Planning for Death

Mia Korpiola, LL.D. (2004), University of Helsinki, is Professor of Legal History at the University of Turku. She had authored and edited several books, including Regional Variations in Matrimonial Law and Custom in Europe, 1150-1600 (Brill, 2011).Anu Lahtinen, Ph.D. (2007), University of Turku, is Professor of Finnish and Nordic History at the University of Helsinki. She has published on medieval and early modern history, including Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe (Brill, 2017).

"This volume recommends itself with its careful consideration of the ways law and practice interacted, as well as its attention to how gender influenced how law could be deployed to carry out final wishes. It is also valuable in bringing the legal system and practice of early modern Scandinavia to the fore of legal studies, which have often focused more on studies of England and France, broadening our understanding of early modern legal histories". Janine Lanza, in Renaissance Quarterly, Renaissance Quarterly, 73 (1), pp. 269-270.

• List of Illustrations and FiguresList of Contributors1 IntroductionMia Korpiola and Anu LahtinenPart 1: Range of Legal Options and Their Use2 Inheritance Law, Wills, and Strategies of Heirship in Medieval SwedenMia Korpiola and Elsa Trolle Önnerfors3 Monastic Donations by Widows: Morning Gifts as Assets in Planning for Old Age and Death in Fifteenth-Century SwedenTuula Rantala4 Competing Interests in Death-Related Stipulations in South Tirol, c. 1350–1600Christian Hagen, Margareth Lanzinger, and Janine MaegraithPart 2: Wills, Property Strategies, and Testamentary Practice5 Medieval English Lawyers’ Wills and Property StrategiesAnthony Musson6 Men and Women Preparing for Death in Renaissance Venice (c. 1200–1600)Federica Masè7 Mutual Testaments in Late Medieval Stockholm, c. 1420–1520Marko LambergPart 3: Wills, Property, and Authority8 Wills as Tools of Power: Development of Testamentary Practice in Krakow during the Late Middle AgesJakub Wysmułek9 Deathbed Strife and the Law of Wills in Medieval and Early Modern EnglandR.H. Helmholz10 The Will of Filippa Fleming (1578), Family Relations, and Swedish Inheritance LawAnu LahtinenIndex of PersonsGeneral Index