Gender and Divorce in Europe: 1600 - 1900 (eBook, ePUB)

A Praxeological Perspective
Redaktion: Griesebner, Andrea; Doxiadis, Evdoxios

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Getting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next. Civil marriage law still echoes religious marriage law, which for centuries determined which persons could enter into marriage with each other and how validly contracted marriages could be ended.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000929614
• Artikelnr.: 68301656

Autorenporträt

Andrea Griesebner is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Vienna. She served as vice chair from 2014 to 2017 and as chair of the department from 2017 to 2020. She obtained her PhD in 1998 and her Habilitation in 2001 in the field of Early Modern Gender and Criminal History at the University of Vienna. In recent years, her work and publications have focused on divorce and the consequences of divorce for Catholic couples. As principal investigator, she directed three third-party funded research projects on this topic. These were supported by the Austrian Science Fund and by the Anniversary Fund of the National Bank of Austria between 2011 and 2020. Evdoxios Doxiadis is an Associate Professor in History at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada. His research is on Greek, Balkan, and Mediterranean history with a focus on the 18th and 19th centuries and a particular interest in questions of gender, law, state formation, and minorities. He has published two monographs: The Shackles of Modernity: Women, Property, and the Transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Modern Greek State 1750-1850 (2011) and State, Nationalism and the Jewish Communities of Modern Greece (2018), and a co-edited volume with Aimee Placas entitled Living under Austerity: Greek Society in Crisis (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

1.Introduction. 2.Women and Work. Part I - Divorce from Bed and Board.
3.Separated Beds - Interwoven Property: Separation and Divorce in the
Habsburg Monarchy between the mid-16th and the mid-19th Centuries.
4.Separating Persons and Property in Early Modern English Marriages.
5.Divorce in Early Modern Bilbao. 6.Judicial Separation and Its Material
Effects in France during the 16th and 17th Centuries. 7.Interwoven
Ecclesiastical and Civil Divorce Trials: A Venetian Case Study (1785).
8.Divorce during the Concordat at the Marriage Courts of Prague and Trent
(1857-1868). 9.Material Matters: Dissolution of Economic Ties in the
Context of Divorces in Rural Lower Austria in the 1920s and 1930s. Part II
- Divorce with Dissolution of the Marriage. 10.Enduring Animosity:
Negotiating Post-separation Conflicts in the German County of Lippe (17th
and 18th Centuries). 11.The Indistinct Line between Marriage and Divorce:
Ambiguous Nature of the Marital Status in the 17th Century Ottoman Empire.
12.The Influence of Islamic Law on Greek Orthodox Divorce under Ottoman
Rule. 13.The Economy of Islamic Divorce in Habsburg Bosnia and Herzegovina
(1878-1918). 14.New Possibilities - New Practices? Divorces of Jewish
Couples under the Purview of the Austrian Civil Code in the 19th-Century:
Provisions, Agreements, and Property Issues.