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Chojnacki's The Power Of Love: Wives And Husbands
The Power of Love: Wives and Husbands was interesting and informative to read. The reading exposes the rich complexity of social relations among married patricians in late medieval Venice. Displaying married people’s enduring loyalty to family and lineage of origin, expressed symbolically by choice of curial sites which shows the deep trust and generosity between a husband and wife; like the will of Valerio and Vittoria Zeno. Such strong bonds between spouses have the potential to subvert older loyalties, notably those to the natal family and lineage.

Chojnacki is convincing and assertive within his writing. This chapter’s theme reminded me of the prior reading assignment, “The Most Serious Duty.” I made a connection between the two:
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