, 1300-1500
Julius Kirshner
11. Kinship and Politics in Fourteenth-Century Florence
Christiane Klapisch-Zuber
12. Homicides of Honor: The Development of Italian Adultery Law over Two Millennia
Eva Cantarella
Part Three: The Modern World
Introduction by David I. Kertzer
13. Three Household Formation Systems in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Italy
Marzio Barbagli
14. Choosing a Spouse among Nineteenth-Century Central Italian Sharecroppers
Luigi Tittarelli
15. The Joint-Family Household in Eighteenth-Century Southern Italian Society
William A. Douglass
16. Marital Property in an Apulian Town During the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Anthony H. Galt
17. Capital and Gendered Interest in Italian Family Firms
Sylvia Junko Yanagisako
18. Property, Kinship, and Gender: A Mediterranean Perspective
Caroline B. Brettell
References
Index