Brill Planning for Death: Wills and Death-Related Property Arrangements in Europe, 1200-1600: 23 (Medieval Law and Its Practice, 23)

Review "This volume recommends itself with its careful consideration of the ways law and practice interacted, as well as its attention to how gender influenced how law could be deployed to carry out final wishes. It is also valuable in bringing the legal system and practice of early modern Scandinavia to the fore of legal studies, which have often focused more on studies of England and France, broadening our understanding of early modern legal histories". Janine Lanza, in Renaissance Quarterly, Renaissance Quarterly, 73 (1), pp. 269-270. Product Description Planning for Death: Wills and Death-Related Property Arrangements in Europe, 1200-1600 analyses death-related property transfers in several late medieval and European regions (England, Poland, Italy, South Tirol, and Sweden). The book focuses especially on testamentary practice and matrimonial property rights. About the Author Mia Korpiola, LL.D. (2004), University of Helsinki, is Professor of Legal History at the University of Turku. She had authored and edited several books, including Regional Variations in Matrimonial Law and Custom in Europe, 1150-1600 (Brill, 2011). Anu Lahtinen, Ph.D. (2007), University of Turku, is Professor of Finnish and Nordic History at the University of Helsinki. She has published on medieval and early modern history, including Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe (Brill, 2017).