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Donations, inheritance and property in the Nordic and Western world from late antiquity until today [electronic resource] / edited by Ole-Albert Rønning, Helle Møller Sigh and Helle Vogt.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Rønning, Ole-Albert (Editor), Sigh, Helle I. M. (Editor), Vogt, Helle (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2017.
Series:Routledge studies in cultural history.
Subjects:
Inheritance and succession > Europe > History.
Inheritance and succession > Scandinavia > History.
Gifts > Law and legislation > Scandinavia > History.
Gifts > Law and legislation > Europe > History.
Property > Scandinavia > History.
Property > Europe > History.
Gifts > Law and legislation.
Inheritance and succession.
Property.
Europe.
Scandinavia.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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