Accounting for affection : mothering and politics in early modern Rome /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Castiglione, Caroline (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Series:	Early modern history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Subjects:	1420-1798 Families > Italy > Rome > History > 17th century. Mothers > Italy > Rome > History > 17th century. Rome (Italy) > History > 1420-1798. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Practicing Motherhood When the Definition of 'Family' is Ambiguous: Anna Colonna and the Barberini Dynasty, 1627-1647
2. The Interests Common to Us All: Olimpia Giustiniani on the Governing of the Roman Aristocratic Family
3. At the Nexus of Impossibility: The Medical and the Maternal in Seventeenth-Century Rome
4. Ippolita's Wager: Letting Daughters Decide in the Early Eighteenth Century
5. Extravagant Pretensions: The Triumph of Maternal Love in the World of Rome
Conclusion
Appendices.