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Donations, Inheritance and Property in the Nordic and Western World from Late Antiquity until Today
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Donations, Inheritance and Property in the Nordic and Western World from Late Antiquity until Today presents an examination of Nordic donation and gift-giving practices in the Nordic and Western world, beginning in late Antiquity and extending through to the present day. Through chapters contributed by leading international researchers, this book explores the changing legal, social and religious frameworks that shape how donations and gifts are given.

In addition to donations to ecclesiastical, charitable and cultural institutions, this books also highlights the sociolegal challenges and the tensions that can occur as a result of transferring property, including answering key questions such as who has a right to what. It also presents, for the first time, an insight into the dynamics of donations and the interplay between individual motivations, strategic behaviour and the legal setting of inheritance law.

Offering a broad chronological and European perspective and including a wide range of illuminating case studies Donations, Inheritance and Property in the Nordic and Western World from Late Antiquity until Today is ideal for students of Nordic and European legal and social history.

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Donations, Inheritance and Property in the Nordic and Western World from Late Antiquity until Today

Donations, Inheritance and Property in the Nordic and Western World from Late Antiquity until Today presents an examination of Nordic donation and gift-giving practices in the Nordic and Western world, beginning in late Antiquity and extending through to the present day. Through chapters contributed by leading international researchers, this book explores the changing legal, social and religious frameworks that shape how donations and gifts are given.

In addition to donations to ecclesiastical, charitable and cultural institutions, this book also highlights the sociolegal challenges and the tensions that can occur as a result of transferring property, including answering key questions such as who has a right to what. It also presents, for the first time, an insight into the dynamics of donations and the interplay between individual motivations, strategic behaviour and the legal setting of inheritance law.

Offering a broad chronological and European perspective and including a wide range of illuminating case studies, Donations, Inheritance and Property in the Nordic and Western World from Late Antiquity until Today is ideal for students of Nordic and European legal and social history.

Ole-Albert Rnning is a historian and PhD candidate at the University of Oslo, Norway, studying oaths of compurgation in medieval Norwegian law and society, in a comparative perspective.

Helle Mller Sigh is a curator at the Strandingsmuseum St. George, Thorsminde, Denmark.

Helle Vogt is an associate professor at the Centre for Studies in Legal Culture at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her previous publications include The Danish Medieval Laws: The laws of Scania, Zealand and Jutland (2016).

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Agnes S. Arnrsdttir is Associate Professor of Medieval History at the Department of History at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her main research interests are marriage in medieval and early modern times, as well as memory in medieval Nordic culture. Her main publications are Property and Virginity: The Christianization of Marriage in Medieval Iceland 12001600 and (ed.) Minni and Muninn: Memory in Medieval Nordic Culture.

John Asland is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway. His main fields of research are family law and the law of succession, and he is the author and co-author of several books on these topics. He was temporarily appointed appellate court judge during 20082010, and he served as secretary of the Inheritance Act Commission during 20112014. He is also Professor II at Lillehammer University College and co-editor of Norways leading journal on family law. He was awarded the Kings gold medal for his PhD thesis in 2009. Asland was fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Oslo 20142015.

Peter Wessel Hansen is an archivist at Copenhagen City Archives, Denmark. His research interests are the cultural history of social groups, social stratification in urban areas, poor relief, private charity and everyday almsgiving in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His main publications about these areas include Hidden Poverty: The middle class poor in Copenhagen 17501850 (PhD thesis, 2013), Honourable dwellings Almshouses as estate-consistent charity in Copenhagen, c.17001850 (Scandinavian Economic History Review, 62/1, 2014) and Grief, sickness and emotions in the narratives of the shamefaced poor in late eighteenth-century Copenhagen (in Gestrich et al. eds., Poverty and Sickness in Modern Europe: Narratives of the Sick Poor, 17801938, Bloomsbury, 2012).

Caroline Humfress is Professor of Mediaeval History at the University of St Andrews, UK. Her research interests focus on law, religion and intellectual history. She has published widely on the history of Late Antiquity (c.200c.600AD). She has also published on the history of empires, recently co-editing the volume Law and Empire: Ideas, Practices, Actors (2013) in addition to researching early Christian history and ecclesiastical law.

Martin Wangsgaard Jrgensen, doctor of theology, is an editor at the publication Danmarks Kirker (

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