Informal Marriages in Early Modern Venice

Conditions of the marriage market, the sexual culture of Venice, and family needs created social tensions. This book explores a family model that soothed these tensions. Long-term, stable, non-marital relationships were common, and the community regularly accepted concubinaries, concubinal relationships, and the offspring concubinage produced.Jana Byars is an independent scholar based in Amsterdam.

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1. Introduction 2. Concubinaries 3. Authorities 4. Family 5. Individuals 6. Conclusions