Negotiations of Gender and Property through Legal Regimes (14th-19th Century)

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).

• AcknowledgmentsList of Tables and GraphsNotes on Contributors1 Families and Property: Stipulating, Litigating, MediatingMargareth Lanzinger, Janine Maegraith, Siglinde Clementi, Ellinor Forster, and Christian HagenPART 1Differentiated Patterns2 The Exclusion of Women from Inheritance Rights: An Unresolved Issue?Simona Feci3 Inheritance Disputes from Ingelheim Court Records on the Threshold of the Early Modern Period (Fourteenth to Fifteenth Centuries)Regina Schäfer4 Landed Property, Power, and Female Old Age Security in the Nordic CountriesBeatrice Moring5 Negotiating Inheritance in the Western Pyrenees in the Nineteenth Century – Gender Differentiated Treatment and DestiniesMarie-Pierre ArrizabalagaPART2Spaces of Transition6 After the Plague: Women, Marriage, and Property in Trento during the Second Half of the Fourteenth CenturySilvia Mattivi7 Along Family Line and Next of Kin: Negotiating and Safeguarding Dowries and Inheritance in Late Medieval TyrolChristian Hagen8 Gender Imbalance in the Use, Ownership, and Transmission of Property in Early Modern Southern Tyrolean Urban and Rural ContextsJanine MaegraithPART 3Social Spaces – Legal Cultures: Patricians and Nobles9 Family Justice and Public Justice in Dowry and Inheritance Conflicts between Florentine Families (Fourteenth to Fifteenth Centuries)Isabelle Chabot10 Border Patrimonies: The Transmission and Claiming of Property in Women’s Everyday Writings in Sixteenth to Eighteenth-Century FriuliLaura Casella11 A Dispute over Guardianship: The Trentino-Tyrolean Noble Trapp Family between 1641 and 1656Siglinde ClementiPART 4Urban and Rural Spaces: Ascribing and Defending Property, Bequests, and Occupation12 Little to Leave: Labourers’ Goods and the Probate Process in Early Modern EnglandCraig Muldrew13 Property, Power, Gender: Conflicts and Agency of a “Merchantess” in the Archduchy of Austria below the Enns in the Eighteenth CenturyAndrea Griesebner14 After Divorce: Disputes about Property and the Division of Wealth in the Context of Divorce from Bed and Board (Vienna, 1783–1850)Georg TschannettEpilogue15 Wealth in Its Diverse Meanings and Contexts – Concluding CommentMargareth LanzingerIndex