Law, Family, and Women

List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Law
1. Law and Arbitration in Renaissance Florence
2. Dispute Processing in the Renaissance: Some Florentine Examples
3. Conflicting Conceptions of Property in Quattrocento Florence: A Dispute over Ownership in 1425-26
Part Two: Family
4. Honor and Conflict in a Fifteenth-Century Florentine Family
5. A Reconsideration of Self-Disciplining Pacts among the Peruzzi of Florence
6. Reading between the Patrilines: Leon Battista Alberti's Della Famiglia in Light of His Illegitimacy
7. "As If Conceived within a Legitimate Marriage": A Dispute Concerning Legitimation in Quattrocento Florence
Part Three: Women
8. Women, Marriage, and Patria Potestas in Late Medieval Florence
9. "Cum Consensu Mundualdi": Legal Guardianship of Women in Quattrocento Florence
10. Some Ambiguities of Female Inheritance Ideology in the Renaissance
Appendix: Examples of Arbitration
Notes
Bibliography
Index