Negotiations of gender and property through legal regimes (fourteenth-nineteenth century). Stipulating, litigating, mediating

Abstract

of insurance is by far the most important one. Whilst there is indeed not too much analysis of the law in this volume, that in itself also teaches us something important about the role of lawyers from the medieval period to the nineteenth century: whereas the development of insurance was a much-discussed topic from the sixteenth century onwards, mutual support schemes in contrast were not. This further strengthens the main conclusion of the volume, but also shows something about the priorities of lawyers across centuries.