Freitag, 18. Oktober 2024, 18:00 - 19:30 iCal

Gender and Divorce in Europe: 1600 – 1900

A Praxeological Perspective

Aula am Campus der Universität Wien
Spitalgasse 2-4 / Hof 1.11, 1090 Wien

Buchpräsentation, Lesung


Gender and Divorce in Europe: 1600 – 1900. A Praxeological Perspective

eds. Andrea Griesebner, Evdoxios Doxiadis

Routledge 2024

 

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.

Religions and denominations also had different regulations regarding whether a divorce only ended marital obligations or also permitted remarriage during the lifetime of the divorced spouse. This book deals with predominantly handwritten documents of divorce proceedings from the British Isles to Western, Central, and Southeastern Europe, and from 1600 to the 1930s. The praxeological analysis reveals the arguments and strategies put forward to obtain or prevent divorce, as well as the social and, above all, economic conditions and arrangements connected with divorce. The contributions break new ground by combining previously often separate fields of research and regions of investigation. It makes clear that the gender order doesn’t always run along religious lines, as was too often assumed.

 

PROGRAM

 

18.00 – 18.05 | WELCOME ADDRESS by Thomas Hellmuth, chair of the Department of History

18.05 – 18.15 | INTRODUCTION by Andrea Griesebner and Evdoxios Doxiadis

 

18.15 – 18.45 | ROUND TABLE | Part 1

Susanne Hehenberger, Andrea Griesebner, K.J. Kesselring, Nere Jone Intxaustegi Jauregi, Claire Chatelain and Tim Stretten

Moderation: Jennifer Blaak

 

18.45 – 19.00 | MUSIC | Part 1

Susanna Ridler (vocals, looper & electronic)

Sophie Hassfurther (tenor saxophone & recorder)

Asja Valcic (cello)

 

19.00 – 19.25 | ROUND TABLE | Part 2

Ninja Bumann, Evdoxios Doxiades, Iris Fleßenkämper, Ellinor Forster and Gamze Yavuzer

Moderation: Jennifer Blaak

 

19.25 – 19.30 | MUSIC | Part 2

Susanna Ridler (vocals, looper & electronic)

Sophie Hassfurther (tenor saxophone & recorder)

Asja Valcic (cello)

 

19.30 | BUFFET


Veranstalter

Andrea Griesebner


Kontakt

Maria Magdalena Irnstötter
Department of History
01-4277-40833
maria.magdalena.irnstoetter@univie.ac.at