TY  - BOOK
AU  - Howell,Martha C.
TI  - The marriage exchange: property, social place, and gender in cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1550 
T2  - Women in culture and society
SN  - 9780226355177 (electronic bk.)
AV  - KJC1162 .H69 1998eb
U1  - 346.44/280166 22
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Marital property
KW  - Flanders
KW  - History
KW  - Husband and wife
KW  - France
KW  - Douai
KW  - Law, Medieval
KW  - Biens communs
KW  - Belgique
KW  - Flandre
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Époux
KW  - Droit médiéval
KW  - LAW
KW  - Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Huwelijksgoederenrecht
KW  - gtt
KW  - Vrouwen
KW  - Sociale aspecten
KW  - 14e siècle
KW  - rasuqam
KW  - 15e siècle
KW  - Femme
KW  - Histoire sociale
KW  - Contrat de mariage
KW  - Patrimoine familial
KW  - Régime matrimonial
KW  - Relation homme-femme
KW  - Douai (France)
KW  - საოჯახო სამართალი
KW  - ევროპა
KW  - ისტორია 1300-1550 წწ
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; CONTENTS; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Note on Money, Dates, and Names; Introduction -- Le Libert v. Rohard; Chapter 1 -- From Custom to Contract; Chapter 2 -- The Social Context of Custom; Chapter 3 -- Legal Reform as Social Engineering; Chapter 4 -- The Social Logic -- and Illogic -- of Custom; Chapter 5 -- An Alternative Logic; Chapter 6 -- Living with the New; Chapter 7 -- The Weight of Experience; Chapter 8 -- The Douaisien Reform in Historical Context; Conclusion -- Marie, Franchoise, and Their Sisters; Appendix A -- The Evolution of Douai's Douaire Coutumier
N2  - 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
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