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Based primarily on Inquisition trial records from all parts of the Italian peninsula, this study vividly illustrates the broad diffusion of Erasmus's ideas in Italy. Silvana Seidel Menchi's protagonists are not the sophisticated intellectuals previously linked to the "prince of humanists," but rather the shoemakers and druggists, goldsmiths and carpenters, weavers and soldiers, notaries and schoolmasters, priests and friars, physicians and students whose reading of Erasmus's works and acceptance of his message both enriched and complicated their lives. Italian Erasmians, like all Italian philo-Protestants, confronted an implacable adversary, the Roman Church and its Inquisition. Hence theirs was a destiny of marginalization and persecution. This innovative study makes a major contribution to our understanding of sixteenth-century Italian and European history in two important areas: the reception of Erasmus and the social dimensions of the Reformation

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- Women's History and Social History: Are Structures Necessary? -- The Querelle des Femmes as a Cultural Studies Paradigm -- Grammar in Arcadia -- The Girl and the Hourglass: Periodization of Women's Lives in Western Preindustrial Societies -- Part 2 -- Getting Back the Dowry: Venice, c. 1360–1530 -- Daughters, Mothers, Wives, and Widows: Women as Legal Persons -- Women Married Elsewhere: Gender and Citizenship in Italy -- Part 3 -- "Saints" and "Witches": in Early Modern Italy: Stepsisters or Strangers? -- The Dimensions of the Cloister: Enclosure, Constraint, and Protection in Seventeenth-Century Italy -- The Third Status -- Part 4 -- "Non lo volevo per marito: in modo alcuno": Forced Marriages, Generational Conflicts, and the Limits of Patriarchal Power in Early Modern Venice, c. 1580–1680 -- Becoming a Mother in the: Seventeenth Century: The Experience of a Roman Noblewoman -- Space, Time, and the Power of Aristocratic Wives in Yorkist and Early Tudor England, 1450–1550 -- Eighteenth-Century Marriage Contracts: Linking Legal and Gender History -- Part 5 -- En-Gendering Selfhood: Defining Differences and Forging Identities in Early Modern Europe -- Construction of Masculinity and Male Identity in Personal Testimonies: Hans Von Schweinichen (1552–1616) in His Memorial -- About the Contributors -- Index