(Source: Routledge)
Routledge is publishing a new
book on immobile property and mobile goods in Early Modern Europe.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This interdisciplinary volume
discusses the division of the early modern material world into the important
legal, economic and personal categories of mobile and immobile property,
possession and the rights to usufruct.
The essays describe and compare
different modes of acquisition and inter-generational transfer via law and
custom. The varying perspectives, including cultural history, legal history,
social and economic history, philosophy and law, allows for a more nuanced
understanding of the links between the movability of an object and the gender
of the person who owned, possessed or used it. Case studies and examples come
from a wide geographical range including Norway, Scotland, Italy, Tyrol,
Greece, Romania, Brazil, Jamaica and the English colonies. By covering both
urban and rural areas and exploring all social groups, from ruling elites to
the lower strata of society, the essays offer fresh insight into the division
of mobile and immobile property that socially and economically posed
disadvantages for women.
By exploring a broad scope of
topics including landownership, marriage contracts, slaveholding and the dowry,
this book is an essential resource for both researchers and students of women’s
history, social and economic history and material culture.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Annette Caroline Cremer is
an Assistant Professor at the History Faculty at Giessen University, Germany.
She has published several books in the field of material culture research,
European cultural history in the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries, court
culture and gender history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Gender, Law and Material
Culture
Annette Caroline Cremer
2. Early modern political
philosophy on rights of ownership
Amelie Stuart
Part 1: Gifts, Symbolic values
and Strategies
3. Real Estates as Marital Gifts.
Women and Landownership in 15th century Norway
Susann Anett Pedersen
4. Married Women's Testaments:
Division and Distribution of Moveable Property in Seventeenth-Century Glasgow
Rebecca Mason
5. Hybrid legal Cultures among
the Early Modern Tyrolean Nobility. Marriage Contracts and the symbolic Value
of Assets
Siglinde Clementi
Part 2: Women's Access to
immobile Property
6. Fenced in or out? Women and
Landownserhip in early modern southern Tyrol
Janine Maegraith
7. Women, Land and Usufruct in
the 18th-century Ottoman Empire: A Caste Study of Vidin and Antakya
Fatma Gül Karagöz
Part 3: Women, Law and
Property in colonial contexts
8. In Her Own Right. Gender,
Slaveholding, and Moveable Goods in Colonial Jamaica
Christine Walker
9. Land, Slaves and Honour -
Women's Ownership and Possession in Colonial Brazil (Paraíba)
Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva
Part 4: Women and Property in
transitory Zones
10. Women and Movable Goods in
Maritime Border Economy in 19th century Sicily (Aeolian Islands)
Ida Fazio
11. Stamp duty and the
transformation of the dowry in 19th century Greece
Evdoxios Doxiadis
12. Starting a Married Life.
Women and Goods in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Romanian Towns of Piteși and
Câmpulung
Nicoleta Roman
Part 5: Synthesis
13. Movable Goods and Immovable
Property - Interrelated Perspectives
Margareth Lanzinger
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