Joanne M. Ferraro is Albert W. Johnson Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at San Diego State University, USA. She is the author of Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice (2001), which won both the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Book Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies and the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Book Prize. She is also the author of Venice: History of the Floating City (2012), Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557- 1789 (2008) and Family and Public Life in Brescia, 1580-1650 (1993).

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• List of IllustrationsGeneral Editor’s Preface, Joanne M. Ferraro (San Diego State University, USA)Introduction, Frederik Pederson (University of Aberdeen, UK)1. Courtship and Ritual, Edith J. Benkov (San Diego State University, USA)2. Religion, Line Cecilie Engh (University of Oslo, Norway)3. State and Law, Thomas Kuehn (Clemson University, USA)4. The Ties That Bind, Sally Dixon-Smith (Tower of London for Historic Royal Palaces, UK) and April Harper (SUNY Oneonta, USA)5. The Family Economy, Frederik Pederson (University of Aberdeen, UK)6. Love, Sex, and Sexuality, Ruth Mazzo Karras (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)7. Breaking Vows, Sara M. Butler (Ohio State University, USA)8. Representation, Harriet M. Sonne de Torrens (University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada)NotesBibliographyContributorsIndex

Joanne M. Ferraro is Albert W. Johnson Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at San Diego State University, USA. She is the author of Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice (2001), which won both the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Book Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies and the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Book Prize. She is also the author of Venice: History of the Floating City (2012), Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557- 1789 (2008) and Family and Public Life in Brescia, 1580-1650 (1993).

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• List of IllustrationsGeneral Editor’s Preface, Joanne M. Ferraro (San Diego State University, USA)Introduction, Frederik Pederson (University of Aberdeen, UK)1. Courtship and Ritual, Edith J. Benkov (San Diego State University, USA)2. Religion, Line Cecilie Engh (University of Oslo, Norway)3. State and Law, Thomas Kuehn (Clemson University, USA)4. The Ties That Bind, Sally Dixon-Smith (Tower of London for Historic Royal Palaces, UK) and April Harper (SUNY Oneonta, USA)5. The Family Economy, Frederik Pederson (University of Aberdeen, UK)6. Love, Sex, and Sexuality, Ruth Mazzo Karras (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)7. Breaking Vows, Sara M. Butler (Ohio State University, USA)8. Representation, Harriet M. Sonne de Torrens (University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada)NotesBibliographyContributorsIndex