Patrimony and Law in Renaissance Italy

ISBN-13: 9781316513538 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 268 str.

South Carolina) Kuehn Thomas (Clemson University

Opis

Explores how family property was inherited, managed and shared legally and its central role in Renaissance Italy.

Recenzje

'Was familia the fixed point of reference for Renaissance Italy's patriarchal social order? Kuehn complicates and illuminates our understanding of it. The obsession with assembling and transferring property over generations came relatively late, with legal forms evolving to make patrimony, memory, and dignitas the very substance of family identity over time. Complex, fascinating, and necessary reading.' Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Bartolus and Family in Law; 3. The Divisible Patrimony: Legal Property Relations; of Fathers and Sons in Renaissance Florence; 4. Property of Spouses in Law in Renaissance Florence; 5. Societas and Fraterna of Brothers; 6. Fideicommissum and Law: Consilia of Bartolomeo Sozzini and Filippo Decio; 7. Estate Inventories as Legal Instruments in Renaissance Italy; 8. Prudence, Personhood, and Law in Renaissance Italy; 9. Addendum: A Final Case; 10. Conclusion.