Beschreibung:
This is the first book to investigate systematically the roles of Church and State in stabilising moral order after the Catholic Reform. It focuses on Venice, examining how civil and ecclesiastical courts dealt with conflicts related to marriage and sex, in an effort to enforce their vision of a morally ordered society.
Contents: Introduction; Venice and its tribunals; The Church and marital disputes: Marital litigation and the patriarchal court; Generational conflicts; Marital discord; Sexuality, the body, and unstable masculinities; The state and crimes related to marriage: The sinful city; The threat to conjugal households: adultery and bigamy; Conclusion; Index.