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Donations, Inheritances and Property in the Nordic and Western World from Late Antiquity to Today

Donations, Inheritances and Property in the Nordic and Western World from Late Antiquity to Today

Author: Ole-Albert Ronning
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138195837
Published In: June 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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Donations, Inheritance and Property in the Nordic and Western World from Late Antiquity until Today presents an examination of Nordic donation and gift-giving practices in the Nordic and Western world, beginning in late Antiquity and extending through to the present day.

Through chapters contributed by leading international researchers, this book explores the changing legal, social and religious frameworks that shape how donations and gifts are given. In addition to donations to ecclesiastical, charitable and cultural institutions, this books also highlights the sociolegal challenges and the tensions that can occur as a result of transferring property, including answering key questions such as who has a right to what. It also presents, for the first time, an insight into the dynamics of donations and the interplay between individual motivations, strategic behaviour and the legal setting of inheritance law.

Offering a broad chronological and European perspective and including a wide range of illuminating case studies Donations, Inheritance and Property in the Nordic and Western World from Late Antiquity until Today is ideal for students of Nordic and European legal and social history.

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List of Contributors

Introduction Ole-Albert Ronning, Helle Moller Sigh, Helle Vogt

Gift-Giving and Inheritance in Late Roman Law and Legal Practice Caroline Humfress

The Jurisprudence of the Forced Share in the Ancient World: Cicero to Justinian Charles J. Reid, Jr.

The Jurisprudence of the Forced Share: The High and Late Middle Ages Charles J. Reid, Jr.

Inheritance in the Lands of the Loire, 1050-1200: A Contrast to Nordic and Roman Practice Amy Livingstone Protecting the Individual, the Kin and the Soul: Donation Regulations in Danish and Norwegian Medieval Legislation Helle Vogt

By Love and by Law: Choices of Female Donors in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Sweden Anu Lahtinen Gender and Donation Culture in Icelandic from c.

1300-1600 Agnes S. Arnorsdottir

Luther's Last Will and the Invention of Testamentary Freedom Mathias Schmoeckel

Pious Donations: The Act of Giving in the Lutheran Church and its Spatial Implications Martin Wangsgaard Jurgensen

The Business of Charity and the Charity of Business: Donations in the Norwegian merchant town of Bergen in the seventeenth and eighteenth century Jorn Oyrehagen Sunde

"Immortal mother and benefactor": Honorable Dwellings for Unmarried Gentlewomen and the Dynamics of Donations among the Danish Elite from 1699 to 1745 Helle Moller Sigh

The Age of Miracles? Alms Culture and Charitable Donations in Copenhagen, c.

1770-1830 Peter Wessel Hansen

How to Exchange with the Dead: The significance of heirlooms in contemporary Danish inheritance practices Bodil Selmer

Gifts to, from, and between Spouses: Present Regulation in the Nordic Countries John Asland

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