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Law and love: the Jewish family in early modern Italy
HOWARD TZVI ADELMAN
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In legal texts, women, acting on their own volition, are actually described as individuals in negative terms. This study examines clandestine betrothals and marriages; adultery, especially the treatment of adulterous women; the abused wife and her ability to initiate divorce proceedings against her husband; and testaments left with Christian notaries by Jewish women.
While they were limited by various laws and customs, individuals managed to use laws and social structures for their own advantage, negotiated space for themselves, and devised strategies to fulfil their wishes, which could be described as the pursuit of love, by circumventing obstacles placed in their way by communities, families, and the law. These practices raise questions about familial control, rabbinic authority, and communal power.

Victor Bailey, ‘This rash act’: suicide across the life cycle in the Victorian city. (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1998.) Pages xvi+349. £40·00.
DOUGLAS A. REID
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Keith Wrightson, Earthly necessities: economic lives in early modern Britain. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000.) Pages xii+372. £25.00.
MICHAEL ZELL
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Mia Korpiola (ed.), Nordic perspectives on medieval canon law. (Publications of the Matthias Calonius Society, II: Helsinki: Matthias Calonius Society, 1999.) Pages x+167.
ANDERS WINROTH
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Ludmilla Jordanova, History in practice. (London: Arnold, 2000.) Pages xvi+224. £9.99 (paperback).
MARTIN FARR
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Judith M. Bennett and Amy M. Froide (eds.), Singlewomen in the European past, 1250–1800. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.) Pages 304. £37.95; £15.50 (paperback).
PATRICIA CRAWFORD
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Adrian Davies, The Quakers in English society, 1655–1725. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000.) Pages xvi+262. £40.00.
JEREMY GREGORY
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P. Slack, From reformation to improvement: public welfare in early modern England. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.) Pages viii+179. £25.00.
STEVEN KING
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Clive Emsley, Gendarmes and the state in nineteenth-century Europe. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.) Pages xii+288. £50.00.
J. A. SHARPE
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Thomas Munck, The Enlightenment: a comparative social history, 1721–1794. (London: Arnold, 2000.) Pages xii+249. £65.00; £25.95 (paperback).
RAB HOUSTON
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Malcolm Gaskill, Crime and mentalities in early modern England. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.) Pages xiii + 377. £42.50.
ROBERT B. SHOEMAKER
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Jean Robin, The way we lived then. (Aldershot and Brookfield USA: Ashgate, 2000.) Pages xiv+168. £42.50.
BARRY REAY
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Susan E. Whyman, Sociability and power in late-Stuart England: the cultural worlds of the Verneys, 1660–1720. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.) Pages xiv+287. £55·00.
BERNARD CAPP
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Paul Griffiths and Mark S. R. Jenner (eds.), Londinopolis: essays in the cultural and social history of early modern London. (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2000.) Pages xi+284. £45.00; £16.99 (paperback).
ROBERT SHOEMAKER
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T. Stretton, Women waging law in Elizabethan England. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.) Pages xv+271. £35.00.
CHRISTINE PETERS
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Andy Wood, The politics of social conflict: the Peak Country, 1520–1770. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.) Pages xvi+354. £45.00.
R. W. HOYLE
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Anna Bryson, From courtesy to civility:changing codes of conduct in early modern England. (Oxford University Press, 1998.) Pages 322. £40.00.
R. MALCOLM SMUTS
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David J. Siddle (ed.), Migration, mobility and modernization. (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000.) Pages ix+225. £32.00; £14.95 (paperback).
GRAEME J. MILNE
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Mark Levene and Penny Roberts (eds.), The massacre in history. (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1999.) Pages xvi+296. £47.00.
PETER H. WILSON
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Elizabeth Ewan and Maureen M. Meikle (eds.), Women in Scotland c. 1100–c. 1750. (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1999.) Pages xxx+272. £14.99 (paperback).
PAMELA SHARPE
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Victor Bailey, ‘This rash act’: suicide across the life cycle in the Victorian city. (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1998.) Pages xvi+349. £40·00.

Keith Wrightson, Earthly necessities: economic lives in early modern Britain. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000.) Pages xii+372. £25.00.

Mia Korpiola (ed.), Nordic perspectives on medieval canon law. (Publications of the Matthias Calonius Society, II: Helsinki: Matthias Calonius Society, 1999.) Pages x+167.

Ludmilla Jordanova, History in practice. (London: Arnold, 2000.) Pages xvi+224. £9.99 (paperback).

Judith M. Bennett and Amy M. Froide (eds.), Singlewomen in the European past, 1250–1800. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.) Pages 304. £37.95; £15.50 (paperback).

Adrian Davies, The Quakers in English society, 1655–1725. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000.) Pages xvi+262. £40.00.

P. Slack, From reformation to improvement: public welfare in early modern England. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.) Pages viii+179. £25.00.

Clive Emsley, Gendarmes and the state in nineteenth-century Europe. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.) Pages xii+288. £50.00.

Thomas Munck, The Enlightenment: a comparative social history, 1721–1794. (London: Arnold, 2000.) Pages xii+249. £65.00; £25.95 (paperback).

Malcolm Gaskill, Crime and mentalities in early modern England. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.) Pages xiii + 377. £42.50.

Jean Robin, The way we lived then. (Aldershot and Brookfield USA: Ashgate, 2000.) Pages xiv+168. £42.50.

Susan E. Whyman, Sociability and power in late-Stuart England: the cultural worlds of the Verneys, 1660–1720. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.) Pages xiv+287. £55·00.

Paul Griffiths and Mark S. R. Jenner (eds.), Londinopolis: essays in the cultural and social history of early modern London. (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2000.) Pages xi+284. £45.00; £16.99 (paperback).

T. Stretton, Women waging law in Elizabethan England. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.) Pages xv+271. £35.00.

Andy Wood, The politics of social conflict: the Peak Country, 1520–1770. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.) Pages xvi+354. £45.00.

Anna Bryson, From courtesy to civility:changing codes of conduct in early modern England. (Oxford University Press, 1998.) Pages 322. £40.00.

David J. Siddle (ed.), Migration, mobility and modernization. (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000.) Pages ix+225. £32.00; £14.95 (paperback).

Mark Levene and Penny Roberts (eds.), The massacre in history. (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1999.) Pages xvi+296. £47.00.

Elizabeth Ewan and Maureen M. Meikle (eds.), Women in Scotland c. 1100–c. 1750. (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1999.) Pages xxx+272. £14.99 (paperback).

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