Donations, Inheritance and Property in the Nordic and Western World from Late Antiquity Until Today (Hardcover)

Contents

Introduction

Ole-Albert Rønning, Helle Møller Sigh, Helle Vogt

1. Gift-Giving and Inheritance in Late Roman Law and Legal Practice Caroline Humfress
2. The Jurisprudence of the Forced Share in the Ancient World: Cicero to Justinian Charles J. Reid, Jr.
3. The Jurisprudence of the Forced Share: The High and Late Middle Ages Charles J. Reid, Jr.
4. Inheritance in the Lands of the Loire, 1050-1200: A Contrast to Nordic and Roman Practice Amy Livingstone
5. Protecting the Individual, the Kin and the Soul: Donation Regulations in Danish and Norwegian Medieval Legislation Helle Vogt
6. By Love and by Law: Choices of Female Donors in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Sweden Anu Lahtinen
7. Gender and Donation Culture in Icelandic from c. 1300-1600 Agnes S. Arnorsdottir
8. Luther’s Last Will and the Invention of Testamentary Freedom Mathias Schmoeckel
9. Pious Donations: The Act of Giving in the Lutheran Church and its Spatial Implications Martin Wangsgaard Jurgensen
10. The Business of Charity and the Charity of Business: Donations in the Norwegian merchant town of Bergen in the seventeenth and eighteenth century Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde
11. "Immortal mother and benefactor": Honorable Dwellings for Unmarried Gentlewomen and the Dynamics of Donations among the Danish Elite from 1699 to 1745 Helle Møller Sigh
12. The Age of Miracles? Alms Culture and Charitable Donations in Copenhagen, c. 1770-1830 Peter Wessel Hansen
13. How to Exchange with the Dead: The significance of heirlooms in contemporary Danish inheritance practices Bodil Selmer
14. Gifts to, from, and between Spouses: Present Regulation in the Nordic Countries John Asland