LEADER 04210nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910816348503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-06994-2 010 $a9786612069949 010 $a0-226-35517-9 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226355177 035 $a(CKB)1000000000724802 035 $a(EBL)432242 035 $a(OCoLC)320958460 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000198269 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11169118 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000198269 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10170640 035 $a(PQKB)10894272 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC432242 035 $a(DE-B1597)535790 035 $a(OCoLC)1055420881 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226355177 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL432242 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10286156 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL206994 035 $a(dli)HEB04161 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000009771930 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000724802 100 $a19970822d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe marriage exchange $eproperty, social place, and gender in cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1550 /$fMartha C. Howell 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc1998 215 $a1 online resource (296 p.) 225 1 $aWomen in culture and society 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-35516-0 311 $a0-226-35515-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tForeword -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNote on Money, Dates, and Names -- $tIntroduction. Le Libert v. Rohard -- $tChapter 1. From Custom to Contract -- $tChapter 2. The Social Context of Custom -- $tChapter 3. Legal Reform as Social Engineering -- $tChapter 4. The Social Logic-and Illogic--of Custom -- $tChapter 5. An Alternative Logic -- $tChapter 6. Living with the New -- $tChapter 7. The Weight of Experience -- $tChapter 8. The Douaisien Reform in Historical Context -- $tConclusion. Marie, Franchoise, and Their Sisters -- $tAppendix A. The Evolution of Douai's Douaire Coutumier -- $tAppendix B. Written Custom and Old Custom in Douai -- $tGlossary of Legal Terminology -- $tGlossary of Measures -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aMedieval Douai was one of the wealthiest cloth towns of Flanders, and it left an enormous archive documenting the personal financial affairs of its citizens-wills, marriage agreements, business contracts, and records of court disputes over property rights of all kinds. Based on extensive research in this archive, this book reveals how these documents were produced in a centuries-long effort to regulate-and ultimately to redefine-property and gender relations. At the center of the transformation was a shift from a marital property regime based on custom to one based on contract. In the former, a widow typically inherited her husband's property; in the latter, she shared it with or simply held it for his family or offspring. Howell asks why the law changed as it did and assesses the law's effects on both social and gender meanings but she insists that the reform did not originate in general dissatisfaction with custom or a desire to disempower widows. Instead, it was born in a complex economic, social and cultural history during which Douaisiens gradually came to think about both property and gender in new ways. 410 0$aWomen in culture and society. 606 $aHusband and wife$zFlanders$xHistory 606 $aHusband and wife$zFrance$zDouai$xHistory 606 $aLaw, Medieval 606 $aMarital property$zFlanders$xHistory 606 $aMarital property$zFrance$zDouai$xHistory 615 0$aHusband and wife$xHistory. 615 0$aHusband and wife$xHistory. 615 0$aLaw, Medieval. 615 0$aMarital property$xHistory. 615 0$aMarital property$xHistory. 676 $a346.44/280166 700 $aHowell$b Martha C$0292125 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816348503321 996 $aThe marriage exchange$92262185 997 $aUNINA