Succession Law, Practice and Society in Europe across the Centuries

Introduction.- Ch 1: The Right of Troncalidad in Castillian Inheritance in the High Middle Ages.- Ch 2: Family Succession Wars: Succession Norms and Practices in Medieval and Modern Catalonia .- Ch 3: Actiones Hereditariae - Claims in Favour of, and Against Heirs in Medieval Ius Commune.- Ch 4: The Ius Decretalium and the Development of the Law of Succession in Medieval Europe - Some Examples from Denmark and Sweden (XII-XII c.).- Ch 5: Testamentary Freedom in Law and Practice in Medieval Sweden: Conflicts and Coexistence.- Ch 6: The Evolution of the Scots Law and Practice of Succession: 1300-2000.- Ch 7: Women's Succession from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era.- Ch 8: A Coffer for the Will.- Ch 9: Materia est valde periculosa: Interpreting Testaments in Quattrocento Florence.- Ch 10: Disinheritance of Children for Lack of Parental Consent to the Marriage in the Ius Commune and Early Modern Scholastic Traditions.- Ch 11: Quidquid ex Testamento Petunt Scriptum Heredem Convenire Debent - Initial Comments on the Inheritance Transactio from the Ius Commune to the Early Modern Period.- Ch 12: Between Practice and Theory: Succession Law According to Jacques Cujas (1522-1590) .- Ch 13: A Difficult Legacy - Initial Comments on the Inheritance Rights of Filii Clericorum in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.- Ch 14: Consilia and Dynastic Successions in Modern Europe.- Ch 15: Gift Mortis Causa in the Ius Commune: Contract and Last Will.- Ch 16: Towards a Ius Commune Europaeum on Successions and Testament? The 17th Century Decisiones Rotae Romanae.- Ch 17: Intestate Succession Between Doctrine and Roman Rota Case Law in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.- Ch 18: Royal Successions - A Special Law for the Inheritance of Power?.- Ch 19: The Difficult Road to Harmonization of French Succession Law.- Ch 20: Notes on the Bonae Fidei Possessio pro Herede in the Civil Law Systems (19th-20th Centuries).