Introduction / Ole-Albert Rønning, Hele Møller Sigh, and Helle Vogt
Gift-giving and inheritance strategies in late Roman law and legal practice / Caroline Humfress
The jurisprudence of the forced share in the ancient world : Cicero to Justinian / Charles J. Reid, Jr.
The jurisprudence of the forced share : the high and late Middle Ages / Charles J. Reid, Jr.
Inheritance in the lands of the Loire, 1050-1200 : a contrast to Nordic and Roman practice / Amy Livingstone
Protecting the individual, the kin and the soul : donation regulations in Danish and Norwegian medieval legislation / Helle Vogt
By love and by law : choices of female donors in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Sweden / Anu Lahtinen
Gender and donation culture in Iceland from 1300 to 1600 / Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir
Luther's last will and the invention of testamentary freedom / Mathias Schmoeckel
Pious donations : the act of giving in the Lutheran Church and its spatial implications / Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen
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
"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
The age of miracles? Alms culture and charitable donations in Copenhagen, c.1770-1830 / Peter Wessel Hansen
How to exchange with the dead : the significance of heirlooms in contemporary Danish inheritance practices / Bodil Selmer
Gifts to, from, and between spouses : present regulation in th Nordic countries / John Asland.