Research Catalog

Title

• The marriage exchange : property, social place, and gender in cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1550 / Martha C. Howell.

Author

Howell, Martha C.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1998.

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Details

Description

xv, 278 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

• Women in culture and society

Uniform Title

• Women in culture and society
• Women in culture and society.

Subject

• Geschichte 1300-1550
• Husband and wife > Douai > History
• Husband and wife > Flanders > History
• Law, Medieval
• Marital property > Douai > History
• Marital property > Flanders > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Le Libert v. Rohard -- Ch. 1. From Custom to Contract -- Ch. 2. The Social Context of Custom -- Ch. 3. Legal Reform as Social Engineering -- Ch. 4. The Social Logic -- and Illogic -- of Custom -- Ch. 5. An Alternative Logic -- Ch. 6. Living with the New -- Ch. 7. The Weight of Experience -- Ch. 8. The Douaisien Reform in Historical Context -- Conclusion: Marie, Franchoise, and Their Sisters -- App. A. The Evolution of Douai's Douaire Coutumier -- App. B. Written Custom and Old Custom in Douai -- Glossary of Legal Terminology -- Glossary of Measures.

ISBN

• 0226355152
• 0226355160 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^97037905^

OCLC

37606287

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library