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"For the salvation of my soul": women and wills in medieval and early modern France
No full textThis volume seeks to investigate the testamentary practices of women in medieval and early modern France, examining the experience of a cross-section of the population, from artisans to the elite, in Aix-en-Provence, Avignon, Marseille, Montpellier, La Rochelle, Brittany, and Burgundy. The making of a will was perhaps the single most prominent moment in women’s lives for the assertion of agency. Though constrained to some degree by customary practice and the increasing influence of Roman law, women demonstrated remarkable initiative in the formulation of their last wishes. Wills permitted women to reward friendship and loyalty, to designate universal heirs as major beneficiaries, to stipulate conditions of inheritance so that last wishes were carried out, and, perhaps most importantly, to make pious donations to the Church for the salvation of the testators’ souls. They chose their burial sites and arranged for funeral processions, and they endowed anniversary masses for their souls in perpetuity. Individual testamentary decisions differed, as did spousal strategies, but the reinforcement of family ties, even the assertion of relationship, was possible in wills.Introduction / Joëlle Rollo-Koster and
Kathryn L. Reyerson -- Item Lego... Item Volo... Is there really an 'I' in medieval Provençales’ wills? / Joëlle Rollo-Koster -- Family emotional outlets? Women’s wills, women’s voices in medieval Marseille / Francine Michaud -- Wills of spouses in Montpellier before 1350: a case study of gender in testamentary practice / Kathryn L. Reyerson -- Scripts for funeral theater: Burgundian testaments and the performance of social identities / Kathleen Ashley -- Women and gift-giving in eighteenth-century Brittany: wills and donations / Nancy Locklin -- Writing wills and families: constructing mixed-race families in eighteenth-century France / Jennifer L. Palmer -- BibliographyPublisher PD
Dan Kelly presented “Rules Versus Standards in Wills, Trusts, and Estates” at the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting on “The Next Generation of Trusts and Estates Scholarship” panel in New York, NY, January 3.
No full textDan Kelly presented “Rules Versus Standards in Wills, Trusts, and Estates” at the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting on “The Next Generation of Trusts and Estates Scholarship” panel in New York, NY, January 3, 201
MindCollect: An information needs management system for coalition situational awareness, sensemaking, decision making, and mission integration
No full textAn efficient mechanism for bottom-up elicitation from
domain experts is a key enabler for producing meaningful
information requirements specifications. This paper
describes “MindCollect,” an information-requirements
management system that consists of: (a) An Information
Needs Profiling Module for Q&A-based elicitation and
gathering of operational user tasks and associated
information needs; (b) Answer dataset management; and,
(c) Automated formulation of coherent task narratives (aka
user stories) using techniques inspired by Natural
Language Generation approaches. MindCollect has proven
efficient and effective in the bottom-up elicitation of
requirements from domain experts. The use of MindCollect
for determination of requirements in a civil emergency
management project is described. Finally, we describe
future research directions, including the potential for
leveraging Linked Open Data
Harriet Kelly
No full textHarriet Kelly, wife of Charles Kelly, is shown here with Josiah Gibbs and Frank Beckwith at Marysvale, Utah. Charles Kelly was a printer, artist, author, historian, the first superintendent of Capitol Reef National Park
Charles Kelly
No full textCharles Kelly is shown in this image at age 82. Charles Kelly was a printer, artist, author, historian, the first superintendent of Capitol Reef National Park
A design model for effective serious games
No full textMany theories have arisen about how to design serious games, but the ideas presented are often disparate, or miss important aspects arisen in others, making further advancement in the field more difficult. To solve this problem, a model is proposed in this paper to help design more effective serious games. The model integrates key characteristics of learning, gameplay, and serious game theories to outline the key considerations in compelling educational gameplay
Wills - Lost Revoking Instrument
No full textOral testimony of a lost revoking instrument is not admissible to defeat an existing valid will. A revoking other writing must be executed and proved in the manner required by the Wills Act.
Leonard Estate, 427 Pa. 363, 234 A.2d 856 (1967).
Charles Kelly
No full textCharles Kelly was a printer, artist, author, historian, the first superintendent of Capitol Reef National Park
Charles Kelly
No full textCharles Kelly was a printer, artist, author, historian, the first superintendent of Capitol Reef National Park
Charles Kelly
No full textCharles Kelly was a printer, artist, author, historian, the first superintendent of Capitol Reef National Park
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