Planning for Death ：Wills and Death-Related Property Arrangements in Europe, 1200-1600 ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Wills and Death-Related Property Arrangements in Europe, 1200-1600

Publication series ：1

Author： Korpiola   Mia;Lahtinen   Anu  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2018

E-ISBN: 9789004365704

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004364325

Subject： K History and Geography

Keyword： 历史、地理

Language： ENG

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Description

Planning for Death: Wills and Death-Related Property Arrangements in Europe, 1200-1600 analyses death-related property transfers in several late medieval and European regions (England, Poland, Italy, South Tirol, and Sweden). The book focuses especially on testamentary practice and matrimonial property rights.

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Contents

List of Illustrations and Figures

List of Contributors

Chapter 1 Introduction

Part 1 Range of Legal Options and Their Use

Chapter 2 Inheritance Law, Wills, and Strategies of Heirship in Medieval Sweden

Chapter 3 Monastic Donations by Widows: Morning Gifts as Assets in Planning for Old Age and Death in Fifteenth-Century Sweden

Chapter 4 Competing Interests in Death-Related Stipulations in South Tirol c. 1350–1600

Part 2 Wills, Property Strategies, and Testamentary Practice

Chapter 5 Medieval English Lawyers’ Wills and Property Strategies

Chapter 6 Men and Women Preparing for Death in Renaissance Venice (c. 1200–1600)

Chapter 7 Mutual Testaments in Late Medieval Stockholm, c. 1420–1520

Part 3 Wills, Property, and Authority

Chapter 8 Wills as Tools of Power: Development of Testamentary Practice in Krakow during the Late Middle Ages

Chapter 9 Deathbed Strife and the Law of Wills in Medieval and Early Modern England

Chapter 10 The Will of Filippa Fleming (1578), Family Relations, and Swedish Inheritance Law

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