Affiliation:
1. École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Ehess)
Abstract
This chapter considers fourteenth-century Italian debates about the costs
of marriage to the work of a philosopher. Following Heloise’s famous
injunction against the idea of marriage to Abelard, when she railed against
the impact it would have upon his work, this chapter investigates how the
terms of this conversation were transformed by the insights of lay intellectuals
of cities like Arezzo, Bologna, and Florence, who were grappling
with the implications of fatherhood as part of the economic unit of the
household, and its role in the political life of the city.
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press