History of Wills, Testators and Their Families in Late Medieval Krakow Tools of Power

This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of wills in late medieval Krakow. It presents the origins of testamentary acts in the Kingdom of Poland and its centre, Krakow, and their subsequent transformation from so called 'canonical wills' to 'communal wills'. Wysmułek d...

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Main Author: Wysmułek, Jakub (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Brill 2021
Series:Later Medieval Europe
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