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Planning for Death: Wills and Death-Related Property Arrangements in Europe, 1200-1600

Planning for Death: Wills and Death-Related Property Arrangements in Europe, 1200-1600

Author: Mia Korpiola; Anu Lahtinen
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
ISBN: 9789004364325
Published In: May 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Netherlands ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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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 Masè, Anthony Musson, Tuula Rantala, Elsa Trolle Önnerfors, and Jakub Wysmułek.

List of Illustrations and Figures List of Contributors 1 Introduction

Mia Korpiola and Anu Lahtinen

Part 1: Range of Legal Options and Their Use

Inheritance Law, Wills, and Strategies of Heirship in Medieval Sweden

Mia Korpiola and Elsa Trolle Önnerfors

Monastic Donations by Widows: Morning Gifts as Assets in Planning for Old Age and Death in Fifteenth-Century Sweden

Tuula Rantala

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

Medieval English Lawyers’ Wills and Property Strategies