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LAZĂR (Editor) Arrangements before the “Great Passage” Testamentary Practices and their Implications (Western Europe and the Romanian Lands, 16th-19th Century) 1st Edition 2023. 452 pages. € 64,00. |
CONTENTS
Foreword
Part
1
Testamentary Norms and Practices in Western
Europe
Remettre son âme à Dieu et ses biens
à ses héritiers. Cadre, forme et contenu
des testaments en France aux XVIIe
et XVIIIe siècles.
Stéphane CASTELLUCCIO
Des testaments parisiens
dans la tourmente révolutionnaire: entre continuités,
non-dits et révélations.
Natacha COQUERY
Notables genevois et leurs
testaments (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles)
Alexandru-Florin PLATON
Part
2
The Elites and their Inheritance Strategies
Testaments princiers (Moldavie, XVIe-XVIIe siècles).
Stefan S. GOROVEI
Inventories of Assets in
Wills from Medieval and Early Modern Banat.
Adrian MAGINA
Contributions to the History of the Bals Family
in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (Testaments and Dowry Papers)
Petronel ZAHARIUC
A Family Quarrel in Eighteenth-Century Moldavia
Mihai-Bogdan ATANASIU
On the Legacy of the Lochmann Family
Sorin GRIGORUTA
Part
3
Ladies of Yesterday and their Wills
Women and their Legal and Social Status in
Early Modern Moldavia
Elena BEDREAG
Dispositions for the "Soul and Heirs"
in the Testaments of Ladies from the Filipescu Family
(Eighteenth Century)
Mariana LAZAR
Le testament de Smaranda
(Serafimea) Gane (1826)
Catalina CHELCU
To Set a Nation on the Road
of Progress and Civilization. From the Last Wishes
of a Merchant Widow: Safta Castrisiu
and Investment in Rural Education in Nineteenth-Century Rural Wallachia
Nicoleta ROMAN
BIONOTES of the Editor and the Contributors
Amidst growth in the history of mentalities – a developing
research trend in Western historiography from the 1960s – there has been a
greater interest in interrogating various types of historical sources, among
which are testaments. Consequently, interdisciplinary analysis of this
particular category of documents ‒ that Roger Aubenas
called "une source historique
prometteuse" ‒ with corroboration from
information provided by other such sources, could undoubtedly offer new
perspectives for a better understanding of family history, private life,
mentalities, religious beliefs and behaviours,
individual and collective attitudes and sensibilities, in earlier and more
recent times.
The present volume addresses this need and comprises
15 of the 27 papers presented during the conference in the autumn of last year
at the "Nicolae Iorga"
History Institute. The event was organized within a research project funded by
the UEFISCDI and was attended by specialists from Romania and abroad (France,
Greece, Bulgaria, and Italy). All these studies – aside from their length and
methodology – have a common topic: the complex testamentary practices in
Western Europe (France and Switzerland) and in the North-Danubian
space. The topics include the testators' interest in the post-mortem destiny of
the soul and the perpetuation of their memory, the various strategies used to
preserve the family patrimony, and the unavoidable
family conflicts when descendants challenged decisions over family wealth,
primarily when the deceased did not consider, or time did not allow it, to
draft a will.
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