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Gender, Law and Economic Well-Being in Europe from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century : North Versus South?

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2018Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (299 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781351334228
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 342.20878
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Contents:
Gender, Law and Economic Well-Being in Europe from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century- Front Cover -- Gender, Law and Economic Well-Being in Europe from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of editors and contributors -- Editors -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: North versus South - gender, law and economic well-being in Europe in the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART I: Laws -- Chapter 1: Community of goods, coverture and capability in Britain: Scotland versus England -- Preamble -- English coverture -- Scottish law -- Communion of goods -- Conducting business in urban Scotland -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Between parental power and marital authority: How merchant women stood the test of customary laws in Brittany in the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries -- The Custom of Brittany -- At the origins of the Custom of Brittany -- The Assize of Count Geffroi of 1185 -- From the Assize of Count Geffroi to the Ancient Custom of 1539 -- The customs of Brittany in the merchant world -- Parental power -- Marital power -- Marital authorisation -- Powers of attorney: a new instrument of autonomy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Exceptional women: Female merchants and working women in Italy in the early modern period -- Regulating the work of women -- Property and capacity to act -- Salaries -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Married women's property rights in the nineteenth century in France and Spain: A North-South case study -- Married women's property rights in France -- Married women's property rights in Spain -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
Chapter 5: From legal diversity to centralization: Marriage and wealth in nineteenth-century Greece -- Greek women in the Ottoman Empire -- Women in the modern Greek state -- Women and modern law -- Archival abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART II: Family strategies or marital economies? -- Chapter 6: Marriage, law and property: Married noblewomen's role in property management in fifteenth-century Norway -- Introduction -- Family background and the economic foundation of Magnhild and Alv's marital estate -- Expanding their estates through purchase -- Managing their estates -- Economic partnership and female landowners: concluding remarks -- Notes -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Class privileges and the public good: The monti dei maritaggi in early modern Naples -- Introduction -- Beneath oligarchic closures and class responsibility -- A bridge between equality and distinction -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: Women of high- and medium-ranking officers in the Île-de- France between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: What economic agency? -- Structural changes in the domestic economy of the urban elites during the second half of the seventeenth century: towards an increased gentrification of social roles -- The dispute over the rights of the wife -- The chains of female agency -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9: Undivided brothers - renouncing sisters: Family strategies of low nobility in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Tyrol -- Undivided brothers -- Renouncing sisters -- Family strategies and conflicts -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART III: Inside the urban economy -- Chapter 10: The 'egalitarian trend' in practice: Female participation in capital markets in late medieval Leuven -- Between norms and practice: women's legal rights in Leuven -- The capital market of Leuven and its sources.
The profile of female borrowers and creditors -- Gender differences in market participation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11: Women and credit in eighteenth-century Venice: A preliminary analysis -- Introduction -- Consumer credit in eighteenth-century Venice: the arrival of the Jews and the absence of a Monte di Pietà -- Wine and cash: the credit activity of Venetian bastioni and inns -- Women, credit, objects: female activities in the city's credit market -- Concluding notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12: Married women, property and paraphernalia in early modern Scotland -- What is paraphernalia? -- Current state of research -- Sources and methodology -- Paraphernalia and debt litigation -- Pawning and bequeathing paraphernalia -- Marital breakdown: his goods - or hers? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 13: Women at work in a Southern European town: Women, guilds and commercial partnerships in Venice in the sixteenth century -- Introduction -- Overview of the regulations on women in the guild system -- Women shopkeepers -- Business partnerships: a female resource and right -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 14: Law, wives and the marital economy in sixteenth-century Antwerp: Bridging the gap between theory and practice -- Introduction -- State of the research -- Marital property and inheritance law -- Wills -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 15: Women, law and business formation in early modern Paris -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 16: Bankruptcies, a gateway to gender history: The example of women book traders in Paris in the nineteenth century -- Introduction -- The establishment: marriage and the opening of a shop -- Marriage: a guarantor of the morality of prospective booksellers -- Marriage: a financial guarantee for book traders.
Daily dynamics of funds: mothers helping their children -- Relatives by marriage and working capital -- Bankruptcy: women, furniture and honour -- Booksellers' wives save their furniture . . . -- . . . and their honour -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This book looks at how social, cultural, geographical and economic environment as well as different legal and juridical systems have shaped and influenced the access of women and men to the economy and to the market and how these systems allowed spaces for economic actions, according to a gendered perspective.
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Gender, Law and Economic Well-Being in Europe from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century- Front Cover -- Gender, Law and Economic Well-Being in Europe from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of editors and contributors -- Editors -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: North versus South - gender, law and economic well-being in Europe in the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART I: Laws -- Chapter 1: Community of goods, coverture and capability in Britain: Scotland versus England -- Preamble -- English coverture -- Scottish law -- Communion of goods -- Conducting business in urban Scotland -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Between parental power and marital authority: How merchant women stood the test of customary laws in Brittany in the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries -- The Custom of Brittany -- At the origins of the Custom of Brittany -- The Assize of Count Geffroi of 1185 -- From the Assize of Count Geffroi to the Ancient Custom of 1539 -- The customs of Brittany in the merchant world -- Parental power -- Marital power -- Marital authorisation -- Powers of attorney: a new instrument of autonomy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Exceptional women: Female merchants and working women in Italy in the early modern period -- Regulating the work of women -- Property and capacity to act -- Salaries -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Married women's property rights in the nineteenth century in France and Spain: A North-South case study -- Married women's property rights in France -- Married women's property rights in Spain -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.

Chapter 5: From legal diversity to centralization: Marriage and wealth in nineteenth-century Greece -- Greek women in the Ottoman Empire -- Women in the modern Greek state -- Women and modern law -- Archival abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART II: Family strategies or marital economies? -- Chapter 6: Marriage, law and property: Married noblewomen's role in property management in fifteenth-century Norway -- Introduction -- Family background and the economic foundation of Magnhild and Alv's marital estate -- Expanding their estates through purchase -- Managing their estates -- Economic partnership and female landowners: concluding remarks -- Notes -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Class privileges and the public good: The monti dei maritaggi in early modern Naples -- Introduction -- Beneath oligarchic closures and class responsibility -- A bridge between equality and distinction -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: Women of high- and medium-ranking officers in the Île-de- France between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: What economic agency? -- Structural changes in the domestic economy of the urban elites during the second half of the seventeenth century: towards an increased gentrification of social roles -- The dispute over the rights of the wife -- The chains of female agency -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9: Undivided brothers - renouncing sisters: Family strategies of low nobility in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Tyrol -- Undivided brothers -- Renouncing sisters -- Family strategies and conflicts -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART III: Inside the urban economy -- Chapter 10: The 'egalitarian trend' in practice: Female participation in capital markets in late medieval Leuven -- Between norms and practice: women's legal rights in Leuven -- The capital market of Leuven and its sources.

The profile of female borrowers and creditors -- Gender differences in market participation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11: Women and credit in eighteenth-century Venice: A preliminary analysis -- Introduction -- Consumer credit in eighteenth-century Venice: the arrival of the Jews and the absence of a Monte di Pietà -- Wine and cash: the credit activity of Venetian bastioni and inns -- Women, credit, objects: female activities in the city's credit market -- Concluding notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12: Married women, property and paraphernalia in early modern Scotland -- What is paraphernalia? -- Current state of research -- Sources and methodology -- Paraphernalia and debt litigation -- Pawning and bequeathing paraphernalia -- Marital breakdown: his goods - or hers? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 13: Women at work in a Southern European town: Women, guilds and commercial partnerships in Venice in the sixteenth century -- Introduction -- Overview of the regulations on women in the guild system -- Women shopkeepers -- Business partnerships: a female resource and right -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 14: Law, wives and the marital economy in sixteenth-century Antwerp: Bridging the gap between theory and practice -- Introduction -- State of the research -- Marital property and inheritance law -- Wills -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 15: Women, law and business formation in early modern Paris -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 16: Bankruptcies, a gateway to gender history: The example of women book traders in Paris in the nineteenth century -- Introduction -- The establishment: marriage and the opening of a shop -- Marriage: a guarantor of the morality of prospective booksellers -- Marriage: a financial guarantee for book traders.

Daily dynamics of funds: mothers helping their children -- Relatives by marriage and working capital -- Bankruptcy: women, furniture and honour -- Booksellers' wives save their furniture . . . -- . . . and their honour -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book looks at how social, cultural, geographical and economic environment as well as different legal and juridical systems have shaped and influenced the access of women and men to the economy and to the market and how these systems allowed spaces for economic actions, according to a gendered perspective.

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