Margareth Lanzinger currently teaches Early Modern History at the Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany. Her research interests centre on micro-history, historical anthropology, gender history and cultural history, especially as they relate to the topics of kinship, marriage, property arrangements, legal practices and administrative practices. She is a member of the editorial board of L'Homme. Z.F.G., Historische Anthropologie and Quaderni Storici.

• 1. Introduction Margareth Lanzinger 2. On the Roman father’s right to kill his adulterous daughter Nikolaus Benke 3. Fatherhood and the non-propertied classes in Renaissance and early modern Italian towns Sandra Cavallo 4. Paternal power: the pleasures and perils of ‘indulgent’ fathering in Britain in the long eighteenth century Joanne Bailey 5. Paternal authority and patrilineal power: stem family arrangements in peasant communities and eighteenth-century Tyrolean marriage contracts Margareth Lanzinger 6. Paternal power after death: Rome in the nineteenth century Angiolina Arru

Margareth Lanzinger currently teaches Early Modern History at the Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany. Her research interests centre on micro-history, historical anthropology, gender history and cultural history, especially as they relate to the topics of kinship, marriage, property arrangements, legal practices and administrative practices. She is a member of the editorial board of L'Homme. Z.F.G., Historische Anthropologie and Quaderni Storici.

• 1. Introduction Margareth Lanzinger 2. On the Roman father’s right to kill his adulterous daughter Nikolaus Benke 3. Fatherhood and the non-propertied classes in Renaissance and early modern Italian towns Sandra Cavallo 4. Paternal power: the pleasures and perils of ‘indulgent’ fathering in Britain in the long eighteenth century Joanne Bailey 5. Paternal authority and patrilineal power: stem family arrangements in peasant communities and eighteenth-century Tyrolean marriage contracts Margareth Lanzinger 6. Paternal power after death: Rome in the nineteenth century Angiolina Arru

Margareth Lanzinger currently teaches Early Modern History at the Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany. Her research interests centre on micro-history, historical anthropology, gender history and cultural history, especially as they relate to the topics of kinship, marriage, property arrangements, legal practices and administrative practices. She is a member of the editorial board of L'Homme. Z.F.G., Historische Anthropologie and Quaderni Storici.

• 1. Introduction Margareth Lanzinger 2. On the Roman father’s right to kill his adulterous daughter Nikolaus Benke 3. Fatherhood and the non-propertied classes in Renaissance and early modern Italian towns Sandra Cavallo 4. Paternal power: the pleasures and perils of ‘indulgent’ fathering in Britain in the long eighteenth century Joanne Bailey 5. Paternal authority and patrilineal power: stem family arrangements in peasant communities and eighteenth-century Tyrolean marriage contracts Margareth Lanzinger 6. Paternal power after death: Rome in the nineteenth century Angiolina Arru