Reposted by Dr. Barry Torch
Would you like to learn about the strange and scandalous way some 18th-century Venetians got out of dysfunctional marriages? Read my new article (open access!) about annulments for affinity by fornication!
#earlymodern #18thcentury
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Keeping It (Too Much) in the Family: Annulment by Reason of Affinity in Eighteenth-Century Venice | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core
Keeping It (Too Much) in the Family: Annulment by Reason of Affinity in Eighteenth-Century Venice