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

1. Christian Influence on Modern Family Law
Mathias Schmoeckel

2. The Catalan Sagrada Família: Law and Family in Medieval and Modern Catalonia
Tünde Mikes, Tomàs Montagut

3. Adoption Between Ancien Régime and Codification: Is It in Remission in a Changing World?
Maria Gigliola Renzo Villata

4. A Consilium of Torello Di Niccolò Torelli of Prato on Dos Aestimata

Julius Kirshner

5. Property of Spouses in Law in Renaissance Florence
Thomas Kuehn

6. The English Law of Marriage and the Family (1500–1640)
R. H. Helmholz

7. Towards a New Era of Modernity? Late Scholastic Speculation on Bigamy and Polygamy
Stefania T. Salvi

8. The Father’s Right to Kill His Adulterous Daughter in the Late Ius Commune

Andrea Massironi

9.
Duæ Animæ in Una Carne. The Disqualification of the Spouses in Common Law

Yves Mausen

10. Fathers by Law, Fathers by Choice. Paternity and Illegitimacy Between Ancien Régime and Codification in Western Countries
Chiara Valsecchi

11. Honour and Guilt. A Comparative Study on Regulations on Infanticide Between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
Loredana Garlati

12. Children of a Lesser God. The Legalized Exploitation of Child Labour as Revealed by the Liberal Era Judicial Record (Late 19th—Early 20th Century)
Filippo Rossi

13. What Can We Learn from a Family Law Course? The Teachings of an Early 20th Century Italian Professor
Annamaria Monti

14. Torts of Minor Children and Parental Civil Liability: Cases in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Italy
Giovanni Chiodi

Avainsanat: Law, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Criminology & Criminal Justice, European Law, History of Early Modern Europe