Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy

Foreword by David Herlihy
Preface
1. State and Family in a Renaissance Society: The Florentine Catasto of 1427-30
2. Demographic Decline and Household Structure: The Example of Prato, Late Fourteenth to Late Fifteenth Centuries
3. "A une pane e uno vino": The Rural Tuscan Family at the Beginning of the Fifteenth Century (with Michel Demonet)
4. Kin, Friends, and Neighbors: The Urban Territory of a Merchant Family in 1400
5. Childhood in Tuscany at the Beginning of the Fifteenth Century
6. The "Cruel Mother": Maternity, Widowhood, and Dowry in Florence in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
7. Blood Parents and Milk Parents: Wet Nursing in Florence, 1300-1530
8. Female Celibacy and Service in Florence in the Fifteenth Century
9. Zacharias, or the Ousted Father: Nuptial Rites in Tuscany between Giotto and the Council of Trent
10. The Griselda Complex: Dowry and Marriage Gifts in the Quattrocento
11. An Ethnology of Marriage in the Age of Humanism
12. The "Mattinata" in Medieval Italy
13. The Name "Remade": The Transmission of Given Names in Florence in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
14. Holy Dolls: Play and Piety in Florence in the Quattrocento
Index