Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Preface: The Ambivalence of Inheritance
- Introduction: Of Inheritance and Kinship
- 1 Family and Inheritance
- 2 Florentine Laws Regulating Inheritance and Repudiation
- 3 Repudiation and Inheritance
- 4 Profile of Florentine Repudiation and Inheritance
- 5 Repudiations and Household Wealth
- 6 Repudiation as an Inheritance Practice
- 7 Repudiations in Dispute
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
- Appendix 4
- Appendix 5
- Appendix 6
- Sources and Abbreviations
- Index
4 - Profile of Florentine Repudiation and Inheritance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Preface: The Ambivalence of Inheritance
- Introduction: Of Inheritance and Kinship
- 1 Family and Inheritance
- 2 Florentine Laws Regulating Inheritance and Repudiation
- 3 Repudiation and Inheritance
- 4 Profile of Florentine Repudiation and Inheritance
- 5 Repudiations and Household Wealth
- 6 Repudiation as an Inheritance Practice
- 7 Repudiations in Dispute
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
- Appendix 4
- Appendix 5
- Appendix 6
- Sources and Abbreviations
- Index
Summary
The surviving registry of repudiations for the republican period (to early 1534) is the central source for this study. The registry provides data from which to recover a chronological overview of repudiation activity; the relationships between repudiator and repudiated, including the shifting incidence of females in each category; and the frequency of repudiations by Florentines and other Tuscans subject to Florence. The registry also provides some basis to discuss whether repudiations concerned all or only part of an estate, were consequent on intestacy or testamentary succession, and how much these factors varied by wealth and status (namely place of residence and possession, or not, of a family cognomen).
The Registry and Its Data
Florence's registry of repudiations consists of twenty-nine volumes, two of which are in fact indexes to some of the others. The twenty-seven effective volumes cover the period from 8 August 1365 to the final registered repudiation on 20 February 1534, during which a total of 11,317 repudiations of inheritance were recorded. As the legislation establishing the registry of repudiations was passed fully ten years before the first surviving record (10 July 1355), I presume that the first ten years were lost. The somewhat haphazard state of the first couple of surviving volumes supports this presumption.
Repudiations are also not the only matters recorded in these pages. Satisdations of new citizens crop up repeatedly in the first volume and thereafter once in a while for several more volumes.
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- Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence , pp. 112 - 135Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008