Table of Contents:
  • Noble status and social differentiation in early modern Europe
  • The Avogaria di Comun and the Prove de Nobilta
  • Outsider brides and their families
  • Huomini civili and patrician marriage
  • The social dimensions of acceptability
  • Concubines and natural daughters
  • Gender and honourable, and dishonourable behaviour
  • Marriage and the patriciate.