The Marital Economy In Scandinavia And Britain 1400-1900

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ISBN: 9780754637813 | 0754637816
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Copyright: 1/31/2005

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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.

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List of tables

viii

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Note on dates

Introduction

The Marital economy in comparative perspective

(20)

Amy Louise Erickson

PART I FORMING THE PARTNERSHIP

Marriage or money? Legal actions for enforcement of marriage contracts in Norway

(16)

Hanne Marie Johansen

Making marriages in early modern England: rethinking the role of family and friends

(18)

Catherine Frances

Forming the partnership socially and economically: a Swedish local elite, 1650--1770

(18)

Gudrun Andersson

Forming the marital economy in the early modern Finnish countryside

(14)

Anu Pylkkanen

Servants in rural England c. 1450--1650: hired work as a means of accumulating wealth and skills before marriage

(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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The Marital Economy In Scandinavia And Britain 1400-1900

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