chapter Introduction / Ole-Albert Rønning Helle Møller Sigh Helle Vogt
chapter 1 Gift-giving and inheritance strategies in late Roman law and legal practice 1 / Caroline Humfress
chapter 2 The jurisprudence of the forced share in the ancient world
Cicero to Justinian / Charles J. Reid
chapter 3 The jurisprudence of the forced share
The high and late Middle Ages / Charles J. Reid
chapter 4 Inheritance in the lands of the Loire, 1050-1200
A contrast to Nordic and Roman practice / Amy Livingstone
chapter 5 Protecting the individual, the kin and the soul
Donation regulations in Danish and Norwegian medieval legislation / Helle Vogt
chapter 6 By love and by law
Choices of female donors in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Sweden / Anu Lahtinen
chapter 7 Gender and donation culture in Iceland from 1300 to 1600 / Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir
chapter 8 Luther's last will and the invention of testamentary freedom / Mathias Schmoeckel
chapter 9 Pious donations
The act of giving in the Lutheran Church and its spatial implications / Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen
chapter 10 The business of charity and the charity of business
Donations in the Norwegian merchant town of Bergen in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde
chapter 11 "Immortal mother and benefactor"
Honorable dwellings for unmarried noblewomen and the dynamics of donations among the Danish elite from 1699 to 1745 / Helle Møller Sigh
chapter 12 The age of miracles? Alms culture and charitable donations in Copenhagen, c.1770-1830 / Peter Wessel Hansen
chapter 13 How to exchange with the dead
The significance of heirlooms in contemporary Danish inheritance practices / Bodil Selmer
chapter 14 Gifts to, from, and between spouses
Present regulation in the Nordic countries / John Asland.