Donations, Inheritance and Property in the Nordic and Western World from Late Antiquity until Today

Ole-Albert Rønning is a historian and PhD candidate at the University of Oslo, Norway, studying oaths of compurgation in medieval Norwegian law and society, in a comparative perspective. Helle Møller Sigh is a curator at the Strandingsmuseum St. George, Thorsminde, Demark. Helle Vogt is an associate professor at the Centre for Studies in Legal Culture at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her previous publications include The Danish Medieval Laws: The laws of Scania, Zealand and Jutland (2016).

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of Contributors

Introduction

Ole-Albert Rønning, Helle Møller Sigh, Helle Vogt






Gift-Giving and Inheritance in Late Roman Law and Legal Practice Caroline Humfress



The Jurisprudence of the Forced Share in the Ancient World: Cicero to Justinian Charles J. Reid, Jr.



The Jurisprudence of the Forced Share: The High and Late Middle Ages Charles J. Reid, Jr.



Inheritance in the Lands of the Loire, 1050-1200: A Contrast to Nordic and Roman Practice Amy Livingstone



Protecting the Individual, the Kin and the Soul: Donation Regulations in Danish and Norwegian Medieval Legislation Helle Vogt



By Love and by Law: Choices of Female Donors in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Sweden Anu Lahtinen



Gender and Donation Culture in Icelandic from c. 1300-1600 Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir



Luther’s Last Will and the Invention of Testamentary Freedom Mathias Schmoeckel



Pious Donations: The Act of Giving in the Lutheran Church and its Spatial Implications Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen



The Business of Charity and the Charity of Business: Donations in the Norwegian merchant town of Bergen in the seventeenth and eighteenth century Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde



"Immortal mother and benefactor": Honorable Dwellings for Unmarried Gentlewomen and the Dynamics of Donations among the Danish Elite from 1699 to 1745 Helle Møller Sigh



The Age of Miracles? Alms Culture and Charitable Donations in Copenhagen, c. 1770-1830 Peter Wessel Hansen



How to Exchange with the Dead: The significance of heirlooms in contemporary Danish inheritance practices Bodil Selmer



Gifts to, from, and between Spouses: Present Regulation in the Nordic Countries John Asland

Index