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Gender, Law and Material Culture: Immobile Property and Mobile Goods in Early Modern Europe

Gender, law, and material culture I. The tooth of a hippo as gendered item?I.a Categories of objects: Mobile and immobile I.b Legal relations between objects and persons: Property, possession, and usufruct I.c Sources and social strata I.d Connexion between gender, movability and law I.e An experiment: Degrees of personal attachment?I.f Permanently reassembling II. The content and aims of this book III. Terminology, maps, and drawings Notes Bibliography Early modern political philosophy on rights of ownership I. Private property and ownership II. The status of women within early modern theories of property III. Conclusion Notes Bibliography II Gifts, symbolic values, and strategies Landed property as marital gifts: women and landownership in fifteenth-century Norway I. Retaining marital gifts in practice II. Married couples' property arrangements III. Strategic gift exchange between spouses IV. Property devolution V. A widow and her claim to immobile property: Sigrid Erlendsdotter and the Giske estate VI. Conclusion: Preferring couple to kin Notes Bibliography Married women’s testaments: division and distribution of movable property in seventeenth-century Glasgow I. Introduction: Wives and movable property in Scots law II. Evidence and method III. Dividing and distributing the marital estate IV. Married women's testaments: The transfer of movable property V. What wives bequeathed VI. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Hybrid legal cultures among the early modern Tyrolean nobility: marriage contracts and the symbolic value of assets I. Introduction II. Political and legal contexts III. The marital property regime III.a The husband's counter-gifts IV. Characteristics of marital goods and their securement V. Arrangements for widowhood V. Material value and symbolic valence VI. Conclusion Notes Bibliography III Women’s access to immobile property Fenced in or out? Women and landownership in early modern southern Tyrol I. Introduction: The function and meaning of fences II. Fences and property in early modern Tyrol III. Land purchase contracts and gender distribution of property III.a Gender of sellers and buyers III.b Transfer of landownership by type of property lll.c Financing purchases III.d Change over time?IV. Conclusion: The fence as a signpost for inequality Notes Bibliography Women, land, and usufruct in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire: a case study of Vidin and Antakya I. An introduction to the land law in the Ottoman Empire II. Land politics in the eighteenth-century towns of Vidin and Antakya III. The case of the mill and the meadowland in Vidin: What could happen when the land was left?IV. The case of Safiye versus Saniye: A dispute over private property V. Ummiihan versus Mustafa Be§e: Privately owned or state-owned land?VI. Conclusion Notes Bibliography IV Women, law, and property in colonial contexts In her own right: gender, slaveholding, and movable goods in colonial Jamaica I. III-gotten gains: Free women and the entrenchment of slaveholding Jamaica II. "Not subject to his control during her life": Protecting women's property claims III. "One negroe girl Savannah by name": The conflict between personal property and personhood Notes Bibliography Land, slaves, and honour: women’s ownership and possession in colonial Brazil (Paraíba)I. Introduction II. Possessing land: The cartas de data e sesmaria II.a Women and possession of land (sesmarias)III. Transferring and inheriting: Succession, wills, "charters of halves", and dowry contracts III.a Immovable property in the captaincy of Paraiba III.b Mobile goods and half-movables: Household items and slaves III.c Privileges and dowries IV. Abstract goods: "Virginity" and honour V. Protecting property outside of marriage: Concubinage and illegitimate children VI. Conclusion Notes Bibliography V Women and property in transitory zones Women and movable goods in a maritime border economy in nineteenth-century Sicily (Aeolian Islands)I. Introduction: Women's wealth and material goods II. Owning and devolving goods in Stromboli III. Trading with privateers IV. Typology of objects owned, used, and traded by women V. Conclusion: "Women of the sea" and their material world Notes Bibliography Stamp duty and the transformation of the dowry in nineteenth-century Greece I. Introduction II. The dowry in Ottoman times III. The modern Greek state IV. Women, dowry, and the modern state Notes Bibliography Starting a married life: women and goods in the mid-nineteenth-century Romanian towns of Piteşti and Câmpulung I. The legal institution of the dowry in the Romanian principality of Wallachia II. Two town settings in Wallachia: Campulung and Pite§ti III. Sources and methodology IV. What women get: A quantitative analysis of Pite§ti and Campulung's dowry registers IV. a Immovable property IV.b A special category of immobile property: Gypsy slaves IV.c Movable goods: Between homemade and luxury V. Conclusion Notes Bibliography VI Synthesis Movable goods and immovable property: interrelated perspectives I. Movable goods and immovable property: Seen separately and in comparison I.a Immovable goods I.b Movable goods I.c Modes of transfer II. The ambiguity of movable and immovable goods III. Movable and immovable property: Interrelated III.a Convertibility within movable goods or between movable and immovable goods III.b What was considered integral to a house?IV. Conclusion Notes Bibliography

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