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Gender and Well-Being GENDER, LAW AND ECONOMIC WELL-BEING IN EUROPE FROM THE FIFTEENTH TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY NORTH VERSUS SOUTH? Edited by Anna Bellavitis and Beatrice Zucca Micheletto Gender, Law and Economic Well-Being in Europe from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century This book offers a comparative perspective on Northern and Southern European laws and customs concerning women’s property and economic rights. By focus- ing on both Northern and Southern European societies, these studies analyse the consequences of different juridical frameworks and norms on the development of the economic roles of men and women. This volume is divided into three parts. The first, Laws, presents general out- lines related to some European regions; the second, Family strategies or marital economies?, questions the potential conflict between the economic interests of the married couple and those of the lineage within the nobility; finally, the third part of the book, Inside the urban economy, focuses on economic and work activi- ties of the middle and lower classes in the urban environment. The assorted and rich panorama offered by the history of the legislation on women’s economic rights shows that similarities and differences run through Europe in such a way that the North/South model looks very stereotyped. While this approach calls into question classical geographical and cultural maps and well-established chro- nologies, it encourages a reconsideration of European history according to a cross-boundaries perspective. By drawing on a wide range of social, economic and cultural European con- texts, from the late medieval to early modern age to the nineteenth century, and including the middle and lower classes (especially artisans, merchants and trad- ers) as well as the economic practices and norms of the upper middle class and aristocracy, this book will be of interest to economic and social historians, soci- ologists of health, gender and sexuality, and economists. Anna Bellavitis is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Rouen-Normandy, Director of the Groupe de Recherche d’Histoire (GRHis EA3831) and Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Beatrice Zucca Micheletto is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, University of Cambridge, and associated researcher at the Groupe de Recherche d’Histoire, University of Rouen-Normandy. Gender and Well-Being Series editors: Christina Borderias and Bernard Harris https://www.routledge.com/Gender-and-Well-Being/book-series/ASHSER1313 The aim of this series is to enhance our understanding of the relationship between gender and well-being by addressing the following questions: • How can we compare levels of well-being between women and men? Is it possible to develop new indicators which reflect a fuller understanding of the nature of well-being in the twenty-first century? • How have women and men contributed to the improvement of individual well-being at different times and in different places? • What role should institutions play in promoting and maintaining well-being? • In what ways have different social movements contributed to the improve- ment of well-being over the last 300 years? The volumes in this series are designed to provide rigorous social-scientific answers to these questions. Books in the series: Gender and Well-Being in Europe Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Edited by Bernard Harris, Lina Gálvez and Helena Machato Gender and Well-Being The Role of Institutions Edited by Elisabetta Addis, Paloma de Villota, Florence Degavre and John Eriksen Gender Inequalities, Households and the Production of Well-Being in Modern Europe Edited by Tindara Addabbo, Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga, Cristina Borderías and Alastair Owens Gender, Law and Economic Well-Being in Europe from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century North versus South? Edited by Anna Bellavitis and Beatrice Zucca Micheletto Gender, Law and Economic Well-Being in Europe from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century North versus South? Edited by Anna Bellavitis and Beatrice Zucca Micheletto First published 2019 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business 2019 selection and editorial matter, Anna Bellavitis and Beatrice Zucca Micheletto; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Anna Bellavitis and Beatrice Zucca Micheletto to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Bellavitis, Anna, editor. | Zucca Micheletto, Beatrice, editor. Title: Gender, law and economic well-being in Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century : North versus South? / edited by Anna Bellavitis and Beatrice Zucca Micheletto. Description: 1st Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Gender and well-being | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018007733| ISBN 9781138571518 (hardback) | ISBN 9780203702727 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Women—Europe—Social conditions—History. | Sex discrimination against women—Law and legislation—Europe—History. | Women—Legal status, laws, etc.—Europe—History. | Equality before the law—United States—Europe—History. Classification: LCC HQ1587 .G463 2018 | DDC 305.409409/04—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018007733 ISBN: 978-1-138-57151-8 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-203-70272-7 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Swales & Willis Ltd, Exeter, Devon, UK Contents List of figures viii List of tables ix List of editors and contributors x Acknowledgements xvi Introduction: North versus South – gender, law and economic well-being in Europe in the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries 1 ANNA BELLAVITIS AND BEATRICE ZUCCA MICHELETTO PART I Laws 29 1 Community of goods, coverture and capability in Britain: Scotland versus England 31 DEBORAH SIMONTON 2 Between parental power and marital authority: How merchant women stood the test of customary laws in Brittany in the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries 47 NICOLE DUFOURNAUD 3 Exceptional women: Female merchants and working women in Italy in the early modern period 62 SIMONA FECI 4 Married women’s property rights in the nineteenth century in France and Spain: A North–South case study 77 MARION RÖWEKAMP vi Contents 5 From legal diversity to centralization: Marriage and wealth in nineteenth-century Greece 91 EVDOXIOS DOXIADIS PART II Family strategies or marital economies? 107 6 Marriage, law and property: Married noblewomen’s role in property management in fifteenth-century Norway 109 SUSANN ANETT PEDERSEN 7 Class privileges and the public good: The monti dei maritaggi in early modern Naples 121 VITTORIA FIORELLI 8 Women of high- and medium-ranking officers in the Île-de- France between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: What economic agency? 136 CLAIRE CHATELAIN 9 Undivided brothers – renouncing sisters: Family strategies of low nobility in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Tyrol 149 SIGLINDE CLEMENTI PART III Inside the urban economy 165 10 The ‘egalitarian trend’ in practice: Female participation in capital markets in late medieval Leuven 167 ANDREA BARDYN 11 Women and credit in eighteenth-century Venice: A preliminary analysis 183 MATTEO POMPERMAIER 12 Married women, property and paraphernalia in early modern Scotland 200 REBECCA MASON 13 Women at work in a Southern European town: Women, guilds and commercial partnerships in Venice in the sixteenth century 215 EMILIE FIORUCCI Contents vii 14 Law, wives and the marital economy in sixteenth-century Antwerp: Bridging the gap between theory and practice 228 KAAT CAPPELLE 15 Women, law and business formation in early modern Paris 242 JANINE M. LANZA 16 Bankruptcies, a gateway to gender history: The example of women book traders in Paris in the nineteenth century 254 VIERA REBOLLEDO-DHUIN Index 272 Figures 10.1 The relative distribution of the amounts borrowed by men, women and married couples in Brabant groats (n = 851) 177 10.2 The relative distribution of the amounts loaned by men, women and married couples in Brabant groats (n = 523) 177 11.1 Goods hired by Elena Santa Croce to Pasqua Breda 189 11.2 Average price of handkerchiefs at the Inn Del Pellegrino, 5 January 1789 192 11.3 Average price of shirts at the Inn Del Pellegrino, 5 January 1789 193 16.1 Booksellers’ licences granted to women and men in Paris, 1811–1875 255 Tables 8.1 Testamentary executors of the Pommereu estate 143 10.1 The marital status of female debtors and creditors by credit type (n = 87) 173 10.2 The market share of men, women, married couples, groups and institutions (n = 1037) 176 10.3 Investment patterns of men, women, married couples, groups and institutions (n = 1037) 179 11.1 Comparison between generic cappi and silver cappi 192 11.2 Pawned objects in the bastione of San Trovaso, 1 September 1750 193 16.1 Elapsed time between professional establishment and marriage of the Parisian booksellers in bankruptcy from 1830 to 1870 256 16.2 Marital regimes adopted by bankrupt Parisian booksellers, 1830 to 1870 259 16.3 Creditors belonging to the kin group of bankrupt Parisian booksellers, 1830 to 1870 262
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