Gender, Law and Material Culture

Immobile Property and Mobile Goods in Early Modern Europe
Herausgeber: Cremer, Annette Caroline

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9780367371791
• ISBN-10: 0367371790
• Artikelnr.: 60000364

Autorenporträt

Annette Caroline Cremer is an assistant professor in the history faculty at Giessen University, Germany. She has published several books in the fields of material culture research, European cultural history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, court culture, and gender history.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction: men, women, property, law, and custom 1. Gender, law,
and material culture 2. Early modern political philosophy on rights of
ownership Part 2: Gifts, symbolic values, and strategies 3. Landed property
as marital gifts: women and landownership in fifteenth-century Norway 4.
Married women's testaments: division and distribution of movable property
in seventeenth-century Glasgow 5. Hybrid legal cultures among the early
modern Tyrolean nobility: marriage contracts and the symbolic Value of
Assets Part 3: Women's access to immobile property 6. Fenced in or out?
Women and landownserhip in early modern southern Tyrol 7. Women, land and
usufruct in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire: a case study of Vidin
and Antakya Part 4: Women, law, and property in colonial contexts 8. In her
own right: gender, slaveholding, and movable goods in colonial Jamaica 9.
Land, slaves, and honour: women's ownership and possession in colonial
Brazil (Paraíba) Part 5: Women and property in transitory zones 10. Women
and movable goods in a maritime border economy in nineteenth-century Sicily
(Aeolian Islands) 11. Stamp duty and the transformation of the dowry in
nineteenth-century Greece 12. Starting a married life: women and goods in
the mid-nineteenth-century Romanian Towns of Pite¿i and Câmpulung Part 6:
Synthesis 13. Movable goods and immovable property: interrelated
perspectives