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"This book studies family life and gender broadly within Italy, not just one region or city, from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Paternal control of the household was paramount in Italian life at this time, with control of property and even marital choices and career paths laid out for children and carried out from beyond the grave by means of written testaments. However, the reality was always more complex than a simple reading of local laws and legal doctrines would seem to permit, especially when there were no sons to step forward as heirs. Family disputes provided an opening for legal ambiguities to redirect property and endow women with property and means of control. This book uses the decisions of lawyers and judges to examine family dynamics through the lens of law and legal disputes"--

Domestic relations --- History --- Families --- Family law --- Marriage --- Persons (Law) --- Sex and law --- Law and legislation --- families [kinship groups] --- kinship --- sex role --- History of Italy --- Family law. Inheritance law --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1300-1399 --- anno 1500-1599 --- HISTORY --- Domestic relations. --- General. --- To 1599. --- Italy. --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- gender

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This study, based on Florentine repudiations of inheritance, reveals that inheritance was not simply an automatic process where the recipients were passive, if grateful. In influential European societies of the past, it was in fact a process that continued long after the deceased's death. Heirs also had options: at the least, to reject a burdensome patrimony, but also to manoeuvre property to others and to avoid (at times deceptively, if not fraudulently) the claims of others to portions of the estate. Repudiation was a vestige of Roman law that once again became a viable legal institution with the revival of Roman law in the Middle Ages. Florentines incorporated repudiation into their strategies of adjustment after death, showing that they were not merely passive recipients of what came their way. Further, these strategies fostered family goals, including continuity across the generations.

Inheritance and succession --- Renunciation of inheritance --- Renunciation (Law) --- Bequests --- Descent and distribution --- Descents --- Hereditary succession --- Intestacy --- Intestate succession --- Law of succession --- Succession, Intestate --- Real property --- Universal succession --- Trusts and trustees --- History. --- Law and legislation --- Florence (Italy) --- History --- Arts and Humanities

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Family was a central feature of social life in Italian cities. In the Renaissance, jurists, humanists, and moralists began to theorize on the relations between people and property that formed the 'substance' of the family and what held it together over the years. Family property was a bundle of shared rights. This was most evident when brothers shared a household and enterprise, but it also faced overlapping claims from children and wives which the paterfamilias had to recognize. Thomas Kuehn explores patrimony in legal thought, and how property was inherited, managed and shared in Renaissance Italy. Managing a patrimony was not a simple task. This led to a complex and active conceptualization of shared rights, and a conscious application of devices in the law that could override liabilities and preserve the group, or carve out distinct shares for each member. This wide-ranging volume charts the ever-present conflicts that arose and were a constant feature of family life.

Marital property. --- Bartolo, --- Albericus, --- Marital property --- Matrimonial property --- Property, Marital --- Husband and wife --- Property --- Law and legislation --- Alberic, --- Alberich, --- Alberico, --- Albericus de Rosate, --- Rosate, Albericus de, --- Rosciate, Alberico da, --- Alphanis, Bartolus Severus de, --- Bartholus, --- Bartole, --- Bartolus, --- Bartolus de Saxoferrato, --- Bartolus Severus de Alphanis, --- Sasferrato, Bartole da, --- Sassoferrato, Bartolo of, --- Saxo Ferrato, Bartholus de, --- Saxoferrato, Bartolus de, --- Inheritance and succession --- Fideicommissum --- Inventories of decedents' estates --- Wills --- History --- Soccini, Bartolommeo, --- Decio, Filippo,

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