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"This book studies family life and gender broadly within Italy, not just one region or city, from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Paternal control of the household was paramount in Italian life at this time, with control of property and even marital choices and career paths laid out for children and carried out from beyond the grave by means of written testaments. However, the reality was always more complex than a simple reading of local laws and legal doctrines would seem to permit, especially when there were no sons to step forward as heirs. Family disputes provided an opening for legal ambiguities to redirect property and endow women with property and means of control. This book uses the decisions of lawyers and judges to examine family dynamics through the lens of law and legal disputes"--

This study, based on Florentine repudiations of inheritance, reveals that inheritance was not simply an automatic process where the recipients were passive, if grateful. In influential European societies of the past, it was in fact a process that continued long after the deceased's death. Heirs also had options: at the least, to reject a burdensome patrimony, but also to manoeuvre property to others and to avoid (at times deceptively, if not fraudulently) the claims of others to portions of the estate. Repudiation was a vestige of Roman law that once again became a viable legal institution with the revival of Roman law in the Middle Ages. Florentines incorporated repudiation into their strategies of adjustment after death, showing that they were not merely passive recipients of what came their way. Further, these strategies fostered family goals, including continuity across the generations

Les historiens ont traité l'exclusion au droit de succession des femmes dotées dans leurs familles natales comme une constante ambiguë du système de transmission agnatique des biens pendant la Renaissance. L'analyse de statuts et de cinq cas florentins révèle cependant que le sens et l'opération de l'héritage des femmes et par les femmes n'étaient pas toujours précis et pouvaient changer. La succession de biens par les femmes était assez fréquente pour provoquer des problèmes gênants concernant les droits des agnats mâles à leur exclusion. L'interprétation juridique de ces problémes, quoique peu uniforme, a contribué à protéger les droits des femmes grâce à une application stricte des statuts et à des études étendues du droit civil.

Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --Introduction: The Agenda For Science And Technology Policy --Part I. The Social Context Of Science And Technology --A. The Society --1 . Technology, Evolution, And Purpose Harvey Brooks /Brooks, Harvey --2. How Technology Will Shape The Future /Mesthene, Emmanuel G. --3. The Artificial Environment: Disneyland Is Better /Roszak, Theodore --B. The Polity --4. The Spectrum From Truth To Power /Price, Don K. --5. The Scientist And The Politician /Revelle, Roger --C. The Economy --6. The National Climate For Technological Innovation /Schon, Donald --7. Trends In U.S. Technology: A Political Economist's View /Boretsky, Michael --D. World Affairs --8. Military Research And Development: A Postwar History /Greb, G. Allen / York, Herbert F. --9. The Transfer Of Technology To Underdeveloped Countries /Myrdal, Gunnar --10. The International Functional Implications Of Future Technology /Skolnikoff, Eugene B. --Part II. Science, Technology, And American Government --E. The Federal Executive --11. Organization For Science And Technology In The Executive Branch --12. The Scientific Advisory System: Some Observations /Perl, Martin L. --13. Office Of Management And Budget: Skeptical View Of Scientific Advice /Culliton, Barbara / Walsh, John --F. The Congress --14. Congress And The Science Budget /Roback, Herbert --15. Scientists On The Hill /Casper, Barry M. --16. The Rhetoric And Reality Of Congressional Technology Assessment /Casper, Barry M. --G. The Courts --17. Towards A New Technological Ethic: The Role Of Legal Liability /Tribe, Laurence H. --18. Risk And Responsibility /Bazelon, David L. --H. State And Local Government --19. Science Policy In American State Government /Sapolsky, Harvey M. --20. Federal Technology Policy: Innovation And Problem Solving In State And Local Governments /Roessner, J. David --I. Citizen Participation --21. Participatory Technology /Carroll, James D. --22. Information And The New Movements For Citizen Participation /Henderson, Hazel --J. Public Choice --23. Technology Assessment And Social Control /Baram, Michael S. --24. The Politics Of Technology Assessment /Berg, Mark R. --25. Science And The Formation Of Policy In A Democracy /MacRae Jr, Duncan --Annotated Bibliography --Index