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Author Howell, Martha C.

Title The marriage exchange : property, social place, and gender in cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1550 / Martha C. Howell
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 278 pages)
Series Women in culture and society
Women in culture and society.
Contents Cover; CONTENTS; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Note on Money, Dates, and Names; Introduction -- Le Libert v. Rohard; Chapter 1 -- From Custom to Contract; Chapter 2 -- The Social Context of Custom; Chapter 3 -- Legal Reform as Social Engineering; Chapter 4 -- The Social Logic -- and Illogic -- of Custom; Chapter 5 -- An Alternative Logic; Chapter 6 -- Living with the New; Chapter 7 -- The Weight of Experience; Chapter 8 -- The Douaisien Reform in Historical Context; Conclusion -- Marie, Franchoise, and Their Sisters; Appendix A -- The Evolution of Douai's Douaire Coutumier
Summary Medieval Douai was one of the wealthiest cloth towns of Flanders, and it left an enormous archive documenting the personal financial affairs of its citizens--wills, marriage agreements, business contracts, and records of court disputes over property rights of all kinds. Based on extensive research in this archive, this book reveals how these documents were produced in a centuries-long effort to regulate--and ultimately to redefine--property and gender relations. At the center of the transformation was a shift from a marital property regime based on custom to one based on contract. In the former, a
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Subject Marital property -- Flanders -- History
Husband and wife -- Flanders -- History
Marital property -- France -- Douai -- History
Husband and wife -- France -- Douai -- History
Law, Medieval.
Husband and wife -- Belgium -- Flanders -- History
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Husband and wife
Law, Medieval
Marital property
Huwelijksgoederenrecht.
Vrouwen.
Sociale aspecten.
14e siècle.
15e siècle.
Droit médiéval.
Femme.
Histoire sociale.
Contrat de mariage.
Patrimoine familial.
Régime matrimonial.
Relation homme-femme.
Belgium -- Flanders
Europe -- Flanders
France -- Douai
Douai (France)
Flandre.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226355177
0226355179
9780226355153
0226355152