Negotiations of gender and property through legal regimes (14th-19th century) : stipulating, litigating, mediating
This volume offers a cross-period (14th-19th century) European comparison of different property regimes brought into conversation with inheritance patterns and resulting gender-specific negotiations and conflicts.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Boston : Brill,
2021
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Legal History Library
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| Schlagworte: | Marital property Inheritance and succession Women's rights Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (461 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | This volume offers a cross-period (14th-19th century) European comparison of different property regimes brought into conversation with inheritance patterns and resulting gender-specific negotiations and conflicts. Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Tables and Graphs -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Families and Property: Stipulating, Litigating, Mediating -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Stipulating - Litigating - Mediating -- 3 Family Property, Law, and Legal Custom in Southern Tyrol -- 4 Family Property at Stake: Approaches and Results -- 5 The Contributions -- References -- Part 1 Differentiated Patterns -- Chapter 2 The Exclusion of Women from Inheritance Rights: An Unresolved Issue? -- 1 Italian Statutes -- 2 Rivalry and Conflict -- 3 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3 Inheritance Disputes from Ingelheim Court Records on the Threshold of the Early Modern Period (Fourteenth to Fifteenth Centuries) -- 1 Ingelheim and the Ingelheim Court Records -- 2 Rules Regulating Inheritance -- 3 The Legal and Economic Position of Widows -- 4 Wives and Their Legal and Economic Standings -- 5 Litigate - Argue - Mediate -- References -- Chapter 4 Landed Property, Power, and Female Old Age Security in the Nordic Countries -- 1 The Data -- 2 The Legal and Economic Position of Married and Widowed Women in Nordic Society -- 3 Generational Transfer, the Single Heir System, and the Retirement Contract -- 4 Landownership and the Transfer from Oral to Written Agreements -- 5 Securing the Land and Life in Old Age, the Purpose of the Nineteenth Century Contract -- 6 The Structure of the Contract, Time and Place, and the Parties: the Female Voice -- 7 The Necessary Items - Grain, Milk, Potatoes -- 8 Quantities and Standard of Living -- 9 Men, Women, and Priorities -- 10 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5 Negotiating Inheritance in the Western Pyrenees in the Nineteenth Century - Gender Differentiated Treatment and Destinies -- 1 Sources and Methods -- 2 Inheritance According to Customs in the Old Regime. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (461 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789004456204 9004456201 9789004454187 9004454187 |