Donations, inheritance and property in the Nordic and Western world from late antiquity until today / Edited by Ole-Albert Rnning, Helle Mller Sigh and Helle Vogt.

Donations, inheritance and property in the Nordic and Western world from late antiquity until today
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781315182704 (e-book : PDF)
9781351725965 (e-book: Mobi)
9781138195837 (hardback)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yayın Bilgisi
New York : Routledge, 2017.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource
Dizi
Routledge studies in cultural history
İçindekiler Notu
chapter Introduction / Ole-Albert Rønning Helle Møller Sigh Helle Vogt -- chapter 1 Gift-giving and inheritance strategies in late Roman law and legal practice 1 / Caroline Humfress -- chapter 2 The jurisprudence of the forced share in the ancient world -- Cicero to Justinian / Charles J. Reid -- chapter 3 The jurisprudence of the forced share -- The high and late Middle Ages / Charles J. Reid -- chapter 4 Inheritance in the lands of the Loire, 1050–1200 -- A contrast to Nordic and Roman practice / Amy Livingstone -- chapter 5 Protecting the individual, the kin and the soul -- Donation regulations in Danish and Norwegian medieval legislation / Helle Vogt -- chapter 6 By love and by law -- Choices of female donors in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Sweden / Anu Lahtinen -- chapter 7 Gender and donation culture in Iceland from 1300 to 1600 / Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir -- chapter 8 Luther’s last will and the invention of testamentary freedom / Mathias Schmoeckel -- chapter 9 Pious donations -- The act of giving in the Lutheran Church and its spatial implications / Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen -- chapter 10 The business of charity and the charity of business -- Donations in the Norwegian merchant town of Bergen in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde -- chapter 11 “Immortal mother and benefactor” -- Honorable dwellings for unmarried noblewomen and the dynamics of donations among the Danish elite from 1699 to 1745 / Helle Møller Sigh -- chapter 12 The age of miracles? Alms culture and charitable donations in Copenhagen, c.1770–1830 / Peter Wessel Hansen -- chapter 13 How to exchange with the dead -- The significance of heirlooms in contemporary Danish inheritance practices / Bodil Selmer -- chapter 14 Gifts to, from, and between spouses -- Present regulation in the Nordic countries / John Asland.
Konu
Gifts __ Law and legislation __ Europe __ History.
Gifts __ Law and legislation __ Scandinavia __ History.
Inheritance and succession __ Europe __ History.
Inheritance and succession __ Scandinavia __ History.
Property __ Europe __ History.
Property __ Scandinavia __ History.
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