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Professor Kent is concerned with one of the major questions posed by historical research on the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance: did these periods witness the nuclearization of the aristocratic family? Considering three celebrated and representative Florentine ottimati lineages, the author reconstructs the histories and activities of scores o



Table of Contents
*Frontmatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*PREFACE, pg. vii*LIST OF MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS CITED, pg. xi*TWO EXPLANATORY NOTES, pg. xiii*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*PART ONE. THE HOUSEHOLD AND THE "NEAREST KINSMEN", pg. 19*PART TWO. THE LINEAGE AND ITS PARTS, pg. 119*CONCLUSION, pg. 293*GENEALOGICAL CHARTS, pg. 305*INDEX, pg. 309

Household and Lineage in Renaissance Florence

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 08/03/2015
      ISBN13: 9780691616728, 978-0691616728
      ISBN10: 0691616728

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Professor Kent is concerned with one of the major questions posed by historical research on the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance: did these periods witness the nuclearization of the aristocratic family? Considering three celebrated and representative Florentine ottimati lineages, the author reconstructs the histories and activities of scores o



      Table of Contents
      *Frontmatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*PREFACE, pg. vii*LIST OF MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS CITED, pg. xi*TWO EXPLANATORY NOTES, pg. xiii*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*PART ONE. THE HOUSEHOLD AND THE "NEAREST KINSMEN", pg. 19*PART TWO. THE LINEAGE AND ITS PARTS, pg. 119*CONCLUSION, pg. 293*GENEALOGICAL CHARTS, pg. 305*INDEX, pg. 309

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