History of the Family

Il bicentenario della nascita di Francesco Aggazzotti nel centocinquantesimo dell’Unità Nazionale. All’origine dell’idea di Lambruschi modenesi e di Aceto Balsamico

by Riccardo Fangarezzi

in «Atti e Memorie della Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Antiche Provincie Modenesi», s. 11, vol. 34 (2012), pp. 367-371

Resume of the bicentennial and of the book published in 2012 with similar title Resume of the bicentennial and of the book published in 2012 with similar title

Marriage and Consent in Pretridentine Venice: Between Lay Conception and Ecclesiastical Conception, 1420-1545. In: The Sixteenth Century Journal, 39, 2008, 389-418.

by Cecilia Cristellon

The main sources of this article are 750 matrimonial trials discussed before the ecclesiastical court in Venice... more The main sources of this article are 750 matrimonial trials discussed before the ecclesiastical court in Venice (1420-1545). This article analyzes the differing conceptions of marriage held by the laity and by the ecclesiastical hierarchy as these ideas were expressed in a dialectical relationship in court. Central to this analysis is the concept of consent, since consent, with widely differing interpretations, formed the foundation and the essence of both canonical and lay customary marriage. In the pre-Tridentine ecclesiastical court, custom played a leading role in deciding matters related to the marriage bond. These sources allow access to aspects of marriage that are usually not recorded and make it possible to reevaluate social phenomena which have been defined from a post-Tridentine perspective as transgressive. Practices such as bigamy, concubinage, and stuprum appear not as deviant, but as part of socially accepted marital behavior that is much broader and more heterogeneous than historians have appreciated.

Legge, matrimonio, società. Incontro con Charles Donahue jr. In: Rivista Storica Italiana, 3 (2011), 1130-1179.

by Cecilia Cristellon

Co-authored with Silvana Seidel Menchi

El matrimonio antes del Concilio de Trento en la República de Venecia, in: I. Arellano, J. M. Usunaríz (ed.), El matrimonio en Europa y en el mundo hispánico: siglos XVI y XVII, Madrid: Visor Libros, 2005, 187-195.

by Cecilia Cristellon

Ursina Basso contro Alvise Soncin: il "consilium" respinto di Bartolomeo Cipolla e gli atti del processo (Padova e Venezia 1461-1462), in: S. Seidel Menchi, D. Quaglioni (ed.), Matrimoni in dubbio. Unioni controverse e nozze clandestine in Italia dal XIV al XVIII secolo, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2001, 279-303.

by Cecilia Cristellon

Words or Gestures? Marriage Rituals in Renaissance Italy: Continuity and Change, 1400-1600, in: Regional Variations in Matrimonial Law and Custom in Europe, 1150- 1600, Ed. Korpiola, M. (Leiden: Brill, 2011), 275-287.

by Cecilia Cristellon

Co-authored with Silvana Seidel Menchi

I processi matrimoniali veneziani. In: Tribunali del matrimonio (secoli XV-XVIII), Hg. Seidel Menchi, S., Quaglioni, D. (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2006), 101-122.

by Cecilia Cristellon

Does the Priest Have to Be There? Contested Marriages Before Roman Tribunals. Italy, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries. In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 3, 2009, 10-30.

by Cecilia Cristellon

The Council of Trent established the requirements that a marriage be celebrated by the parish priest and two or more... more The Council of Trent established the requirements that a marriage be celebrated by the parish priest and two or more witnesses be present at the marriage (1563), but neglected to specify who the parish priest was. The decrees provoked confusion among both laymen and churchmen. Traces thereof can be found in the hitherto essentially unexplored documentation of The Congregation of the Council. This institution was founded in 1564 specifically to resolve the questions that arose all over the catholic world by the application of the decrees promulgated at Trent. The related records are held in the Vatican Secret Archive. Through an examination of this documentation, complemented by files of the Holy Office the author analyzes how the new rules were understood, experienced, used, circumvented, and manipulated both by laymen and churchmen in order to end an unwanted marriage, to facilitate a union that was socially transgressive, opposed by family, or even heterodox, and to respond to pastoral concerns.

הגנה על זכויות האישה על-פי הסכמי נישואין מן הגניזה הקהירית ומקורות ערביים מקבילים

by Amir Ashur

Publicidad y libertad en el matrimonio: autoridad paterna y dispensa de amonestaciones en Lima, 1600-1650

by Pilar Latasa

J. Mª Usunáriz y R. García Bourrellier (ed.), Padres e hijos ante el matrimonio: España y el Mundo Hispánico (siglos XVI-XVIII), Madrid, Visor Libros, 2008, pp. 53-67.

Se estudian las causas que llevaron a pedir dispensa de amonestaciones ante el tribunal eclesiástico de Lima a pesar... more Se estudian las causas que llevaron a pedir dispensa de amonestaciones ante el tribunal eclesiástico de Lima a pesar de ser un requisito tan claramente explicitado por Trento? En este trabajo se hace una aproximación a aquellas relacionadas con la coerción ejercida sobre los novios por parte de sus padres y parientes. Esta primera aproximación al tema nos permite afirmar que la mayor parte de las veces, la oposición familiar vino motivada por el rechazo hacia un matrimonio socialmente «desigual».

La promesa de una farsanta: teatro y matrimonio en Lima, siglo XVII

by Pilar Latasa

El teatro en la Hispanoamérica colonial, I. Arellano y J. A. Rodríguez Garrido (eds.), Madrid, Iberoamericana, 2008, pp. 145-166.

Estudio de un pleito por incumplimiento de la promesa de matrimonio promovido por la actriz María de Torres Tamayo en... more Estudio de un pleito por incumplimiento de la promesa de matrimonio promovido por la actriz María de Torres Tamayo en 1646 ante el tribunal eclesiástico de la archidiócesis de Lima. Su análisis permite confirmar el prejuicio existente en el mundo hispánico del Siglo del Oro hacia las mujeres que desempeñaban esta profesión.

La celebración del matrimonio en el virreinato peruano: disposiciones sinodales de Charcas y Lima (1570-1613)

by Pilar Latasa

El matrimonio en Europa y el mundo hispánico. Siglos XVI y XVII, Ignacio Arellano y Jesús Mª Usunáriz (eds.), Visor Libros, Madrid, 2005, pp. 237-256.

En este trabajo se analiza la plasmación que la nueva regulación canónica sobre la celebración del matrimonio tuvo en... more En este trabajo se analiza la plasmación que la nueva regulación canónica sobre la celebración del matrimonio tuvo en las actas sinodales de las dos principales archidiócesis del virreinato peruano: Lima y La Plata. Con ese fin, se han analizado las constituciones de los sínodos reunidos entre 1570 y 1613 dentro de las diócesis dependientes entonces de estas dos grandes jurisdicciones eclesiásticas; es decir, las del Cuzco, Quito, Trujillo, Arequipa, Huamanga, Popayán, Panamá, Santiago de Chile y La Imperial, Tucumán, Asunción, La Paz y Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

Casato e fazione nella Lombardia del Quattrocento. Il caso di Parma

by Marco Gentile

in A. Bellavitis, I. Chabot (a cura di), Famiglie e poteri in Italia tra Medioevo ed Età moderna, Roma, École Française de Rome (Collection de l'École Française de Rome, 422), pp. 151-187

The presence of highly structured factions is a key-feature of lombard political society throughout the later Middle... more The presence of highly structured factions is a key-feature of lombard political society throughout the later Middle Ages until well into the Cinquecento. This essay explores the nature of factional groups in 15th century Parma, where they operate as a means of political action at informal but also at institutional level. Far from being loose networks kept together by the temporary interests of individuals, factions appear to be built around the political traditions of urban lineages and the long-term patronage ties which connected them to the four major families of the local landed nobility. Parma’s case study provides useful insights into relevant issues: the relations between kinship and factional membership, the political cohesion of the lineage, the influence of structural factors on the political choices of the individual, the interrelations between feud and faction.

Hidden Fathers? The Significance of Fatherhood in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain

by Laura King

Si domus in pace sunt. Zur Bedeutung des Hauses in Luthers Vorstellungen vom weltlichen Frieden, in: Lutherjahrbuch 78 (2011), S. 153-186

by Inken Schmidt-Voges

Loving Couples for a Modern Nation: A New Family Model in Late-Nineteenth-Century Japan

by Jean-Michel Butel

english and more complete version of a former paper in french

This paper will examine the debates surrounding the couple and conjugal love which took place in the periodical Jogaku... more This paper will examine the debates surrounding the couple and conjugal love which took place in the periodical Jogaku Zasshi (The Woman’s Magazine) throughout the last third of the nineteenth century. Run by Iwamoto Yoshiharu (1863-1942), this magazine appears to have been the place of reflection on the specificities of Western love, the poor nature of the pre-modern types of love and the need to transpose this particular kind of love – the only one befitting a civilised nation – to Japan. At stake here was the establishment of an ideal model for the modern couple. Iwamoto was not seeking a revolution. Yet in fighting for a new family model based on equality between husband and wife, he laid the groundwork for the changes that Japan would undergo throughout the entire twentieth century. His modernity competed with the modernity of the editors of the first Civil Code, over which it would triumph a century later.

To Be Is to Betray

by Eyal Rozmarin

'Finding the Family in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland'

by Harriet Cornell

Book Review published in Cultural and Social History, Volume 7, Number 1, March 2010 , pp. 125-126(2).

The One Great Discontinuity: African American Recontructions of the American Family Idyll

by Gerald David Naughton

From doctoral thesis submitted to University College Dublin in 2008

This study analyses the link between America's first and second Reconstructions and the trope of family. The thesis... more This study analyses the link between America's first and second Reconstructions and the trope of family. The thesis focusses predominantly on African American writing that has been produced from within the symbolic terrain of American family. Novelists considered include William Wells Brown, Harriet Wilson, Sutton E. Griggs, James Weldon Johnston, and Charles Chesnutt. The study concludes with a comparative analysis of James Baldwin and Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Genealogía e Historia Social: el ejemplo de Marina Fernández de Vera en Tegueste

by Roberto J. Gonzalez Zalacain