This book looks at how social, cultural, geographical and economic environment as well as different legal and juridical systems have shaped and influenced the access of women and men to the economy and to the market and how these systems allowed spaces for economic actions, according to a gendered perspective.
This book looks at how social, cultural, geographical and economic environment as well as different legal and juridical systems have shaped and influenced the access of women and men to the economy and to the market and how these systems allowed spaces for economic actions, according to a gendered perspective.
Anna Bellavitis is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Rouen-Normandy, Director of the Groupe de Recherche d'Histoire (GRHis EA3831) and Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Beatrice Zucca Micheletto is Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie Fellow at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, University of Cambridge, and associated researcher at the Groupe de Recherche d'Histoire, University of Rouen-Normandy.
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Contents List of figures List of tables List of editors and contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: North versus South - gender, law and economic well-being in Europe in the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries ANNA BELLAVITIS AND BEATRICE ZUCCA MICHELETTO PART I Laws 1 Community of goods, coverture and capability in Britain: Scotland versus England DEBORAH SIMONTON 2 Between parental power and marital authority: How merchant women stood the test of customary laws in Brittany in the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries NICOLE DUFOURNAUD 3 Exceptional women: Female merchants and working women in Italy in the early modern period SIMONA FECI 4 Married women's property rights in the nineteenth century in France and Spain: A North-South case study MARION RÖWEKAMP 5 From legal diversity to centralization: Marriage and wealth in nineteenth-century Greece EVDOXIOS DOXIADIS PART II Family strategies or marital economies? 6 Marriage, law and property: Married noblewomen's role in property management in fifteenth-century Norway SUSANN ANETT PEDERSEN 7 Class privileges and the public good: The monti dei maritaggi in early modern Naples VITTORIA FIORELLI 8 Women of high- and medium-ranking officers in the Île-de-France between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: What economic agency? CLAIRE CHATELAIN 9 Undivided brothers - renouncing sisters: Family strategies of low nobility in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Tyrol SIGLINDE CLEMENTI PART III Inside the urban economy 10 The 'egalitarian trend' in practice: Female participation in capital markets in late medieval Leuven ANDREA BARDYN 11 Women and credit in eighteenth-century Venice: A preliminary analysis MATTEO POMPERMAIER 12 Married women, property and paraphernalia in early modern Scotland REBECCA MASON 13 Women at work in a Southern European town: Women, guilds and commercial partnerships in Venice in the sixteenth century EMILIE FIORUCCI 14 Law, wives and the marital economy in sixteenth-century Antwerp: Bridging the gap between theory and practice KAAT CAPPELLE 15 Women, law and business formation in early modern Paris JANINE M. LANZA 16 Bankruptcies, a gateway to gender history: The example of women book traders in Paris in the nineteenth century VIERA REBOLLEDO-DHUIN Index
Contents List of figures List of tables List of editors and contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: North versus South - gender, law and economic well-being in Europe in the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries ANNA BELLAVITIS AND BEATRICE ZUCCA MICHELETTO PART I Laws 1 Community of goods, coverture and capability in Britain: Scotland versus England DEBORAH SIMONTON 2 Between parental power and marital authority: How merchant women stood the test of customary laws in Brittany in the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries NICOLE DUFOURNAUD 3 Exceptional women: Female merchants and working women in Italy in the early modern period SIMONA FECI 4 Married women's property rights in the nineteenth century in France and Spain: A North-South case study MARION RÖWEKAMP 5 From legal diversity to centralization: Marriage and wealth in nineteenth-century Greece EVDOXIOS DOXIADIS PART II Family strategies or marital economies? 6 Marriage, law and property: Married noblewomen's role in property management in fifteenth-century Norway SUSANN ANETT PEDERSEN 7 Class privileges and the public good: The monti dei maritaggi in early modern Naples VITTORIA FIORELLI 8 Women of high- and medium-ranking officers in the Île-de-France between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: What economic agency? CLAIRE CHATELAIN 9 Undivided brothers - renouncing sisters: Family strategies of low nobility in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Tyrol SIGLINDE CLEMENTI PART III Inside the urban economy 10 The 'egalitarian trend' in practice: Female participation in capital markets in late medieval Leuven ANDREA BARDYN 11 Women and credit in eighteenth-century Venice: A preliminary analysis MATTEO POMPERMAIER 12 Married women, property and paraphernalia in early modern Scotland REBECCA MASON 13 Women at work in a Southern European town: Women, guilds and commercial partnerships in Venice in the sixteenth century EMILIE FIORUCCI 14 Law, wives and the marital economy in sixteenth-century Antwerp: Bridging the gap between theory and practice KAAT CAPPELLE 15 Women, law and business formation in early modern Paris JANINE M. LANZA 16 Bankruptcies, a gateway to gender history: The example of women book traders in Paris in the nineteenth century VIERA REBOLLEDO-DHUIN Index
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