Korpiola (legal history, University of Helsinki) has researched the marriage customs in Sweden from the thirteenth century to the beginning of the seventeenth. The impact of developing Christian doctr
?This book analyses the legal literacy, knowledge and skills of people in premodern and modernizing Europe. It examines how laymen belonging both to the common people and the elite acquired legal know
Historians and legal scholars explore differences in marriage across Europe, with a particular emphasis on tension between local customs and canon law and how that tension was resolved in particular r
Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe offers an analysis of the various ways in which people made preparations for death in medieval and early modern Northern Europe.
Planning for Death: Wills and Death-Related Property Arrangements in Europe, 1200-1600 analyses death-related property transfers in several late medieval and European regions (England, Poland, Italy,
