Donations, Strategies and Relations in the Latin West and Nordic Countries presents, for the first time, a longue durée perspective on the dynamics of donations and the interplay between individual motivations, strategic behaviour and the legal setting of inheritance law. This collection places donations to ecclesiastical, chari
Donations, Strategies and Relations in the Latin West and Nordic Countries presents, for the first time, a longue durée perspective on the dynamics of donations and the interplay between individual motivations, strategic behaviour and the legal setting of inheritance law. This collection places donations to ecclesiastical, chari
Ole-Albert Rønning is a historian and PhD candidate at the University of Oslo, Norway, studying oaths of compurgation in medieval Norwegian law and society, in a comparative perspective. Helle Møller Sigh is a curator at the Strandingsmuseum St. George, Thorsminde, Demark. Helle Vogt is an associate professor at the Centre for Studies in Legal Culture at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her previous publications include The Danish Medieval Laws: The laws of Scania, Zealand and Jutland (2016).
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Contents List of figures List of tables List of Contributors Introduction Ole-Albert Rønning, Helle Møller Sigh, Helle Vogt 1. Gift-Giving and Inheritance in Late Roman Law and Legal Practice Caroline Humfress 2. The Jurisprudence of the Forced Share in the Ancient World: Cicero to Justinian Charles J. Reid, Jr. 3. The Jurisprudence of the Forced Share: The High and Late Middle Ages Charles J. Reid, Jr. 4. Inheritance in the Lands of the Loire, 1050-1200: A Contrast to Nordic and Roman Practice Amy Livingstone 5. Protecting the Individual, the Kin and the Soul: Donation Regulations in Danish and Norwegian Medieval Legislation Helle Vogt 6. By Love and by Law: Choices of Female Donors in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Sweden Anu Lahtinen 7. Gender and Donation Culture in Icelandic from c. 1300-1600 Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir 8. Luther's Last Will and the Invention of Testamentary Freedom Mathias Schmoeckel 9. Pious Donations: The Act of Giving in the Lutheran Church and its Spatial Implications Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen 10. The Business of Charity and the Charity of Business: Donations in the Norwegian merchant town of Bergen in the seventeenth and eighteenth century Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde 11. "Immortal mother and benefactor": Honorable Dwellings for Unmarried Gentlewomen and the Dynamics of Donations among the Danish Elite from 1699 to 1745 Helle Møller Sigh 12. The Age of Miracles? Alms Culture and Charitable Donations in Copenhagen, c. 1770-1830 Peter Wessel Hansen 13. How to Exchange with the Dead: Th
Contents List of figures List of tables List of Contributors Introduction Ole-Albert Rønning, Helle Møller Sigh, Helle Vogt 1. Gift-Giving and Inheritance in Late Roman Law and Legal Practice Caroline Humfress 2. The Jurisprudence of the Forced Share in the Ancient World: Cicero to Justinian Charles J. Reid, Jr. 3. The Jurisprudence of the Forced Share: The High and Late Middle Ages Charles J. Reid, Jr. 4. Inheritance in the Lands of the Loire, 1050-1200: A Contrast to Nordic and Roman Practice Amy Livingstone 5. Protecting the Individual, the Kin and the Soul: Donation Regulations in Danish and Norwegian Medieval Legislation Helle Vogt 6. By Love and by Law: Choices of Female Donors in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Sweden Anu Lahtinen 7. Gender and Donation Culture in Icelandic from c. 1300-1600 Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir 8. Luther's Last Will and the Invention of Testamentary Freedom Mathias Schmoeckel 9. Pious Donations: The Act of Giving in the Lutheran Church and its Spatial Implications Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen 10. The Business of Charity and the Charity of Business: Donations in the Norwegian merchant town of Bergen in the seventeenth and eighteenth century Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde 11. "Immortal mother and benefactor": Honorable Dwellings for Unmarried Gentlewomen and the Dynamics of Donations among the Danish Elite from 1699 to 1745 Helle Møller Sigh 12. The Age of Miracles? Alms Culture and Charitable Donations in Copenhagen, c. 1770-1830 Peter Wessel Hansen 13. How to Exchange with the Dead: Th
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