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Based on extensive research in this archive, this book reveals how these documents were produced in a centuries-long effort to regulate --and ultimately to redefine-- property and gender relations. At the center of the transformation was a shift from a marital property regime based on custom to one based on contract. In the former, a widow typically inherited her husband's property; in the latter, she shared it with or simply held it for his family or offspring. Howell asks why the law changed as it did and assesses the law's effects on both social and gender meanings but she insists that the reform did not originate in general dissatisfaction with custom or a desire to disempower widows. Instead, it was born in a complex economic, social and cultural history during which Douaisiens gradually came to think about both property and gender in new ways. Medieval Douai was one of the wealthiest cloth towns of Flanders, and it left an enormous archive documenting the personal financial affairs of its citizens --wills, marriage agreements, business contracts, and records of court disputes over property rights of all kinds.

History of the Low Countries --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1300-1399 --- Droit médiéval --- Law [Medieval ] --- Medieval law --- Middeleeuws recht --- Recht [Middeleeuws ] --- Husband and wife --- Marital property --- Law, Medieval --- History --- History. --- Law, Medieval. --- #VCV monografie 1999 --- Droit médiéval --- anno 500-1499 --- France --- Matrimonial property --- Property, Marital --- Property --- Man and wife --- Matrimonial regime --- Spouses --- Wife and husband --- Domestic relations --- Women --- Desertion and non-support --- Marriage law --- Married women --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Flanders (County) --- Douai (France) --- Marital property - Flanders - History --- Husband and wife - Flanders - History --- Marital property - France - Douai - History --- Husband and wife - France - Douai - History --- HUWELIJKSLEVEN -- 930.347 --- MIDDELEEUWEN -- 930.347 --- MODERNE TIJDEN -- 930.347 --- HUWELIJKSLEVEN -- 930.348 --- MIDDELEEUWEN -- 930.348 --- MODERNE TIJDEN -- 930.348 --- MODERNE TIJDEN -- 930.32 --- Marriage --- Matrimonial law --- Book --- Property rights --- Inheritance law

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This volume examines the politics of space in the most densely urbanized areas of Europe during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. It ranges from Italy to the Parisian region and then to the greater Low Countries, home of Europe’s most powerful commercial cities of the period. Hardly inert sites on which political action took place, the spaces these authors investigate conferred power on those who possessed them. At the same time they were themselves transformed by the struggles, thus acquiring new powers that invited future contest. Thus implicitly responding to Georges Lefebvre’s claim that space is “produced”, the authors ask how space was perceived and used in everyday life, giving specific spaces cultural, social, and political coherence (“le perçu”); how it was represented or theorized, thus encoded in symbols, maps and laws (“le conçu”); and how it was lived, in effect the result of the dialectical relation between the perceived and the represented (“le vécu”).

History of Europe --- anno 1100-1199 --- anno 1200-1799 --- France: North --- Belgium --- Netherlands --- Italy --- Cities and towns, Medieval --- Middle Ages --- Villes médiévales --- Moyen Age --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Villes --- Sociologie urbaine --- Géographie urbaine --- Aspect social --- Actes de congrès --- Villes médiévales --- Congrès --- Cities and towns --- History --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- France [Northern ] --- Benelux countries --- Geschiedenis van Europa --- Frankrijk: Noord --- Italië --- Nederland --- België --- Actes de congrès. --- City planning --- Urbanization --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban renewal --- Growth, Urban --- Sprawl, Urban --- Urban growth --- Urban sprawl --- Migration, Internal --- Population --- Vital statistics --- Growth --- Government policy --- Management

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Medieval Douai was one of the wealthiest cloth towns of Flanders, and it left an enormous archive documenting the personal financial affairs of its citizens-wills, marriage agreements, business contracts, and records of court disputes over property rights of all kinds. Based on extensive research in this archive, this book reveals how these documents were produced in a centuries-long effort to regulate-and ultimately to redefine-property and gender relations. At the center of the transformation was a shift from a marital property regime based on custom to one based on contract. In the former, a widow typically inherited her husband's property; in the latter, she shared it with or simply held it for his family or offspring. Howell asks why the law changed as it did and assesses the law's effects on both social and gender meanings but she insists that the reform did not originate in general dissatisfaction with custom or a desire to disempower widows. Instead, it was born in a complex economic, social and cultural history during which Douaisiens gradually came to think about both property and gender in new ways.

Husband and wife --- Law, Medieval. --- Marital property --- Matrimonial property --- Property, Marital --- Property --- Medieval law --- Man and wife --- Matrimonial regime --- Spouses --- Wife and husband --- Domestic relations --- Women --- Desertion and non-support --- Marriage law --- Married women --- History. --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- HUWELIJKSLEVEN -- 930.347 --- MIDDELEEUWEN -- 930.347 --- MODERNE TIJDEN -- 930.347 --- HUWELIJKSLEVEN -- 930.348 --- MIDDELEEUWEN -- 930.348 --- MODERNE TIJDEN -- 930.348 --- MODERNE TIJDEN -- 930.32 --- low countries, gender, marriage, courtship, alliance, social status, mobility, property, wealth, medieval, flanders, douai, cloth, textiles, wills, contracts, business, widows, inheritance, heirs, trust, custom, tradition, offspring, le libert v rohard, law, legislation, courts, reform, nonfiction, history, women, wife, court disputes, douaire coutumier.