Search results for "History of family"

Report on the four recent books on the history of the family

2013

Mobilité, droits et citoyenneté des femmes dans l’Italie médiévale et moderne

2016

In medieval and early modern Italy, women were excluded from political citizenship, but they were able to participate in various forms of belonging to a particular place. Geographical mobility affected the legal status of individuals, not only because of the various ways of distinguishing between citizens and foreigners, but also because the provisions of municipal law might differ from one place to another, especially regarding women’s status and rights, for example regarding property and inheritance. This essay illustrates the principal issues relating to women’s citizenship, and examines the reactions of both women and men to the multitude and variety of local statutory laws.

Contro la violenza domestica: Agency delle donne e istituzioni nell’Italia del secondo Ottocento

2023

La violenza domestica e l’agency femminile sembrano due oggetti di studio contradditori e inconciliabili. Tuttavia proprio le esperienze di sopraffazione costituiscono un terreno delicato ma concreto di espressione dell’agency degli attori sociali. Per offrire un quadro di lettura che combini i due termini e permetta di apprezzarne la correlazione, il contributo esplora tre ambiti in cui la violenza di genere è oggetto di discorso, di narrazione, di analisi all’incirca nell’ultimo ventennio dell’Ottocento: sono, innanzitutto, lo spazio e i modi in cui la violenza entra nell’annoso dibattito parlamentare sul divorzio, quindi la conflittualità e la violenza esperite dalle coppie che presentan…

Orphaned siblings and noble families in baroque Rome

2010

The essay investigates the impact of the premature death of the father on brother and sister groups in noble Roman families of the seventeenth century. More specifically, it explores how this loss reflected on the biographical itineraries of individual members of the sibling unit; how adelphic relations between the orphans were reformulated according to order of birth and first born or cadet status, age, and sex; and what forms of solidarity and competition were engendered by the loss of a father. Since demographic historians have shown that orphanage at an early age is an important variable, the author argues that it cannot be overlooked – as historians have done so far – in studies on fam…