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Women in the Fourteenth-Century Venetian Scuole*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Linda Guzzetti  and
Antje Ziemann
Linda Guzzetti
Affiliation:
Berlin, Germany [Guzzetti]
Antje Ziemann
Affiliation:
Marburg, Germany [Ziemann]
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Abstract

This article examines the presence of women in fourteenth-century Venetian scuole piccole and describes their participation. According to surviving confraternity statutes, women seldom shared in the governance of the entire confraternity. But female office holders were often responsible for their sisters in matters of illness, death, burial, and sometimes moral conduct. They also made contributions and left numerous legacies to their scuole. Membership lists sometimes reveal the social and occupational status of women. Information on one confraternity for women only, the Scuola d'Umiltà, survives.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 55 , Issue 4 , Winter 2002 , pp. 1151 - 1195
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 2002

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This article is the work of both authors. We would like to thank all who helped with information, advice, and encouragement: Irmgard Fees, Luca Molà, Andrea Mozzatto, Reinhold C. Mueller, Francesca Ortalli, Lorenza Pamato, Stefano Piasentin, Francesca Zanelli. We are grateful to Ricky Kurz and Steve Stapp for revising the English version, and RQ for its competent editorial support.

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