The marital economy in Scandinavia and Britain, 1400-1900. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Maria Ågren and Amy Louise Erickson.
• Other Names: Ågren, Maria; Erickson, Amy Louise
• Contents: The marital economy in comparative perspective / Amy Louise Erickson -- Marriage or money? : legal actions for enforcement of marriage contracts in Norway / Hanne Marie Johansen -- Making marriages in early modern England : rethinking the role of family and friends / Catherine Frances -- Forming the partnership socially and economically : a Swedish local elite, 1650-1770 / Gudrun Andersson -- Forming the marital economy in the early modern Finnish countryside / Anu Pylkkänen -- Servants in rural England c.1450-1650 : hired work as a means of accumulating wealth and skills before marriage / Jane Whittle -- Decision-making on marital property in Norway, 1500-1800 / Hilde Sandvik -- Property and authority in Danish marital law / Inger Dübeck -- Marital conflict over the gender division of labour in agrarian households, Sweden, 1750-1850 / Rosemarie Fiebranz -- Working together? : different understandings of marital relations in late nineteenth-century Finland / Ann-Catrin Östman -- Marriage trouble, separation and divorce in early modern Norway / Hanne Marie Johansen -- "To the longer liver" : provisions for the dissolution of the marital economy in Scotland, 1470-1550 / Elizabeth Ewan -- Death and donation : different channels of property transfer in late medieval Iceland / Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir -- Individualism or self-sacrifice? : decision-making and retirement within the early modern marital economy in Sweden / Maria Ågren -- Recovering a lost inheritance : the marital economy and its absence from the prehistory of economics in Britain / Michael Roberts.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (302 pages)
• Subjects: 306.81/0941; Marriage -- Economic aspects -- Scandinavia; Marriage -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain; Mariage -- Aspect économique -- Scandinavie; Mariage -- Aspect économique -- Grande-Bretagne; Marriage -- Economic aspects; Huwelijk; Economische aspecten; Ehe; Wirtschaft; Äktenskap -- ekonomisk ställning -- Skandinavien -- Storbritannien -- 1400-talet -- nya tiden; Arbetsuppgifter -- könsfördelning; Ekonomisk historia; Eheliches Güterrecht; Äktenskapet -- ekonomiska aspekter -- historia -- Storbritannien -- 1400-1900; Äktenskapet -- ekonomiska aspekter -- historia -- Norden -- 1400-1900; Great Britain; Scandinavia; Großbritannien; Nordische Staaten; Skandinavien; Aufsatzsammlung
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351885973; 1351885979
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