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Autore |
Howell Martha C |
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Titolo |
The marriage exchange : property, social place, and gender in cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1550 / / Martha C. Howell |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c1998 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-06994-2 |
9786612069949 |
0-226-35517-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Collana |
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Women in culture and society |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Husband and wife - Flanders - History |
Husband and wife - France - Douai - History |
Law, Medieval |
Marital property - Flanders - History |
Marital property - France - Douai - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Money, Dates, and Names -- Introduction. Le Libert v. Rohard -- Chapter 1. From Custom to Contract -- Chapter 2. The Social Context of Custom -- Chapter 3. Legal Reform as Social Engineering -- Chapter 4. The Social Logic-and Illogic--of Custom -- Chapter 5. An Alternative Logic -- Chapter 6. Living with the New -- Chapter 7. The Weight of Experience -- Chapter 8. The Douaisien Reform in Historical Context -- Conclusion. Marie, Franchoise, and Their Sisters -- Appendix A. The Evolution of Douai's Douaire Coutumier -- Appendix B. Written Custom and Old Custom in Douai -- Glossary of Legal Terminology -- Glossary of Measures -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Medieval Douai was one of the wealthiest cloth towns of Flanders, and it left an enormous archive documenting the personal financial affairs of its citizens-wills, marriage agreements, business contracts, and records of court disputes over property rights of all kinds. Based on extensive research in this archive, this book reveals how these documents were produced in a centuries-long effort to regulate-and |
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ultimately to redefine-property and gender relations. At the center of the transformation was a shift from a marital property regime based on custom to one based on contract. In the former, a widow typically inherited her husband's property; in the latter, she shared it with or simply held it for his family or offspring. Howell asks why the law changed as it did and assesses the law's effects on both social and gender meanings but she insists that the reform did not originate in general dissatisfaction with custom or a desire to disempower widows. Instead, it was born in a complex economic, social and cultural history during which Douaisiens gradually came to think about both property and gender in new ways. |
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