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In trying to explain why unprecedented numbers of patrician women did not marry, historians have claimed that dowries became too expensive. However, this text aims to debunk this myth and argues that the rise of forced vocations happened within the context of aristocratic culture and society.

Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance

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    A Paperback / softback by Jutta Gisela Sperling

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/03/2000
      ISBN13: 9780226769363, 978-0226769363
      ISBN10: 0226769364

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In trying to explain why unprecedented numbers of patrician women did not marry, historians have claimed that dowries became too expensive. However, this text aims to debunk this myth and argues that the rise of forced vocations happened within the context of aristocratic culture and society.

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