Test 1 article arguments

Question 1

Rollo-Koster

Answer 1

Scarcity of men

Question 2

Wray

Answer 2

Scarcity of men
Wills: More appreciation for women and their roles
Forced adaption

Question 3

Frank

Answer 3

Access and got property
Recognized women’s abilities
Benefits from rise in Status - bend laws about women

Question 4

Guzzetti

Answer 4

Right to act in claims
Records: Testamentory executors for property disputes
Can’t sign notarial acts w/o signature of 2 men

Question 5

Brizio

Answer 5

Countryside women: create land contracts
Business: trade dowries
Quick to claim guardianship
Testament executors
Claimed tax reliefs that protected family

Question 6

Bellavitis

Answer 6

Artisan group - crafts, trades (solidarity, half/half)
Bourgeois (professions) - no inheritance/profession property to sons, dowries to daughters
Patrician - law makers/elite (dowry protected by wife’s family

Question 7

Grbavac

Answer 7

Property for charity - testaments (for eternal salvation)
Immovables: less freedom
Movables: more freedom
Widows had lots of freedom: got dowry back, controlled husband’s property
Married: controlled by husband
Unmarried: controlled by father

Question 8

Crljenko

Answer 8

less protected, no control over property
Venetian: unsuitable - just housewives
Istrian: Equal economic rights, wife gets half
- can’t dispose property w/o husband’s consent
Widows only as guardians

Question 9

Lightfoot

Answer 9

Dotal system and Germania system

Question 10

Sperling

Answer 10

No children, assets halfed

Husband dies: half goes to wife, 2/3rds go to children