Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The volume Planning for Death: Wills and Death-Related Property Arrangements in Europe, 1200-1600 analyses death-related property transfers in several European regions (England, Poland, Italy, South Tirol, and Sweden). Laws and customary practice provided a legal framework for all post-mortem property devolution. However, personal preference and varied succession strategies meant that individuals could plan for death by various legal means. These individual legal acts could include matrimonial property arrangements (marriage contracts, morning gifts) and legal means of altering heirship by subtracting or adding heirs. Wills and testamentary practice are given special attention, while the volume also discusses the timing of the legal acts, suggesting that while some people made careful and timely arrangements, others only reacted to sudden events. Contributors are Christian Hagen, R.H. Helmholz, Mia Korpiola, Anu Lahtinen, Marko Lamberg, Margareth Lanzinger, Janine Maegraith, Federica Masè, Anthony Musson, Tuula Rantala, Elsa Trolle Önnerfors, and Jakub Wysmułek.

Wills --- Law, Medieval --- Codicils --- Inheritance and succession --- Legal instruments --- Registers of births, etc. --- Legacies --- Probate records --- Remainders (Estates) --- History --- Law and legislation --- Wills - Europe - History - To 1500 - Congresses --- Wills - Europe - History - 16th century - Congresses --- Law, Medieval - Congresses

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Out of War draws on Mariane C. Ferme's three decades of ethnographic engagements to examine the physical and psychological aftereffects of the harms of Sierra Leone's civil war. Ferme analyzes the relationship between violence, trauma, and the political imagination, focusing on "war times"-the different qualities of temporality arising from war. She considers the persistence of precolonial and colonial figures of sovereignty re-elaborated in the context of war, and the circulation of rumors and neologisms that freeze in time collective anxieties linked to particular phases of the conflict (or "chronotopes"). Beyond the expected traumas of war, Ferme explores the breaks in the intergenerational transmission of farming and hunting techniques, and the lethal effects of remembering experienced traumas and forgetting local knowledge. In the context of massive population displacements and humanitarian interventions, this ethnography traces strategies of survival and material dwelling, and the juridical creation of new figures of victimhood, where colonial and postcolonial legacies are reinscribed in neoliberal projects of decentralization and individuation.

War --- Psychological aspects. --- Sierra Leone --- History --- anthropology. --- anxiety. --- civil war. --- conflict. --- culture. --- displacement. --- ethnographic research. --- ethnography. --- farming. --- humanitarian. --- hunting. --- intergenerational trauma. --- neoliberal. --- political imagination. --- politics. --- population displacement. --- post colonial. --- postcolonial legacies. --- precolonial. --- psychology. --- shared experience. --- shared trauma. --- sierra leone. --- social. --- sovereignty. --- trauma. --- victimhood. --- violence. --- war. --- wartime.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

What was the life of a cow in early modern England like? What would it be like to milk that same cow, day-in, day-out, for over a decade? How did people feel about and toward the animals that they worked with, tended, and often killed? With these questions, Erica Fudge begins her investigation into a lost aspect of early modern life: the importance of the day-to-day relationships between humans and the animals with whom they worked. Such animals are and always have been, Fudge reminds us, more than simply stock; they are sentient beings with whom one must negotiate. It is the nature, meaning, and value of these negotiations that this study attempts to recover.By focusing on interactions between people and their livestock, Quick Cattle and Dying Wishes restores animals to the central place they once had in the domestic worlds of early modern England. In addition, the book uses human relationships with animals-as revealed through agricultural manuals, literary sources, and a unique dataset of over four thousand wills-to rethink what quick cattle meant to a predominantly rural population and how relationships with them changed as more and more people moved to the city. Offering a fuller understanding of both human and animal life in this period, Fudge innovatively expands the scope of early modern studies and how we think about the role that animals played in past cultures more broadly.

Wills --- Domestic animals --- Human-animal relationships --- Animal-human relationships --- Animal-man relationships --- Animals and humans --- Human beings and animals --- Man-animal relationships --- Relationships, Human-animal --- Animals --- Animal husbandry --- Barnyard animals --- Beasts --- Domesticated animals --- Farm animals --- Zoology, Economic --- Domestication --- Feral animals --- Codicils --- Inheritance and succession --- Legal instruments --- Registers of births, etc. --- Legacies --- Probate records --- Remainders (Estates) --- History --- Law and legislation --- England --- Social life and customs --- living and working with animals, early modern life, negotiated interaction with livestock, impact of urbanization on human-animal relations, immaterial meaning of the natural world.