Thursday, 26 October 2023
13.30 Reception and registration
14.00 Welcome and introduction
14.30 – 19.00 Session 1: Gendered Perspectives on Urban Elites
Chair: Margareth Lanzinger
14.30 – 15.15 Anna Bellavitis (Rouen), Gender and Transmission at the Intersection of Anthropology, Legal History, Social History
15.15 – 16.00 Isabelle Chabot (Padova), “À rivoluto la sua dota e datone gran parte per Dio”: Extra Familial Devolution and Female Agency in 14th and 15th Century Florence
16.00 – 16.45 Heinrich Lang (Leipzig), ‘figlia unica e herede universale’: The Transfer of Family Property in the Case of the Florentine Patrician Costanza Serristori (16th century)
16.45 – 17.15 Coffee Break
17.15 – 18.15 Adina Eckart (Leipzig), Renaissance Noblewomen and Creating Legacy: How Lucrezia de’Medici Salviati passed on Wealth through her Family Ties
18.15 – 19.00 Federica Masè, Between Law and Individual Choices: Practices and Strategies for the Transmission of Earthly Goods in the Wills of Men and Women in Renaissance Venice
19.30 Dinner
Friday, 27 October 2023
9.00 – 11.15 Session 2: Nobel Heirs and Heiresses
Chair: Siglinde Clementi
9.00 – 9.45 Sven Dittmar (Mainz), More Sons than Property? Strategies of Wealth Transfer by Imperial Knight
9.45 – 10.30 Florian Andretsch (Wien), The Oldest Brother Divides, the Youngest Gets to Choose. Practising Noble Customs of Partible Inheritance in Upper Austria, ca. 1600
10.30 – 11.15 Claudia Rapberger (Wien), A Change of Perspective: Transfers of Assets and Property from the Perspective of a Supposedly Uninvolved
11.15 – 11.45 Coffee Break
11.45 – 13.15: Session 3: Succession in Discourses and as Strategies
11.45 – 12.30 Stefania Ferrando (Nice), Women’s Voices on Inheritance and Filiation. Olympe de Gouges and the Contestation of Inheritance Practices during the French Revolution
12.30 – 13.15 Marina Garbellotti (Verona), To Eternalize the Family Name. Succession Strategies in the Italian Peninsula of the Modern Age
13.15 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 16.00: Session 4: Inheritance in Colonial Contexts
Chair: Matthias Donabaum
14.30 – 15.15 Marion Röwekamp (Mexico City), From Patrilineality to the Marital Family. The Change in Married Women's Inheritance Law in Latin America in the 19th Century
15.15 – 16.00 Julia Bühner (Münster), The Legacy of the Conquerors – Memories and Claims of the Descendants of Castilian and Canarian Conquistadors in the 16th century
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.45 Session 5: Modes of Transfer in Rural Contexts
16.30 – 17.15 Susann Anett Pedersen (Trondheim), Mortgage Credit and Generational Transfer of Landed Property in Sixteenth Century Norway
17.15 – 18.00 Janine Maegraith (Wien/Cambridge), Als weichend Geschwistrigten. Financial Assets and Material Endowments for Ceding Heirs in Early Modern Tyrol
18.00 – 18.45 Siglinde Clementi / Margareth Lanzinger (Bozen/Wien), Women and Succession – Women as Heiresses
19.30 Dinner
Saturday, 28 October 2023
9.00 – 12.30 Session 6: Family Logics of Securing Wealth and Well-Being
Chair: Claudia Rapberger
9.00 – 9.45 Laura Casella/Serena Galasso (Udine/Glasgow), Bequeathing Papers to Pass on Goods and Knowledge. Tuscany and Friuli Compared from a Gender Perspective
9.45 – 10.30 Amelie Stuart / Lydia von der Weth (Jena/Erfurt), Faded Gold: Inheritances within families in Erfurt between 1700-1750
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
Chair: Florian Andretsch
11.00 – 11.45 Ellinor Forster (Innsbruck), „To have and to hold“: The Tyrolean Preu Family (1750–1830) and the Generational Management and Preservation of Wealth
11.45 – 12.30 Evdoxios Doxiadis (Vancouver), Donations in Late Ottoman Greece
12.30 – 12.50 Final Comment
12.50 – 13.15 Final Discussion