Monica Chojnacka

Biographic Data

ID2185668
NAMEMonica Chojnacka
GIVEN NAMESMonica
FAMILY NAMEChojnacka
SIGNATURECHOJNACKA M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Georgia
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX1

  • The Wealth of Wives

    Francesco Barbaro, Margaret L King et al.ARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2017

    Barbaro, Francesco. The Wealth of Wives: A Fifteenth-Century Marriage Manual. Ed. and trans. Margaret L. King. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 39, Number 3, Summer 2016, pp. 5-221), on Érudit

  • Humanism, Venice, and Women

    Open AccessMonica ChojnackaARTICLERenaissance Studies2007

  • Family Memoirs from Verona and Vicenza (15th-16th Centuries) . James S. Grubb

    Monica ChojnackaARTICLESpeculum2005

  • Working Women of Early Modern Venice

    Monica Chojnacka, Silvia EvangelistiARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2002

    Working Women in Early Modern Venice is an excellent read, which offers a multifaceted picture of Venetian women in the late sixteenth and the early seventeenth centuries.The book certainly fulfils the expectations evoked by its title by focusing in particular on women of lower status -the popolane.Chojnacka traces their existence as married women, spinsters, and widows, and their experiences of living at home with their families, with female and…

  • Women, Men, and Residential Patterns in Early Modern Venice

    Open AccessMonica ChojnackaARTICLEJournal of Family History2000

    This article examines the residential patterns of early modern Venetians by using a collection of parish censuses from the end of the sixteenth century. Their analysis reveals much about Venetian families and the networks forged among individuals, especially women, in this period. There was no one residential pattern for early modern Venetians; rather, women and men might choose from a range of housing options, with marital status the most import…

  • Women, Charity and Community in Early Modern Venice

    Open AccessMonica ChojnackaARTICLERenaissance Quarterly1998Cited by: 5References: 1

    This article examines the Casa delle Zitelle, a charitable institution for young women at risk of falling into prostitution, in early modern Venice. Founded by a group of deeply religious noblewomen, the Casa reflected the social anxieties of the time that linked social ills to prostitution, as well as a new spirit of social activism inspired by religious conviction on the part of the city's elite. The Casa also created a new type of female commu…