Gender, Law and Material Culture

Name: Gender, Law and Material Culture
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Gender, Law and Material CultureImmobile Property and Mobile Goods in Early Modern Europe\nAuthor(s): Annette Cremer\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367371777, 978-0367371777\nSynopsis\nThis interdisciplinary volume discusses the division of the early modern material world into the important legal, economic, and personal categories of mobile and immobile property, possession, and the rights to usufruct.\n\nThe chapters describe and compare different modes of acquisition and intergenerational transfer via law and custom. The varying perspectives, including cultural history, legal history, social and economic history, philosophy, and law, allow for a more nuanced understanding of the links between the movability of an object and the gender of the person who owned, possessed, or used it. Case studies and examples come from a wide geographical range, including Norway, England, Scotland, the Holy Roman Empire, Italy.