Across the religious divide : women, property, and law in the wider Mediterranean (ca. 1300-1800) / edited by Jutta Gisela Sperling and Shona Kelly Wray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sperling, Jutta Gisela.

Wray, Shona Kelly.

Series:

Routledge research in gender and history ; 11.

Routledge research in gender and history ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Mediterranean Region--History.

Women.

Women--Mediterranean Region--Social conditions.

Women and religion--Mediterranean Region--History.

Women and religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examining women's property rights in different societies across the entire medieval and early modern Mediterranean, this volume introduces a unique comparative perspective to the complexities of gender relations in Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities. Through individual case studies based on urban and rural, elite and non-elite, religious and secular communities, Across the Religious Divide presents the only nuanced history of the region that incorporates peripheral areas such as Portugal, the Aegean Islands, Dalmatia, and Albania into the central narrative. By bridgin

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps and Tables; Introduction; 1 Regulating Sex: A Brief Survey of Medieval Copto- Arabic Canons; 2 The Boundaries of Affection: Women and Property in Late Medieval Avignon; 3 Women in Court in Early Fourteenth-Century Venice; 4 Testamentary Bequests of Urban Noblewomen on the Eastern Adriatic Coast in the Fourteenth Century: The Case of Zadar; 5 Women, Testaments, and Notarial Culture in Bologna's Contado (1348); 6 Jewish Women and Property in Fifteenth-Century Umbria

7 The Power to Divide?: Germanía Marriage Contracts in Early Fifteenth-Century Valencia8 In the Shadow of the Campo: Sienese Women and Their Families (c. 1400-1600); 9 Women, Marriage, and Family in Istrian Communes in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; 10 Marriage, Kinship, and Property in Portuguese Testaments (1649-1650); 11 Women, Family, and Property in Early Modern Venice; 12 Jewish Women in Eighteenth- Century Modena: Individual, Household, and Collective Properties; 13 Counting on Kin: Women and Property in Eighteenth-Century Cairo

14 From Mahalle (Neighborhood) to the Market and the Courts: Women, Credit, and Property in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul15 Kin and Marriage in Two Aegean Islands at the End of the Eighteenth Century; 16 Women as Outsiders: The Inheritance of Agricultural Land in the Ottoman Empire; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-296) and index.

ISBN:

1-135-23501-5

1-282-31596-X

9786612315961

0-203-86608-8

9780203866085

OCLC:

472599126