Showing Women, Family and Ritual in Renaissance Italy by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber

Women, Family and Ritual in Renaissance Italy Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, a brilliant historian of the Annales school, skillfully uncovers the lives of ordinary Italians of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Tuscans in particular, young and old, rich, middle-class, and poor. From the extraordinarily detailed records kept by Florentine tax collectors and the equally precise "ricordanze" (household accounts with notations of events great an... Full description