Negotiations of gender and property through legal regimes (14th-19th century) : : stipulating, litigating, mediating / / edited by Margareth Lanzinger [and four others].

This volume explores familial wealth arrangements and gendered property from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries in Italian, German and Austrian territories (including Florence, Trento, Tyrol, and Vienna), Nordic countries, Western Pyrenees, and England. Family property as capital in the form...

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Superior document:Legal history library ; Volume 48
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Legal history library ; Volume 48.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Families and property stipulating, litigating, mediating / Margareth Lanzinger, Janine Maegraith, Siglinde Clementi, Ellinor Forster, and Christian Hagen
  • The exclusion of women from inheritance rights an unresolved issue? / Simona Feci
  • Inheritance disputes from ingelheim court records on the threshold of the early modern period (fourteenth to fifteenth centuries) / Regina Schäfer
  • Landed property, power and female old age security in the Nordic countries / Beatrice Moring
  • Negotiating inheritance in the western Pyrenees in the nineteenth century - gender differentiated treatment and destinies / Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga
  • After the Plague. Women, marriage and property in Trento during the second half of the fourteenth century / Silvia Mattivi
  • Along family line and next of kin. Negotiating and safeguarding dowries and inheritance in late Medieval Tyrol / Christian Hagen
  • Gender imbalance in the use, ownership, and transmission of property in early modern southern tyrolean urban and rural contexts / Janine Maegraith
  • Family justice and public justice in dowry and inheritance conflicts between Florentine families (fourteenth to fifteenth centuries) / Isabelle Chabot
  • Border patrimonies. The transmission and claiming of property in women's everyday writings in sixteenth to eighteenth-century Friuli / Laura Casella
  • A dispute over guardianship. The Trentino-Tyrolean noble Trapp family between 1641 and 1656 / Siglinde Clementi
  • Little to leave labourers' goods and the probate process in early modern England / Craig Muldrew
  • Property, power, gender conflicts and agency of a "merchantess" in the archduchy of Austria below the Enns in the eighteenth century / Andrea Griesebner
  • After divorce disputes about property and the division of wealth in the context of divorce from bed and board (Vienna, 1783-1850) / Georg Tschannett
  • Wealth in its diverse meanings and contexts - concluding comment / Margareth Lanzinger.