Gender, Law and Economic Well-Being in Europe from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century

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 Skłodowska-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.

• ContentsList 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 MICHELETTOPART ILaws 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 RÖWEKAMP5 From legal diversity to centralization: Marriage and wealth in nineteenth-century Greece EVDOXIOS DOXIADISPART IIFamily 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 CLEMENTIPART IIIInside the urban economy 10 The ‘egalitarian trend’ in practice: Female participation in capital markets in late medieval Leuven ANDREA BARDYN11 Women and credit in eighteenth-century Venice: A preliminary analysis MATTEO POMPERMAIER12 Married women, property and paraphernalia in early modern Scotland REBECCA MASON13 Women at work in a Southern European town: Women, guilds and commercial partnerships in Venice in the sixteenth centuryEMILIE FIORUCCI14 Law, wives and the marital economy in sixteenth-century Antwerp: Bridging the gap between theory and practice KAAT CAPPELLE15 Women, law and business formation in early modern Paris JANINE M. LANZA16 Bankruptcies, a gateway to gender history: The example of women book traders in Paris in the nineteenth century VIERA REBOLLEDO-DHUINIndex