Table of Contents

Table of Contents

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