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Probate Inventories

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Probate inventories are detailed lists of a deceased person's assets and liabilities, compiled during the probate process. They serve to assess the estate's value, facilitate the distribution of assets to heirs, and ensure compliance with legal and tax obligations.
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Probate inventories are detailed lists of a deceased person's assets and liabilities, compiled during the probate process. They serve to assess the estate's value, facilitate the distribution of assets to heirs, and ensure compliance with legal and tax obligations.

Key research themes

1. How can probate inventories elucidate historical inheritance practices and legal succession challenges?

This theme examines the role of probate inventories in understanding inheritance laws and legal succession processes, particularly in historical contexts where multiple inheritance systems coexisted or where legal succession was complicated by socio-political upheavals. The matter is critical in cases involving vacancy of inheritance, heirless estates, and restitution claims tied to property rights across eras and jurisdictions, elucidated through detailed probate records combined with legal analysis.

Key finding: This paper clarifies how probate inventories and legal texts illuminate the inheritance challenges under the Warsaw Decree post-WWII, showing that due to diverse partition-era inheritance laws (German BGB, Austrian ABGB,... Read more
Key finding: The work elaborates on the legal hermeneutics of 'vacant inheritance' under the Napoleonic Code as reflected in probate inventories and legal records from central Poland. It distinguishes between legal concepts of vacant and... Read more

2. What do probate inventories reveal about socio-economic status, household material culture, and domestic space in historical societies?

This research theme focuses on how probate inventories serve as detailed records to reconstruct the material wealth, domestic spaces, social identities, and living standards of individuals and households in various historical periods and regions. The inventories provide empirical insights into ownership patterns, household itemization, and the spatial distribution within homes, illuminating class distinctions and cultural practices tied to property and consumption.

Key finding: By analyzing 2,577 digitized probate inventories from the Dutch Cape Colony, this paper reveals settlers possessed material wealth comparable to prosperous European regions, challenging prior assumptions of impoverishment.... Read more
Key finding: Through in-depth examination of twelve mid-17th-century probate inventories, this thesis demonstrates how inventories document intersections of material culture, professional identity, and social status. The inventories... Read more
Key finding: This article uses probate inventories to detect patterns of possession and consumption differentiating rural peasants and urban bourgeoisies in late medieval Ireland. Statistical and comparative analysis of inventory content... Read more
Key finding: Utilizing unpublished female probate inventories from 17th-century Candia, this study uncovers patterns of possession that reflect gendered socio-economic roles and cultural affiliations. Inventories detail valuable household... Read more

3. How do probate inventories inform our understanding of architectural and domestic spatial organization in historical contexts?

This theme highlights research employing probate inventories to map interior domestic spaces, room functions, and living standards in historical households. By cataloging room counts, spatial specialization, and furniture inventories, scholars extrapolate changes in privacy, social usage of space, and material comfort over time, contributing to the architectural and social history of domestic environments.

Key finding: Analyzing over 300 Valencian probate inventories, this study quantitatively traces the transition from simple to specialized room layouts after the 1370s, revealing increased functional complexity in urban dwellings. Probate... Read more
Key finding: Parallel to the above study, this article confirms through qualitative and quantitative analysis of Valencian probate records that late medieval homes increasingly featured specialized rooms for service, comfort, and... Read more
Key finding: Using architectural archaeological data alongside probate-derived building use evidence, this study illustrates how timber-framed buildings structured social interactions and urban life in early modern Sweden. It links... Read more

4. In what ways do probate inventories provide insights into textile handiwork, clothing, and personal possessions among specific demographic groups?

Focused on textile production, wardrobe composition, and craft practices, this theme examines probate inventories as a resource to document the ownership and social significance of clothing and textile handiwork. By concentrating on particular social categories, such as young women or artisans, researchers utilize inventories to infer domestic labor divisions, economic status, and material culture related to textiles.

Key finding: Through analysis of six probate inventories of women under 30 in late 18th-century Oulu, this paper demonstrates that detailed probate data on clothing and textile items provide methodological avenues to study young women’s... Read more
Key finding: By synthesizing probate inventories and wills, this paper reconstructs the complex material culture surrounding beds and bedding during the late medieval and early modern period. It documents types and values of bedsteads,... Read more
Key finding: By transcribing and analyzing the 1533 inventory of tableware and ivory objects, this work reveals the detailed craft and material culture of an artisan’s workshop. It opens perspectives on the economic and artistic value of... Read more

All papers in Probate Inventories

Tereke/inheritance/probate records document the inventory of a deceased person’s assets and as stated in the relevant literature, constitute significant archival sources in the study of a region’s socio-economic conditions. This study is... more
This thesis investigates the pivotal role of notaries and probate inventories in shaping legal, economic, and social life in early modern Agen, a provincial town in southwestern France. Focusing on the work of royal notaries Jean-Jacques... more
Tereke kayıtları, kadılar tarafından tutulan, ölen kişiye ait mal dökümleridir. Bu belgelerde müteveffaların para değeri olan taşınır taşınmaz tüm mal varlığıyla borç aldığı ve verdiği miktarlar kayıt altına alınır. Örneğin eski bir çift... more
Osmanlı Devleti'nde tüketim kültürünün varlığı, tüketim kalıpları üzerine bu güne kadar önemli bazı çalışmalar yapılmıştır. Bu konuda Tülay Artan ve Cristoph K. Neumann'ın çalışmaları dikkate değerdir ve yol gösterici mahiyettedir.... more
This article uses inventory evidence for the possessions of households in later fifteenth-century County Dublin, an area largely characterised by rural settlement. Because household goods are often only indifferently recorded, its focus... more
This is a review of Boğaç A. Ergene’s book Defining Corruption in the Ottoman Empire: Morality, Legality, and Abuse of Power in Premodern Governance.
This article quantitatively examines women’s wealth in İstanbul in the first half of the 18th century, using inheritance records extracted from İstanbul Court Registers. This study aims to analyze the economic status of women and the... more
W opracowaniach dotyczących życia i dziejów kultu EUFEMII (Ofki) raciborskiej, Piastówny, która zmarła 17 stycznia 1359 r. w opinii świętości, pojawia się wzmianka o dominikaninie Reginaldzie Braunie z czeskiej prowincji Zakonu... more
Executive Summary This thesis studies: 1. Actual inequality in Tudor and Stuart England generally and Cheshire in particular 2. Tudor and Stuart attitudes to inequality. 3. Actual inequality in 20th century Britain. 4. Public attitudes... more
Bu çalışma Osmanlı toplumunda kişilerin kullandıkları unvanlarla servetleri arasındaki ilişkiyi terekeler üzerinden incelemektedir. Unvanlara göre servet düzeylerinin nasıl farklılaştığı ve sabit bir servet hiyerarşisinin olup olmadığı... more
In this short intervention the author analyzes the attestations of the Polish coins that circulated in the Romanian space. Since they are relatively numerous, it has stopped on one of them, namely the ”potronic”. Potronic is a word... more
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İ slam ilim geleneği içinde bibliyografik eserlerin önemli bir yeri vardır. Bu geleneğin Osmanlı ilim adamları tarafından da devam ettirildiği bilinmektedir. Kâtip Çelebi'nin Keşfü'z-Zünûn an-Esâmi'l-Kütübi ve'l-Fünûn isimli eseri bu... more
İ slam ilim geleneği içinde bibliyografik eserlerin önemli bir yeri vardır. Bu geleneğin Osmanlı ilim adamları tarafından da devam ettirildiği bilinmektedir. Kâtip Çelebi'nin Keşfü'z-Zünûn an-Esâmi'l-Kütübi ve'l-Fünûn isimli eseri bu... more
Despre Maria Dimancea se mai cunosc câteva informații, toate datorate în special testamentului său și mai ales procesului de judecată care a urmat după decesul testatoarei (1861). Maria Dimancea s-a născut la Pitești în 1838 (Biserica... more
Osmanlı Devleti’nin idari, ekonomik ve sosyal tarihine ilişkin çalışmaların ekseriyetle Anadolu coğrafyasına yoğunlaştığı görülmektedir. Bu noktadan hareketle bu çalışmada M. 1778-1782 (H.1191-1197) tarihlerine ait 63 numaralı Manastır... more
Hausarbeit für das Seminar „Unterwelt, Kriminalität und Strafvollzug im frühneuzeitlichen Mittelmeerraum“, Sommersemester 2023.
Biz bu makalede iki genel soruyu inceleyerek, bu sayı konusunu içeren makaleleri alanın daha geniş bağlamına yerleştirmeyi hedefliyoruz: İlk olarak, neden şer‘iyye mahkemeleri ve onunla ilgili sosyo-hukuk alan 1990’lara kadar ilmî açıdan... more
SouthEast Europe through the Centuries: Social History, Contacts of Languages and Cultures Le Sud-Est européen à travers les siècles: histoire sociale, contacts linguistiques et culturels
Located in the commune of Viișoara in Neamț County, two kilometers from the village of Scaricica, where the access is via a serpentine road, of impressive beauty, at an altitude of 650 m, the Bisericani Monastery was built of wood by the... more
Toplumun temel yapı birimi aile, tüm kültür ve medeniyetlerde önemli yer edinmiştir. Osmanlı sosyal yaşamını anlayabilmek için de bu ana unsurun iyi incelenmesi gerekir. Osmanlı toplumsal yapısı ile ilgili önemli bir yere sahip olan... more
The year 2012 marked the 400 th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and Türkiye. The history of Dutch-Turkish relations presented in the work is a synthetic description of the mutual relations... more
The year 2012 marked the 400th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and Türkiye. The history of Dutch-Turkish relations presented in the work is a synthetic description of the mutual relations... more
Testamente de negustori i me te ugari din ara Româneasc (secolele XVII-XIX) (Editura Universit ii "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" Ia i, 2021). De asemenea, de-a lungul timpului a publicat numeroase articole în reviste tiin ifice din ar i str in... more
Titu Maiorescu și Vasile Alecsandri: discursuri în antiteză privind "chestiunea evreiască" (1879) Sorin Liviu DAMEAN .
In medieval and early modern Wallachia and Moldavia - like elsewhere in Western Europe - the Church accumulated vast assets which placed it, alongside the noble elites (the boyars), among the key players in the period’s social, economic,... more
MIHAI MÎRZA * ÎNCĂLCĂRI ALE DREPTULUI DE CTITORIE: PROCESELE DEZÎNCHINĂRII MĂNĂSTIRII PRECISTA MARE DIN ROMAN (SECOLELE XVIII−XIX) ** Argument 1. Formă importantă de manifestare a pietății, puterii și prestigiului social, actul de... more
Lucreţiu Mihăilescu-Bîrliba, Les étrangers en Scythie selon les sources épigraphiques (fin du III e siècle ap. J.-C.-VI e siècle ap. J.-C.
În Moldova secolelor XVII-XVIII, cultul morților (înmormântarea, ospățul funerar, pomenirile, darurile etc.) a fost foarte important atât ca parte a ceremonialului bisericesc, cât și ca practică socială. În acest sens, s-au păstrat o... more
The period of the Organic Regulation of Wallachia (1831-1858), despite its major importance for deciphering the mechanisms of the modernization of the Romanian space, is still insufficiently researched, especially in terms of the aspects... more
Responsabilitatea pentru opiniile exprimate în textele publicate revine în exclusivitate autorilor.
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Bu makalede, XVI. yüzyıl Osmanlı Üsküdar'ındaki kitap kültürü terekelerde tespit edilen eserlerden hareketle değerlendirilmeye çalışılacaktır. Bu değerlendirmeyi yapabilmek için öncelikle kaynaklar hakkında bilgi verilecek, daha sonra... more
In the Seljuks, Mamluks and the Ottoman Empire, particularly the endowed decision and the kept minutes by kadis chronologically was recorded the book called kadi records. This books is called as the registers of şer'iye, the court books,... more
As we aim to improve the performance of our existing building stock, both to reduce carbon emissions and to improve occupant comfort, even timber-framed buildings that have stood for hundreds of years are now the focus of energy... more
Ottoman archieve records has been increasingly came into prominence in Art History discipline at the present-day, as well as in the whole fields of research concerned social and cultural history of Ottoman period. Tereke... more
Kincses Katalin Mária-T u z a Csilla A CÉHTÖRTÉNETI KUTATÁSOK ÚJABB LEHETŐSÉGEI HAZAI ÉS KÜLFÖLDI GYŰJTEMÉNYEK RŐL KÉSZÍTETT CÉHES ADATBÁZIS ALAPJÁN i. A számítógépes nyilvántartási rendszerek aktuális fejlettségi szintje, a mai Magyaror... more
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