Background
Ferraro, Joanne M. was born on May 22, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Daughter of Corrado and Jennie Grace Ferraro.
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This book focuses on the behavior of the ruling families of Brescia, a rich and strategically vital city under Venetian rule, during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. The first part of the book conceptualizes the civic leadership of Brescia, with a profile of its origins and a brief history of the process of aristocratization. Further, it examines the relationship between family structure and the local socio-political structures. Size, wealth, education, and marriage ties were all pivotal factors which helped determine the family's position in public life. Its strength rested ultimately on its continuity over time. Women and women's property are given careful attention. The second part places the Brescian elite within the Venetian state. Besides controlling urban political institutions, the Brescians held strong economic links with the surrounding countryside, the basis of their power, and they enjoyed ample authority in the rural communities subject to the city.
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(Based on a fascinating body of previously unexamined arch...)
Based on a fascinating body of previously unexamined archival material, this book brings to life the lost voices of ordinary Venetians during the age of Catholic revival. Looking at scripts that were brought to the city's ecclesiastical courts by spouses seeking to annul their marriage vows, this book opens up the emotional world of intimacy and conflict, sexuality, and living arrangements that did not fit normative models of marriage.
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Ferraro, Joanne M. was born on May 22, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Daughter of Corrado and Jennie Grace Ferraro.
Bachelor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1973. Master of Arts, University of California at Los Angeles, 1975. Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1983.
Assistant professor history San Diego State University, 1984—1989, associate professor history, 1989—1993, professor history, since 1993.
(This book focuses on the behavior of the ruling families ...)
(Based on a fascinating body of previously unexamined arch...)