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THE MARITAL ECONOMY IN SCANDINAVIA AND BRITAIN 14001900

This volume explores the meaning and importance of marriage in Northern Europe, looking at differences and similarities within and between Scandinavia and the British Isles.

The point of departure is the concept of marital economy. It is used to denote the economic partnership of husband and wife, which was the basis of all economic activities in the medieval and early modern period. The book employs a life-course approach, discussing in 13 different empirical studies (i) creating the partnership, (ii) managing the partnership, and (iii) dissolving the partnership. The studies discuss courtship, servants work, elite strategies, retirement, inheritance, wills, marital disputes, decision-making, divorce, separation, and various forms of property arrangements. The introduction emphasises the marital economy as a key to understanding pre-modern economic life, and the conclusion discusses the reasons why this key has been lost to modern conceptions of economy.

Keywords: marital economy, marriage, inheritance, negotiation, work, property, comparison, medieval, early modern, England, Scotland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland.

Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

Series Editors: Allyson Poska and Abby Zanger

In the past decade, the study of women and gender has offered some of the most vital and innovative challenges to scholarship on the early modern period. Ashgates new series of interdisciplinary and comparative studies, Women and Gender in the Early Modern World, takes up this challenge, reaching beyond geographical limitations to explore the experiences of early modern women and the nature of gender in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Submissions of single-author studies and edited collections will be considered.

Titles in the series include:

Gender, Society and Print Culture in Late Stuart England The Cultural World of the Athenian Mercury
Helen Berry

Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England
Douglas A. Brooks

Publishing Womens Life Stories in France, 16471720
Elizabeth C. Goldsmith

Maternal Measures: Figuring Caregiving in the Early Modern Period
Edited by Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh

Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
Allison Levy

Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe
Helen Hills

The Marital Economy in Scandinavia and Britain 14001900

Edited by

MARIA GREN, Uppsala University
and
AMY LOUISE ERICKSON, Institute of Historical Research, University of London

First published 2005 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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Maria gren and Amy Louise Erickson, 2005

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopied, recorded, or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher.

Maria gren and Amy Louise Erickson have asserted their moral right under the Copyright, Design and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

The marital economy in Scandinavia and Britain 14001900. (Women and gender in the early modern world)
1. Marriage Economic aspects Great Britain History 2. Marriage Economic aspects Scandinavia History 3. Marital property Great Britain History 4. Marital property Scandinavia History 5. Marriage Great Britain History 6. Marriage Scandinavia History 7. Great Britain Social conditions 8. Scandinavia Social conditions I. gren, Maria II. Erickson, Amy Louise
306.81094

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The marital economy in Scandinavia and Britain, 14001900/edited by Maria gren and Amy Louise Erickson
p. cm. (Women and gender in the early modern world)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7546-3781-6 hardback, ISBN 0-7546-3782-4 paperback (alk. paper)
1. Marriage Economic aspects Scandinavia. 2. Marriage Economic aspects Great Britain.
I. Egren, Maria. II. Erickson, Amy Louise. III. Series.

HQ734.M34198 2004
306.810941dc22 2004003903

ISBN 0 7546 3781 6 hbk ISBN 0 7546 3782 4 pbk

Typeset in Times New Roman by D C Graphic Design Ltd, Swanley, Kent

Contents

Amy Louise Erickson

Hanne Marie Johansen

Catherine Frances

Gudrun Andersson

Anu Pylkknen

Jane Whittle

Hilde Sandvik

Inger Dbeck

Rosemarie Fiebranz

Ann-Catrin stman

Hanne Marie Johansen

Elizabeth Ewan

Agnes S. Arnrsdttir

Maria gren

Michael Roberts

For contributors publications, see

Maria gren
Professor in History, Uppsala University, Sweden

Gudrun Andersson
Assistant Professor in History, Uppsala University, Sweden

Agnes S. Arnrsdttir
Associate Professor in History, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Inger Dbeck
Professor in Law, dr. juris, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Amy Louise Erickson
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK

Elizabeth Ewan
Professor in History, University of Guelph, Canada

Rosemarie Fiebranz
PhD in History, Uppsala University, Sweden

Catherine Frances
sometime Research Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge, UK

Hanne Marie Johansen
Associate Professor in History, University of Bergen, Norway

Ann-Catrin stman
Research Fellow in History, University of bo, Finland

Anu Pylkknen
Academy Research Fellow, University of Helsinki, Finland

Michael Roberts
Lecturer in History, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

Hilde Sandvik
Associate Professor in History, University of Oslo, Norway

Jane Whittle
Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History, Exeter University, UK

We should like to acknowledge gratefully the role of the Swedish Research Council (SRC) in the creation of this volume. The project was inspired by conversations between Maria gren and Amy Erickson, when the latter was Kerstin Hesselgren Visiting Research Professor in the History Department at the University of Uppsala in 19992000, a post funded by the SRC. The SRC then met the costs of two conferences of the contributors, held in Sweden in 2000 and 2001. This has been a supremely cooperative endeavour throughout. The SRC then made a further grant towards editing and publishing this volume. Our sincere thanks go to the SRC for supporting this project so generously.

Abstract

Marriage today is our prime social and legal institution. Historically, it was also the principal economic institution. This collection of essays offers a wealth of original research into the economic, social and legal history of the marital partnership in northern Europe over a 500-year period. Ericksons introduction explores the concept of the marital economy and sketches the legal and economic background across the region. Chapters by gren, Gudrun Andersson, Agnes Arnrsdttir, Inger Dbeck, Elizabeth Ewan, Rosemarie Fiebranz, Catherine Frances, Hanne Johansen, Ann-Catrin stman, Anu Pylkknen, Hilde Sandvik and Jane Whittle are organized according to the three economic stages of the marital life-cycle: Forming the Partnership; Managing the Partnership; and Dissolving the Partnership. In conclusion, Michael Roberts explores how the historical development of modern economic theory has removed marriage from its central position at the heart of the economy.

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