Seventeenth-century England was a country obsessed with property rights. For only those who owned property were considered to have a vested interest in the main

Early modern England's system of patrilineal inheritance, in which the eldest son inherited his father's estate and title, was one of the most significant force

This volume explores familial wealth arrangements and gendered property from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries in Italian, German and Austrian territor

The volume Planning for Death: Wills and Death-Related Property Arrangements in Europe, 1200-1600 analyses death-related property transfers in several European

Exploration of manuscript records and civil law sources to provide a fuller account of the history of the legal profession in England.