The Dowry Fund: Mortality, Marriage and Patrimony in Renaissance Florence
FAIN: RO-20413-82
University of Chicago (Chicago, IL 60637-5418)
Julius Kirshner (Project Director: March 1982 to October 1990)
This project also received funding with the previous award listed below.
Previous award RO-*1437-79
To support research on the Dowry Fund, the chief fiscal institution of Renaissance Florence. Two historians and an epidemiologist will study patternsof mortality, marriage, and patrimony in Renaissance Florence.