Planning for Death
Wills and Death-Related Property Arrangements in Europe, 1200-1600
Published on 9. May 2018
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-90-04-36432-5 (ISBN)
Description
The volume Planning for Death: Wills and Death-Related Property Arrangements in Europe, 1200-1600 analyses death-related property transfers in several European regions (England, Poland, Italy, South Tirol, and Sweden).
Laws and customary practice provided a legal framework for all post-mortem property devolution. However, personal preference and varied succession strategies meant that individuals could plan for death by various legal means. These individual legal acts could include matrimonial property arrangements (marriage contracts, morning gifts) and legal means of altering heirship by subtracting or adding heirs. Wills and testamentary practice are given special attention, while the volume also discusses the timing of the legal acts, suggesting that while some people made careful and timely arrangements, others only reacted to sudden events.
Contributors are Christian Hagen, R.H. Helmholz, Mia Korpiola, Anu Lahtinen, Marko Lamberg, Margareth Lanzinger, Janine Maegraith, Federica Mase, Anthony Musson, Tuula Rantala, Elsa Trolle OEnnerfors, and Jakub Wysmulek.
Laws and customary practice provided a legal framework for all post-mortem property devolution. However, personal preference and varied succession strategies meant that individuals could plan for death by various legal means. These individual legal acts could include matrimonial property arrangements (marriage contracts, morning gifts) and legal means of altering heirship by subtracting or adding heirs. Wills and testamentary practice are given special attention, while the volume also discusses the timing of the legal acts, suggesting that while some people made careful and timely arrangements, others only reacted to sudden events.
Contributors are Christian Hagen, R.H. Helmholz, Mia Korpiola, Anu Lahtinen, Marko Lamberg, Margareth Lanzinger, Janine Maegraith, Federica Mase, Anthony Musson, Tuula Rantala, Elsa Trolle OEnnerfors, and Jakub Wysmulek.
Reviews / Votes
"This volume recommends itself with its careful consideration of the ways law and practice interacted, as well as its attention to how gender influenced how law could be deployed to carry out final wishes. It is also valuable in bringing the legal system and practice of early modern Scandinavia to the fore of legal studies, which have often focused more on studies of England and France, broadening our understanding of early modern legal histories". Janine Lanza, in Renaissance Quarterly, Renaissance Quarterly, 73 (1), pp. 269-270.More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
559 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-36432-5 (9789004364325)
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Persons
Mia Korpiola, LL.D. (2004), University of Helsinki, is Professor of Legal History at the University of Turku. She had authored and edited several books, including Regional Variations in Matrimonial Law and Custom in Europe, 1150-1600 (Brill, 2011).
Anu Lahtinen, Ph.D. (2007), University of Turku, is Professor of Finnish and Nordic History at the University of Helsinki. She has published on medieval and early modern history, including Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe (Brill, 2017).
Anu Lahtinen, Ph.D. (2007), University of Turku, is Professor of Finnish and Nordic History at the University of Helsinki. She has published on medieval and early modern history, including Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe (Brill, 2017).
Content
List of Illustrations and Figures
List of Contributors
1 Introduction
?Mia Korpiola and Anu Lahtinen
Part 1: Range of Legal Options and Their Use
2 Inheritance Law, Wills, and Strategies of Heirship in Medieval Sweden
?Mia Korpiola and Elsa Trolle OEnnerfors
3 Monastic Donations by Widows: Morning Gifts as Assets in Planning for Old Age and Death in Fifteenth-Century Sweden
?Tuula Rantala
4 Competing Interests in Death-Related Stipulations in South Tirol, c. 1350-1600
?Christian Hagen, Margareth Lanzinger, and Janine Maegraith
Part 2: Wills, Property Strategies, and Testamentary Practice
5 Medieval English Lawyers' Wills and Property Strategies
?Anthony Musson
6 Men and Women Preparing for Death in Renaissance Venice (c. 1200-1600)
?Federica Mase
7 Mutual Testaments in Late Medieval Stockholm, c. 1420-1520
?Marko Lamberg
Part 3: Wills, Property, and Authority
8 Wills as Tools of Power: Development of Testamentary Practice in Krakow during the Late Middle Ages
?Jakub Wysmulek
9 Deathbed Strife and the Law of Wills in Medieval and Early Modern England
?R.H. Helmholz
10 The Will of Filippa Fleming (1578), Family Relations, and Swedish Inheritance Law
?Anu Lahtinen
Index of Persons
General Index
List of Contributors
1 Introduction
?Mia Korpiola and Anu Lahtinen
Part 1: Range of Legal Options and Their Use
2 Inheritance Law, Wills, and Strategies of Heirship in Medieval Sweden
?Mia Korpiola and Elsa Trolle OEnnerfors
3 Monastic Donations by Widows: Morning Gifts as Assets in Planning for Old Age and Death in Fifteenth-Century Sweden
?Tuula Rantala
4 Competing Interests in Death-Related Stipulations in South Tirol, c. 1350-1600
?Christian Hagen, Margareth Lanzinger, and Janine Maegraith
Part 2: Wills, Property Strategies, and Testamentary Practice
5 Medieval English Lawyers' Wills and Property Strategies
?Anthony Musson
6 Men and Women Preparing for Death in Renaissance Venice (c. 1200-1600)
?Federica Mase
7 Mutual Testaments in Late Medieval Stockholm, c. 1420-1520
?Marko Lamberg
Part 3: Wills, Property, and Authority
8 Wills as Tools of Power: Development of Testamentary Practice in Krakow during the Late Middle Ages
?Jakub Wysmulek
9 Deathbed Strife and the Law of Wills in Medieval and Early Modern England
?R.H. Helmholz
10 The Will of Filippa Fleming (1578), Family Relations, and Swedish Inheritance Law
?Anu Lahtinen
Index of Persons
General Index