Across the religious divide : women, property, and law in the wider Mediterranean (ca. 1300-1800)
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Across the religious divide : women, property, and law in the wider Mediterranean (ca. 1300-1800)
(Routledge research in gender and history, 11)
Routledge, 2010
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-296) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Examining women's property rights in different societies across the entire medieval and early modern Mediterranean, this volume introduces a unique comparative perspective to the complexities of gender relations in Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities. Through individual case studies based on urban and rural, elite and non-elite, religious and secular communities, Across the Religious Divide presents the only nuanced history of the region that incorporates peripheral areas such as Portugal, the Aegean Islands, Dalmatia, and Albania into the central narrative.
By bridging the present-day notional and cultural divide between Muslim and Judeo-Christian worlds with geographical and thematic coherence, this collection of essays by top international scholars focuses on women in courts of law and sources such as notarial records, testaments, legal commentaries, and administrative records to offer the most advanced research and illuminate real connections across boundaries of gender, religion, and culture.
Table of Contents
List of Maps and Tables. Introduction. Jutta Gisela Sperling and Shona Kelly Wray. 1. Regulating Sex: A Brief Survey of Medieval Copto-Arabic Canons. Maryann Shenoda. 2. The Boundaries of Affection: Women and Property in Late Medieval Avignon. Joelle Rollo-Koster. 3. Women in Court in Early Fourteenth-Century Venice. Linda Guzzetti. 4. Testamentary Bequests of Urban Noblewomen on the Eastern Adriatic Coast in the Fourteenth Century: The Case of Zadar. Branka Gbravac. 5. Women, Testaments, and Notarial Culture in Bologna's Contado (1348). Shona Kelly Wray. 6. Women and Property in Fifteenth-Century Umbria. Karen Frank. 7. The Power to Divide? Germania Marriage Contracts in Early Fifteenth- Century Valencia. Dana Wessell Lightfoot. 8. In the Shadow of the Campo: Sienese Women and Their Families (ca. 1400-1600). Elena Brizio. 9. Women, Marriage, and Family in Istrian Communes in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Marija Mogorovic Crljenko. 10. Marriage, Kinship, and Property in Portuguese Testaments (1649-1650). Jutta Gisela Sperling. 11. Women, Family, and Property in Early Modern Venice. Anna Bellavitis. 12. Jewish Women in Eighteenth-Century Modena: Individual, Household, and Collective Properties. Federica Francesconi. 13. Counting on Kin: Women and Property in Eighteenth-Century Cairo. Mary Ann Fay. 14. From Mahalle (Neighborhood) to the Market and the Courts: Women, Credit, and Property in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul. Fariba Zarinebaf. 15. Kin and Marriage in Two Aegean Islands at the End of the Eighteenth Century. Evdoxios Doxiadis. 16. Women as Outsiders: The Inheritance of Agricultural Land in the Ottoman Empire. Colin Imber. Contributors. References. Index.
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