Planning for death : wills and death-related property arrangements in Europe, 1200-1600 / edited by Mia Korpiola and Anu Lahtinen.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Korpiola, Mia.

Lahtinen, Anu.

Conference Name:

Preparing for Death in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Conference) (2013 : Helsingin yliopiston tutkijakollegium)

Series:

Medieval Law and Its Practice 23.

Medieval law and its practice ; v. 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wills--Europe--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Wills.

Wills--Europe--History--16th century--Congresses.

Law, Medieval--Congresses.

Law, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

List of Illustrations and Figures

List of Contributors

Introduction / Mia Korpiola and Anu Lahtinen

Range of Legal Options and Their Use

Inheritance Law, Wills, and Strategies of Heirship in Medieval Sweden1 / 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

Wills, Property Strategies, and Testamentary Practice

Medieval English Lawyers' Wills and Property Strategies1 / Anthony Musson

Men and Women Preparing for Death in Renaissance Venice (c. 1200-1600) / Federica Masè

Mutual Testaments in Late Medieval Stockholm, c. 1420-15201 / Marko Lamberg

Wills, Property, and Authority

Wills as Tools of Power: Development of Testamentary Practice in Krakow during the Late Middle Ages1 / Jakub Wysmułek

Deathbed Strife and the Law of Wills in Medieval and Early Modern England / R.H. Helmholz

The Will of Filippa Fleming (1578), Family Relations, and Swedish Inheritance Law1 / Anu Lahtinen.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

90-04-36570-2

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004365704 DOI