Tabla de Contenidos: “…The marital economy in comparative perspective / Amy Louise Erickson -- Marriage or money? : legal actions for enforcement of marriage contracts in Norway / Hanne Marie Johansen -- Making marriages in early modern England : rethinking the role of family and friends / Catherine Frances -- Forming the partnership socially and economically : a Swedish local elite, 1650-1770 / Gudrun Andersson -- Forming the marital economy in the early modern Finnish countryside / Anu Pylkkänen -- Servants in rural England c.1450-1650 : hired work as a means of accumulating wealth and skills before marriage / Jane Whittle -- Decision-making on marital property in Norway, 1500-1800 / Hilde Sandvik -- Property and authority in Danish marital law / Inger Dübeck -- Marital conflict over the gender division of labour in agrarian households, Sweden, 1750-1850 / Rosemarie Fiebranz -- Working together? …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction / Louise Gullifer and Dora Neo -- Lost in transplantation? …”