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Gender, law and economic well-being in Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century : North versus South?
Title
Gender, law and economic well-being in Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century : North versus South? / edited by Anna Bellavitis and Beatrice Zucca Micheletto.
ISBN
9781138571518
1138571512
9780203702727
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2019.
Physical Description
xv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Summary
"This book offers a comparative perspective on Northern and Southern European laws and customs concerning women’s property and economic rights. By focusing on both Northern and Southern European societies, these studies analyse the consequences of different juridical frameworks and norms on the development of the economic roles of men and women.This volume is divided into three parts. The first, Laws, presents general outlines related to some European regions; the second, Family strategies or marital economies?, questions the potential conflict between the economic interests of the married couple and those of the lineage within the nobility; finally, the third part of the book, Inside the urban economy, focuses on economic and work activities of middle and lower classes in the urban environment. The assorted and rich panorama offered by the history of the legislation on women’s economic rights shows that similarities and differences run through Europe in such a way that the North/South model looks very stereotyped. While this approach calls into question classical geographical and cultural maps and well-established chronologies, it encourages a reconsideration of European history according to a cross-boundaries perspective.By drawing on a wide range of social, economic and cultural European contexts, from the late medieval to early modern age to the nineteenth century, and including the middle and lower classes (especially artisans, merchants and traders) as well as the economic practices and norms of the upper middle class and aristocracy, this book will be of interest to economic and social historians, sociologists of health, gender and sexuality, and economists."-- Front matter.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 25, 2018
Series
Gender and well-being.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: North vs South : gender, law and economic well-being in europe (15th-19th centuries) / Anna Bellavitis, Beatrice Zucca Micheletto
Laws
Community of goods, coverture and capability in Britain : Scotland v. England / Deborah Simonton
Between parental power and marital authority : how merchant women stood the test of the customary laws in Brittany (16th- 17th centuries) / Nicole Dufournaud
Exceptional women : female merchants and working women in Italy in the early modern period / Simona Feci
Married women's property rights in the nineteenth century in France and Spain : a North-South case study / Marion Röwekamp
From legal diversity to centralization : marriage and wealth in nineteenth-century Greece / Doxiadis Evdoxios
Family strategies or marital economy?
Marriage, law and property : married noblewomen's role in property management in fifteenth-century norway / Susann Anett Pedersen
Class privileges and the public good : the Monti dei Maritaggi in early modern Naples / Vittoria Fiorelli
Women of high and medium-ranking officers in the ile-de-France between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : what economic agency? / Claire Chatelain
Undivided brothers : renouncing sisters : family strategies of low nobility in sixteenth and seventeenth century Tirol / Siglinde Clementi
Inside the urban economy
The "egalitarian trend" in practice : female participation in capital markets in late medieval Leuven / Andrea Bardyn
Women and credit in eighteenth century Venice : a preliminary analysis / Matteo Pompermaier
Married women, property and paraphernalia in early modern Scotland / Rebecca Mason
Women at work in a southern European town : women, guilds and commercial partnerships in Venice in the sixteenth century / Emilie Fiorucci
Law, wives and the marital economy in sixteenth-century Antwerp : bridging the gap between theory and practice / Kaat Cappelle
Women, law, and business formation in early modern Paris / Janine M. Lanza
Bankruptcies, a gateway to gender history : the example of women book traders in Paris in the nineteenth century / Viera Rebolledo-Dhuin
Index.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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