Family Law and Society in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era [Hardcover]

This volume addresses the study of family law and society in Europe, from medieval to contemporary ages. It examines the topic from a legal and social point of view. Furthermore, it investigates those aspects of the new family legal history that have not commonly been examined in depth by legal historians.

The volume provides a new 'global' interpretative key of the development of family law in Europe. It presents essays about family and the Christian influence, family and criminal law, family and civil liability, filiation (legitimate, natural and adopted children), and family and children labour law. In addition, it explores specific topics related to marriage, such as the matrimonial property regime from a European comparative perspective, and impediments to marriage, such as bigamy. The book also addresses topics including family, society and European juridical science.

Introduction (Maria Gigliola di Renzo Villata).- Chapter 1. Christian Influence on Modern Family Law (Mathias Schmoeckel).- Chapter 2. The Catalan Sagrada Fam?lia: Law and Family in Medieval and Modern Catalonia (T?nde Mikes, Tom?s de Montagut).- Chapter 3. Adoption Between Ancient R?gime and Codification is it in Decline in a Changing World? (Maria Gigliola di Renzo Villata).- Chapter 4. A Consilium of Torello di Niccol? Torelli of Prato on Dos Aestimata (Julius Kirshner).- Chapter 5. Property of Spouses in Law in Renaissance Florence (Thomas Kuehn).- Chapter 6. The English Law of Marriage and the Family (1500-1640) (R. H. Helmholz).- Chapter 7. Towards a New Era of Modernity? Late Scholastic Speculation on Bigamy and Polygamy (Stefania T. Salvi).- Chapter 8. The Fathers Right to Kill His Adulterous Daughter in the Late Ius Commune (Andrea Massironi).- Chapter 9. Du? anim? in una carne. The disqualification of the spouses in common law. (Yves Mausen).- Chapter 10. Fathers by Law, Fathers by Choice. Paternity and Bastardy Between Ancient Rlq