Description: List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Law 1. Law and Arbitration in Renaissance Florence 2. Dispute Processing in the Renaissance: Some Florentine Examples 3. Conflicting Conceptions of Property in Quattrocento Florence: A Dispute over Ownership in 1425-26 Part Two: Family 4. Honor and Conflict in a Fifteenth-Century Florentine Family 5. A Reconsideration of Self-Disciplining Pacts among the Peruzzi of Florence 6. Reading between the Patrilines: Leon Battista Alberti's Della Famiglia in Light of His Illegitimacy 7. "As If Conceived within a Legitimate Marriage": A Dispute Concerning Legitimation in Quattrocento Florence Part Three: Women 8. Women, Marriage, and Patria Potestas in Late Medieval Florence 9. "Cum Consensu Mundualdi": Legal Guardianship of Women in Quattrocento Florence 10. Some Ambiguities of Female Inheritance Ideology in the Renaissance Appendix: Examples of Arbitration Notes Bibliography Index

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