Date: 2017
Type: Thesis
The ties that bind : marriage, family, and fortune ; a study on English and Venetian families during the seventeenth century
Florence : European University Institute, 2017, EUI, HEC, PhD Thesis
DALLAVALLE, Lisa, The ties that bind : marriage, family, and fortune ; a study on English and Venetian families during the seventeenth century, Florence : European University Institute, 2017, EUI, HEC, PhD Thesis - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/44976
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The Ties that Bind: Marriage, Family, and Fortune offers a fresh perspective on the European family through a parallel study on a group of English and Venetian families during the latter part of the seventeenth century. The families in this study were all connected to the legal profession, and shared a similar socio-professional status. However, their worlds were remarkably distinct, England and Venice were governed by different norms and laws, they represented different sides of the confessional divide, as well as the North-western European divide. These differences had an impact on their experiences of family life. This study will focus on three major themes, marriage strategies, inheritance and family affiliation, and family relationships and hierarchies. Through these three issues, this study will examine in parallel how the different geographical, cultural and legal settings of England and Venice impacted experiences of marriage and family life. Building on a wide range of sources including, testaments, court cases, citizenship reports, family archives, and correspondence, this thesis will examine the English and Venetian families through a series of case studies. In so doing it will provide a broader range of experiences within the family between two rather distinct groups.
Additional information:
Defence date: 23 January 2017; Examining Board: Professor Luca Mola, EUI; Professor Ann Thomson, EUI; Professor Anna Bellavitis, University of Rouen; Dr. Felicity Heal, University of Oxford
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/44976
Full-text via DOI: 10.2870/451702
Series/Number: EUI; HEC; PhD Thesis
Publisher: European University Institute
LC Subject Heading: Families -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Marriage -- England -- History -- 17th century; Families -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 17th century; Families -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Preceding version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/46770
Version: Chapter 7 ‘The Moretti family: marital status and domestic authority' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article 'The Moretti family: late marriage, bachelorhood and domestic authority in Seventeenth-Century Venice' (2015) in the journal ‘Gender & History’; Due to copyright four figures have been removed from the thesis available in Open Access: Figure 1.1, page 38; Figure 1.2, page 40; Figure 1.3, page 41, and Figure 2.6, page 84
