P. GUGLIELMOTTI

The article opens with a brief consideration on how wills constitute a project that does not necessarily transform into concrete reality, and a survey of past scholarship on Genoa which has already noticed the tendency to follow the male line in patrimonial transmission. The methodological issues in tackling this type of documents when...

The article examines seven petitions made to the Commune of Genoa by as many wives and their legal agents in 1297. The women were claiming immediate return of their dowries, since their spouses had been banished from the city during an outburst of violent factional conflict. Law and government ensured that the dotal fund was safeguarded...

Non-dotal assets can be defined as those different kinds of goods which should be managed directly by married women. The extrados, an institution which was relatively unregulated and attested already in the second half of the twelfth century – much earlier than in other contexts –, can be found in practically all social classes and in the...

Before the end of the thirteenth century, the two Ligurian female monasteries attested in the extant documentation show, albeit in different ways, the influence that the nuns' natal families tended to exert on the two monastic communities. This influence was absorbed in a system of apparently peaceful balance between Genoese nuns and nuns of...

Between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, women from several Ligurian aristocratic families appear to have been engaged, according to the documentation relative mostly to the urban context, almost only in the devolution of family property. These women eventually had to contribute to the management of the inevitable political decline of...

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