This 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. The 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, Tyrol, the Ottoman Empire,
Greece, Romania, and the European colonies in Brazil and Jamaica.
By covering both urban and rural areas and exploring all social
groups, from ruling elites to the lower strata of society, the
chapters offer fresh insight into the division of mobile and
immobile property that socially and economically posed
disadvantages for women. By exploring a broad scope of topics,
including landownership, marriage contracts, slaveholding, and the
dowry, this book is an essential resource for both researchers and
students of women's history, social and economic history, and
material culture.
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