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Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence (Hardcover)
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Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence (Hardcover)
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Visions of modernity rest in part on a distinction between
inherited status (past) and achievement (present). Inheritance is
taken as automatic, if not axiomatic; the recipients are passive,
if grateful. This study, based on a singular source (Florentine
repudiations of inheritance), reveals that inheritance was in fact
a process, that heirs had options: at the least, to reject a
burdensome patrimony, but also to maneuver property to others and
to avoid (at times deceptively, if not fraudulently) the claims of
others to portions of the estate. Repudiation was a vestige of
Roman law that became once again a viable legal institution with
the revival of Roman law in the Middle Ages. Florentines
incorporated repudiation into their strategies of adjustment after
death, showing that they were not merely passive recipients of what
came their way. These strategies fostered family goals, including
continuity across the generations.
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