Marriage, Dowry, and Citizenship in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy

Introduction

1. Making and Breaking Betrothal Contracts (Sponsalia) in Late Trecento Florence (Osvaldo Cavallar and Julius Kirshner)

2. Li Emergenti Bisogni Matrimoniali in Renaissance Florence

3. Materials for a Gilded Cage: Nondotal Assets in Florence, 1300–1500

4. The Morning After: Collecting Monte Dowries in Renaissance Florence

5. The Seven Percent Fund of Renaissance Florence (Julius Kirshner and Jacob Klerman)

6. Wives’ Claims against Insolvent Husbands in Late Medieval Italy

7. Women Married Elsewhere: Gender and Citizenship in Medieval Italy

8. Dowry, Domicile, and Citizenship in Late Medieval Florence

9. Pisa’s ‘Long-Arm’ Gabella Dotis (1420–1525): Issues, Cases, Legal Opinions

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Appendix 1. Ricordanze of Paolo d’Alessandro Sassetti

Appendix 2. Formulario of Iacopo di ser Francesco Toschanelli

Appendix 3. Two Consilia of Angelus de Ubaldis

Appendix 4. Confessio dotis of Chirico di Giovanni of Florence

Appendix 5. The Seven Percent Account of Lorenzo di Bonaccorso Pitti

Appendix 6. Selected Jurists and Theologians