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

Title Planning for death : wills and death-related property arrangements in Europe, 1200-1600 / edited by Mia Korpiola and Anu Lahtinen
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series Medieval law and its practice ; volume 23
Contents Introduction / Mia Korpiola and Anu Lahtinen -- Inheritance law, wills, and strategies of heirship in medieval Sweden / Mia Korpiola and Elsa Trolle Onnerfors -- 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 -- Medieval English lawyers' wills and property strategies / Anthony Musson -- Men and women preparing for death in renaissance Venice (c. 1200-1600) / Federica Mase -- Mutual testaments in late medieval Stockholm, c. 1420-1520 / Marko Lamberg -- Wills as tools of power: development of testamentary practice in krakow during the late middle ages / Jakub Wysmulek -- 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 law / Anu Lahtinen
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. -- Provided by publisher
Notes Includes index
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Subject Wills -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
Wills -- Europe -- History -- 16th century -- Congresses
Law, Medieval -- Congresses
LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
Law, Medieval
Wills
Europe
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Korpiola, Mia, editor
Lahtinen, Anu, editor
LC no. 2018012087
ISBN 9789004365704
9004365702