About the Book
This volume explores familial wealth arrangements and gendered property from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries in Italian, German and Austrian territories (including Florence, Trento, Tyrol, and Vienna), Nordic countries, Western Pyrenees, and England. Family property as capital in the form of houses, land, movables, financial assets, and rights were of great importance in the past. Arrangements of such property were characterised by a high degree of negotiating competence but likewise they entailed competition between the parties involved and were highly conflict prone. Fifteen contributors from Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, and the UK address different marital property regimes in relation to the practices and legal regulations of inheritance patterns with consideration to inter-familial negotiation, conflict, and resolution.
Contributors are: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga, Laura Casella, Isabelle Chabot, Siglinde Clementi, Simona Feci, Ellinor Forster, Andrea Griesebner, Christian Hagen, Margareth Lanzinger, Janine Maegraith, Silvia Mattivi, Beatrice Moring, Craig Muldrew, Regina Schäfer, and Georg Tschannett.
About the Author: Margareth Lanzinger, Ph.D. (1999), is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna. She has published monographs, edited volumes, and many articles on kinship and property, including The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere (16th to 19th Century) (2020), co-edited with Joachim Eibach.
Janine Maegraith, Ph.D. (2005), is Research Associate at the University of Vienna. She has published widely on topics in social history of early modern central Europe, including "Landlessness". Reviewing the Early Modern Property Structure in Southern Tyrol, in Zeitschrift für Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie 68, 1 (2020).
Siglinde Clementi, Ph.D. (2016), is Vice Director of the Competence Centre for Regional History at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. She has published widely on early modern Tyrol, gender and women's history. Körper, Selbst und Melancholie. Die Selbstzeugnisse des Landadeligen Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634-1710) (2017).
Ellinor Forster, Ph.D. (2008), is Assistant Professor at the Institute for History and European Ethnology at the University of Innsbruck. She has published widely on spatial concepts, political and symbolic communication, legal and gender history, including Demarkationslinie Eherecht. Geschlechtsspezifische Nachwirkungen der Rechtspluralität von Tiroler Landesordnung versus Trienter Statut und österreichischem versus französischem Recht (1815-1856), in Vormärz. Eine geteilte Geschichte Trentino-Tirols / Vormärz. Una Storia Condivisa Trento-Tirolese (2017).
Christian Hagen, Ph.D. (2013), is Research Associate at the University of Kiel. He published on Medieval economic, social, urban, regional, and cultural history, including Fürstliche Herrschaft und kommunale Teilhabe. Die Städte der Grafschaft Tirol im Spätmittelalter (2015).
