Propertied women's economic agency in Norway c.1400-1550

VI, 208 Seiten

The Northern world : Nw ; North Europe and the Baltic c. 400 - 1700 AD ; peoples, economies and cultures. - Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, ISSN 1569-1462, ZDB-ID 2077862-4. - Vol. volume 95

Dissertation, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2021

Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 193-204 ; Index

Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1 Introduction 1 Women's Economic Agency 2 Elite Women, Marital Status, and the Ability to Make Independent Economic Choices 3 Approach and Plan of Study 4 The Actors and Their Context 5 Sources 2 Negotiating and Securing Inheritance 1 The Daughter's Share in Law and Practice 2 Minors and Their Guardians 3 Unmarried Heiresses 4 Married Women and Their Husbands 5 Widows 6 Concluding Remarks 3 Arranging and Dissolving the Marital Property 1 Negotiating Marriage 1.1 A Woman's First Marriage 1.2 Remarriage 2 The Changing Patterns of Marital Property Arrangements in the Late Medieval Period 3 Helmingsf é lag through Two Generations 4 Marital Gift Exchange 5 Retaining the Widow's Share of the Marital Property in Practice 6 Concluding Remarks 4 Gifting Landed Property 1 Women's Donations to Ecclesiastical Institutions 2 Distributing Landed Property among Individuals 3 Consent and Conditions 4 Concluding Remarks 5 Purchasing, Exchanging and Selling Landed Property 1 Unmarried Heiresses' and Widows' Property Transactions 2 The Economic Partnership between Husband and Wife as Expressed through Property Accumulation 2.1 Was There a Set Limit to Married Women's Purchases? 2.2 Two Married Couples' Accumulation of Landed Property - Differences and Similarities 3 Women's Motivations to Purchase, Sell and Exchange Landed Property 4 Concluding Remarks 6 Entering Credit Relations 1 Married Women and Their Property's Role in Credit Transactions 1.1 A Creditor in Her Own Name - Philippa Hansdotter 1.2 Married Couples' Credit Transactions 2 Widows Settling Their Deceased Husbands' Unfinished Credit Transactions 2.1 Transfer of Debt at Death - a Question of Responsibility 2.2 Finalising a Late Husband's Credit Transactions 3 Widows' Own Credit Transactions 4 Women Representing Their Natal Families' Economic Interests 5 An Inside Perspective: Anne Rud Negotiating Her Late Husband's Credit Network 6 Concluding Remarks 7 Propertied Women's Economic Agency 1 Options, Choice of Action, and the Consequences of Choices Made 2 Women's Formal and Informal Roles 3 Elite Women as Economic Actors in Late Medieval Norway Bibliography Index

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