Repudiation of Inheritance in Renaissance Florence

FAIN: FB-38247-03

Thomas J. Kuehn
Clemson University (Clemson, SC 29634-0001)

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Media Coverage

Clemson Professors Win Awards (Media Coverage)
Publication: Greenville News
Date: 3/23/2003

Clemson Professor's Book Honored (Media Coverage)
Publication: Anderson Independent
Date: 1/7/2010
Abstract: Story based on university press release about book prize.

Associated Products

Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence (Book)
Title: Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence
Author: Thomas Kuehn
Abstract: Visions of modernity rest in part on a distinction between inherited status (past) and achievement (present). Inheritance is taken as automatic, if not axiomatic; the recipients are passive, if grateful. This study, based on a singular source (Florentine repudiations of inheritance), reveals that inheritance was in fact a process, that heirs had options; at the least, to reject a burdensome patrimony, but also to maneuver property to others and to avoid (at times deceptively, if not fraudulently) the claims of others to portions of the estate.
Year: 2008
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/heirs-kin-and-creditors-in-renaissance-florence/oclc/177022924&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat
Access Model: open
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780521882347

Prizes

Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize
Date: 1/8/2010
Organization: American Historical Association
Abstract: Annual prize for book in Italian history or Italian-American history.

Legislating and Evading: Florentine Laws and Practices Regarding Repudiation of Inheritance (Book Section)
Title: Legislating and Evading: Florentine Laws and Practices Regarding Repudiation of Inheritance
Author: Thomas Kuehn
Abstract: Conference presentation published in complete form.
Year: 2009
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/famiglie-e-poteri-in-italia-tra-medioevo-ed-eta-moderna/oclc/449489567&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat
Access Model: open
Publisher: Ecole Francaise de Rome
Book Title: Famiglie e poteri in Italia tra medioevo et eta moderna
ISBN: 9782728308453

Minding the "Fine Print": Lawyers, Legal Obligations, and Politics in Savonarolan Florence (Book Section)
Title: Minding the "Fine Print": Lawyers, Legal Obligations, and Politics in Savonarolan Florence
Author: Thomas Kuehn
Abstract: Contribution to festschrift
Year: 2009
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/from-florence-to-the-mediterranean-and-beyond-essays-in-honour-of-anthony-mohlo/oclc/422688315&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat
Access Model: open
Publisher: Olschki
Book Title: From Florence to the Mediterranean and Beyond
ISBN: 9788822258946

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