The Marital Economy In Scandinavia And Britain 1400 1900

Author : Maria Ågren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351885980

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The Marital Economy in Scandinavia and Britain 1400–1900 by Maria Ågren Pdf

Marriage today is our prime social and legal institution. Historically, it was also the principal economic institution. This collection of essays offers a wealth of original research into the economic, social and legal history of the marital partnership in northern Europe over a 500-year period. Erickson's introduction explores the concept of the marital economy and sketches the legal and economic background across the region. Chapters by Ågren, Gudrun Andersson, Agnes Arnórsdóttir, Inger Dübeck, Elizabeth Ewan, Rosemarie Fiebranz, Catherine Frances, Hanne Johansen, Ann-Catrin Östman, Anu Pylkkänen, Hilde Sandvik and Jane Whittle, are organized according to the three economic stages of the marital life-cycle: forming the partnership; managing the partnership; and dissolving the partnership. In conclusion, Michael Roberts explores how the historical development of modern economic theory has removed marriage from its central position at the heart of the economy.

Author : Amy Louise Erickson,Maria Ågren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1315238411

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The Marital Economy in Scandinavia and Britain, 1400-1900 by Amy Louise Erickson,Maria Ågren Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004435582

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Nordic Inheritance Law through the Ages by Anonim Pdf

The articles in Nordic Inheritance Law through the Ages – Spaces of Action and Legal Strategies explore the significance of inheritance law through the use of topical and in-depth studies that bring life to historical and contemporary Nordic inheritance law practices.

Author : Mia Korpiola
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047426769

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Between Betrothal and Bedding by Mia Korpiola Pdf

Investigating the interaction and tension between Swedish and canonical marriage formation, and the later Lutheran influence, the book offers a case study of marriage formation as a process and the mechanisms of legal reception in medieval and Reformation Sweden.

Author : Barbara A. Hanawalt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190295226

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The Wealth of Wives by Barbara A. Hanawalt Pdf

London became an international center for import and export trade in the late Middle Ages. The export of wool, the development of luxury crafts and the redistribution of goods from the continent made London one of the leading commercial cities of Europe. While capital for these ventures came from a variety of sources, the recirculation of wealth through London women was important in providing both material and social capital for the growth of London's economy. A shrewd Venetian visiting England around 1500 commented about the concentration of wealth and property in women's hands. He reported that London law divided a testator's property three ways allowing a third to the wife for her life use, a third for immediate inheritance of the heirs, and a third for burial and the benefit of the testator's soul. Women inherited equally with men and widows had custody of the wealth of minor children. In a society in which marriage was assumed to be a natural state for women, London women married and remarried. Their wealth followed them in their marriages and was it was administered by subsequent husbands. This study, based on extensive use of primary source materials, shows that London's economic growth was in part due to the substantial wealth that women transmitted through marriage. The Italian visitor observed that London men, unlike Venetians, did not seek to establish long patrilineages discouraging women to remarry, but instead preferred to recirculate wealth through women. London's social structure, therefore, was horizontal, spreading wealth among guilds rather than lineages. The liquidity of wealth was important to a growing commercial society and women brought not only wealth but social prestige and trade skills as well into their marriages. But marriage was not the only economic activity of women. London law permitted women to trade in their own right as femmes soles and a number of women, many of them immigrants from the countryside, served as wage laborers. But London's archives confirm women's chief economic impact was felt in the capital and skill they brought with them to marriages, rather than their profits as independent traders or wage laborers.

Author : Susann Anett Pedersen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004547865

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Propertied Women’s Economic Agency in Norway c.1400-1550 by Susann Anett Pedersen Pdf

In this first comprehensive study of women as economic actors in medieval Norway, Susann Anett Pedersen analyses the economic agency of unmarried heiresses, wives and widows c.1400-1550. Drawing on sources such as sales contracts and private letter correspondence, the book investigates elite women’s formal and informal roles in decision making processes and their ability to make independent economic choices. In particular, the book stresses the importance of looking beyond the legal regulation of women’s economic activities and rather analyses women’s own actions, in order to better grasp the complexity of their economic agency.

Author : Maria Ågren
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0807898457

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Domestic Secrets by Maria Ågren Pdf

Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women's role in the Swedish economy was renegotiated and reconceptualized. Maria Agren chronicles changes in married women's property rights, revealing the story of Swedish women's property as not just a simple narrative of the erosion of legal rights, but a more complex tale of unintended consequences. A public sphere of influence--including the wife's family and the local community--held sway over spousal property rights throughout most of the seventeenth century, Agren argues. Around 1700, a campaign to codify spousal property rights as an arcanum domesticum, or domestic secret, aimed to increase efficiency in legal decision making. New regulatory changes indeed reduced familial interference, but they also made families less likely to give land to women. The advent of the print medium ushered property issues back into the public sphere, this time on a national scale, Agren explains. Mass politicization increased sympathy for women, and public debate popularized more progressive ideas about the economic contributions of women to marriage, leading to mid-nineteenth-century legal reforms that were more favorable to women. Agren's work enhances our understanding of how societies have conceived of women's contributions to the fundamental institutions of marriage and the family, using as an example a country with far-reaching influence during and after the Enlightenment.

Author : Annette Caroline Cremer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000204209

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Gender, Law and Material Culture by Annette Caroline Cremer Pdf

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 chapters describe and compare different modes of acquisition and intergenerational transfer via law and custom. The varying perspectives, including cultural history, legal history, social and economic history, philosophy, and law, allow 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, England, Scotland, the Holy Roman Empire, Italy, Tyrol, the Ottoman Empire, Greece, Romania, and the European colonies in Brazil and Jamaica. By covering both urban and rural areas and exploring all social groups, from ruling elites to the lower strata of society, the chapters 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.

Author : Anna Bellavitis,Beatrice Zucca Micheletto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351334211

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Gender, Law and Economic Well-Being in Europe from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century by Anna Bellavitis,Beatrice Zucca Micheletto Pdf

This book offers a comparative perspective on Northern and Southern European laws and customs concerning women’s property and economic rights. By focusing on both Northern and Southern European societies, these studies analyse the consequences of different juridical frameworks and norms on the development of the economic roles of men and women. This volume is divided into three parts. The first, Laws, presents general outlines related to some European regions; the second, Family strategies or marital economies?, questions the potential conflict between the economic interests of the married couple and those of the lineage within the nobility; finally, the third part of the book, Inside the urban economy, focuses on economic and work activities of middle and lower classes in the urban environment. The assorted and rich panorama offered by the history of the legislation on women’s economic rights shows that similarities and differences run through Europe in such a way that the North/South model looks very stereotyped. While this approach calls into question classical geographical and cultural maps and well-established chronologies, it encourages a reconsideration of European history according to a cross-boundaries perspective. By drawing on a wide range of social, economic and cultural European contexts, from the late medieval to early modern age to the nineteenth century, and including the middle and lower classes (especially artisans, merchants and traders) as well as the economic practices and norms of the upper middle class and aristocracy, this book will be of interest to economic and social historians, sociologists of health, gender and sexuality, and economists.

Author : Jarna Heinonen,Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351796583

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Women in Business Families by Jarna Heinonen,Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen Pdf

For centuries, almost all economic activity was family-based. The family business rested on the division of labor among family members. Therefore the family was both socially and economically the foundation of the family business. Families were not only production units, but also education and consumption units that conveyed norm structures, values and professional identity to next generation. Although female family members have always been active participants in family businesses over the centuries, their role has often been neglected in previous studies. Women in Business Families: From Past to Present presents both conceptual and theoretically informed empirical papers addressing three related themes relevant for family business and gender in past and in present: heroic women entrepreneurs; invisibility / visibility of women in businesses; and business succession. The book Women in Business Families: From Past to Present balances between both historical and contemporary analyses. The chapters integrate the notions of time and gender in focusing on family businesses or business families in past and in present. This volume will be of vital reading to researchers and academics in the fields of Gender Studies, Family Business, Organizational studies, Entrepreneurship and the various related disciplines.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004456204

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Negotiations of Gender and Property through Legal Regimes (14th-19th Century) by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : Isabelle Devos,Julie De Groot,Ariadne Schmidt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137406408

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Single Life and the City 1200-1900 by Isabelle Devos,Julie De Groot,Ariadne Schmidt Pdf

By taking on a long-term perspective, a large geographical scope and moving beyond the homogeneous treatment of single people, this book fleshes out the particularities of urban singles and allows for a better understanding of the attitudes and values underlying this lifestyle in the European past.

Author : Lyndan Warner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351209052

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Stepfamilies in Europe, 1400-1800 by Lyndan Warner Pdf

Stepfamilies were as common in the European past as they are today. Stepfamilies in Europe, 1400–1800 is the first in-depth study to chart four centuries of continuity and change for these complex families created by the death of a parent and the remarriage of the survivor. With geographic coverage from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia and from the Atlantic coast to Central Europe, this collection of essays from leading scholars compares how religious affiliation, laws and cultural attitudes shaped stepfamily realities. Exploring stepfamilies across society from artisans to princely rulers, this book considers the impact of remarriage on the bonds between parents and their children, stepparents and stepchildren, while offering insights into the relationships between full siblings, half siblings and stepsiblings. The contributors investigate a variety of primary sources from songs to letters and memoirs, printed Protestant funeral works, Catholic dispensation requests, kinship puzzles, legitimation petitions, and documents drawn up by notaries, to understand the experiences and life cycle of a family and its members – whether growing up as a stepchild or forming a stepfamily through marital choice as an adult. Featuring an array of visual evidence, and drawing on topics such as widowhood, remarriage, and the guardianship of children, Stepfamilies in Europe will be essential reading for scholars and students of the history of the family.

Author : Raisa Maria Toivo
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0754664546

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Witchcraft and Gender in Early Modern Society by Raisa Maria Toivo Pdf

With a sharp eye for detail, Raisa Maria Toivo explores the gender implications of the complex system of household management and public representation in which seventeenth-century Finnish women and men negotiated their positions. From specific case studies of Finnish peasant women, Toivo broadens her narrative to include historiographical discussion on the history of witchcraft, on women's and gender history and on early modern social history, shedding new light on each theme.

Author : James Daybell,Svante Norrhem
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134883912

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Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800 by James Daybell,Svante Norrhem Pdf

Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe investigates the gendered nature of political culture across early modern Europe by exploring the relationship between gender, power, and political authority and influence. This collection offers a rethinking of what constituted ‘politics’ and a reconsideration of how men and women operated as part of political culture. It demonstrates how underlying structures could enable or constrain political action, and how political power and influence could be exercised through social and cultural practices. The book is divided into four parts - diplomacy, gifts and the politics of exchange; socio-economic structures; gendered politics at court; and voting and political representations – each of which looks at a series of interrelated themes exploring the ways in which political culture is inflected by questions of gender. In addition to examples drawn from across Europe, including Austria, the Dutch Republic, the Italian States and Scandinavia, the volume also takes a transnational comparative approach, crossing national borders, while the concluding chapter, by Merry Wiesner-Hanks, offers a global perspective on the field and encourages comparative analysis both chronologically and geographically. As the first collection to draw together early modern gender and political culture, this book is the perfect starting point for students exploring this fascinating topic.