In early modern Portugal, for instance, there is little evidence that women's rights to inherit and bequeath property were altered in any significant manner. More recent research raises questions about the applicability of this thesis, most notably because it fails to take into account the varied customs and practices that continued to exist in many regions across Europe. With the emergence of the modern state, the argument goes, laws of inheritance and property ownership were streamlined and entrenched to reflect the rise of the new patriarchal family as promulgated by some leaders of the Protestant Reformation. Abstract : Studies of early modern women suggest that women's access to and control of private property were systematically curtailed in the transition from the Middle Ages to the early modern period.
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