Marriage Rituals Italian Style - A Historical Anthropological Perspective on Early Modern Italian Jews

This work aims to present the wealth of primary documents elating to marriage rituals in Jewish Italian communities - response, private letters, court protocols, defamating books, love stories, material objects - and place them in historical context.

For those interested in Jewish history, early modern European history, social history, gender studies, anthropology and history, history of mentality, rituals, cultural encounter of Jews and Catholics, Mediterranean honor, family history, Italian history and culture.