Title Across the religious divide : women, property, and law in the wider Mediterranean / edited by Jutta Gisela Sperling and Shona Kelly Wray

Published New York : Routledge, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 309 pages) : maps Series Routledge research in gender and history ; 11 Routledge research in gender and history ; 11. 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-296) and index Notes Print version record Subject Women -- Mediterranean Region -- History Women -- Mediterranean Region -- Social conditions Women and religion -- Mediterranean Region -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family. Women Women and religion Women -- Social conditions Mediterranean Region Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book Author Sperling, Jutta Gisela. Wray, Shona Kelly. ISBN 0203866088 9780203866085

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