Men’s Honour, Women’s Lives
Peter Burke, 6 March 1986
Trial by Impotence: Virility and Marriage in Pre-Revolutionary France
by Pierre Darmon, translated by Paul Keegan.
Chatto, 234 pp., £10.95, March 1985,9780701129149 Show More
by Pierre Darmon, translated by Paul Keegan.
Chatto, 234 pp., £10.95, March 1985,
The Boundaries of Eros: Sex, Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice
by Guido Ruggiero.
Oxford, 223 pp., £25, March 1985,0 19 503465 1 Show More
by Guido Ruggiero.
Oxford, 223 pp., £25, March 1985,
The Tuscans and their Families: A Study of the Florentine Catasto of 1427
by David Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber.
Yale, 404 pp., £32, March 1985,0 300 03056 8 Show More
by David Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber.
Yale, 404 pp., £32, March 1985,
Women, Family and Ritual in Renaissance Italy
by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, translated by Lydia Cochrane.
Chicago, 338 pp., £25.50, September 1985,0 226 43925 9 Show More
by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, translated by Lydia Cochrane.
Chicago, 338 pp., £25.50, September 1985,
French Women in the Age of Enlightenment
edited by Samia Spencer.
Indiana, 429 pp., $35, November 1984,0 253 32481 5 Show More
edited by Samia Spencer.
Indiana, 429 pp., $35, November 1984,
“... And if you know of any impediments, either of consanguinity, affinity or spiritual relationship, or of any other reason why these two should not be joined in holy matrimony, you are bound to declare the same to us as soon as possible.’ As a child, hearing the banns read out in church, I used to wonder idly what kind of ‘other reason’ there might be ... ”
