Name: Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice
SKU: 19061533
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Author: Jutta Gisela Sperling
ISBN: 9780226769363

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Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice

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Physical Book

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

Author

Jutta Gisela Sperling

Year

2000

Language

English

Pages

434

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0226769364

ISBN13

9780226769363

Edition No.

Synopsis "Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice "

In late-16th-century Venice, nearly 60 per cent of all patrician women joined convents, and only a minority of these women did so voluntarily. In trying to explain why unprecedented numbers of patrician women did not marry, historians have claimed that dowries became too expensive. However, Jutta Gisela Sperling aims to debunk this myth and argues that the rise of forced vocations happened within the context of aristocratic culture and society. Sperling explains how women were not allowed to marry beneath their social status while men could, especially if their brides were wealthy. Faced with a shortage of suitable partners, patrician women were forced to offer themselves as "a gift not only to God, but to their fatherland", as Patriarch Giovanni Tiepolo told the Senate of Venice in 1619. Noting the declining birth rate among patrician women, Sperling explores the paradox of a marriage system that preserved the nobility at the price of its physical extinction. And on a more individual level, she tells the fascinating stories of these women. Some became scholars or advocates of women's rights, some took lovers and others escaped only to survive as servants, prostitutes or thieves.

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