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9780754637813

The Marital Economy In Scandinavia And Britain 1400-1900

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    9780754637813

  • ISBN10:

    0754637816

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-01-31
  • Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

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Summary

Marriage today is our prime social and legal institution. Historically, it was also the principal economic institution. This collection of essays offers a wealth of original research into the economic, social and legal history of the marital partnership in northern Europe over a 500-year period.

Table of Contents

List of figureslmap
vii
List of tables
viii
List of contributors
ix
Acknowledgements xi
Note on dates xi
Introduction
The Marital economy in comparative perspective
3(20)
Amy Louise Erickson
PART I FORMING THE PARTNERSHIP
Marriage or money? Legal actions for enforcement of marriage contracts in Norway
23(16)
Hanne Marie Johansen
Making marriages in early modern England: rethinking the role of family and friends
39(18)
Catherine Frances
Forming the partnership socially and economically: a Swedish local elite, 1650--1770
57(18)
Gudrun Andersson
Forming the marital economy in the early modern Finnish countryside
75(14)
Anu Pylkkanen
Servants in rural England c. 1450--1650: hired work as a means of accumulating wealth and skills before marriage
89(22)
Jane Whittle
PART II MANAGING THE PARTNERSHIP
Decision-making on marital property in Norway, 1500--1800
111(16)
Hilde Sandvik
Property and authority in Danish marital law
127(14)
Inger Dubeck
Marital conflict over the gender division of labour in agrarian households, Sweden 1750--1850
141(16)
Rosemarie Fiebranz
Working together? Different understandings of marital relations in late nineteenth-century Finland
157(18)
Ann-Catrin Ostman
PART III DISSOLVING THE PARTNERSHIP
Marriage trouble, separation and divorce in early modern Norway
175(16)
Hanne Marie Johansen
`To the longer liver': provisions for the dissolution of the marital economy in Scotland, 1470--1550
191(16)
Elizabeth Ewan
Death and donation: different channels of property transfer in late medieval Iceland
207(14)
Agnes S. Arnorsdottir
Individualism or self-sacrifice? Decision-making and retirement within the early modern marital economy in Sweden
221(18)
Maria Agren
AFTERWORD
Recovering a lost inheritance: the marital economy and its absence from the prehistory of economics in Britain
239(18)
Michael Roberts
Bibliography of secondary literature 257(22)
Glossary 279(4)
Index 283

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