Travails of the Widow in Law in Florence at the End of the Fifteenth Century: An Illustrative Case

Likely to outlive their typically older husbands, Florentine widows' fate and that of their property were of abiding concern to husbands and their heirs. Widows' dowries especially represented a "debt" for the husbands, which came due on the dissolution of marriage. A debt, howev...

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Main Author: Kuehn, Thomas (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc. [2018]
In: The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2018, Volume: 49, Issue: 3, Pages: 691-711
IxTheo Classification:KBJ Italy
NCF Sexual ethics
TH Late Middle Ages
XA Law
Further subjects:B Dowry
B FATHERS & daughters
B Husbands
B Divorce law
B Florence (Italy)
B History
B LEGISLATIVE bodies; Dissolution
B LEGAL status of widows
B Marriage

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