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

Chapter 1 Christian Influence on Modern Family Law

Chapter 2 The Catalan Sagrada Família: Law and Family in Medieval and Modern Catalonia

Chapter 3 Adoption Between Ancien Régime and Codification: Is It in Remission in a Changing World?

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

Chapter 5 Property of Spouses in Law in Renaissance Florence

Chapter 6 The English Law of Marriage and the Family (1500–1640)

Chapter 7 Towards a New Era of Modernity? Late Scholastic Speculation on Bigamy and Polygamy

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

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

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

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

Chapter 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)

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

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