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Across the religious divide : women, property, and law in the wider Mediterranean /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sperling, Jutta Gisela, Wray, Shona Kelly
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2010.
Colección:Routledge research in gender and history ; 11.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps and Tables; Introduction; 1 Regulating Sex: A Brief Survey of Medieval Copto- Arabic Canons; 2 The Boundaries of Affection: Women and Property in Late Medieval Avignon; 3 Women in Court in Early Fourteenth-Century Venice; 4 Testamentary Bequests of Urban Noblewomen on the Eastern Adriatic Coast in the Fourteenth Century: The Case of Zadar; 5 Women, Testaments, and Notarial Culture in Bologna's Contado (1348); 6 Jewish Women and Property in Fifteenth-Century Umbria
  • 7 The Power to Divide?: Germanía Marriage Contracts in Early Fifteenth-Century Valencia8 In the Shadow of the Campo: Sienese Women and Their Families (c. 1400-1600); 9 Women, Marriage, and Family in Istrian Communes in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; 10 Marriage, Kinship, and Property in Portuguese Testaments (1649-1650); 11 Women, Family, and Property in Early Modern Venice; 12 Jewish Women in Eighteenth- Century Modena: Individual, Household, and Collective Properties; 13 Counting on Kin: Women and Property in Eighteenth-Century Cairo
  • 14 From Mahalle (Neighborhood) to the Market and the Courts: Women, Credit, and Property in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul15 Kin and Marriage in Two Aegean Islands at the End of the Eighteenth Century; 16 Women as Outsiders: The Inheritance of Agricultural Land in the Ottoman Empire; Bibliography; Index