IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 1316: Rules of Domestic Life in Medieval Court Records
Wednesday 11 July 2012, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Brenda M. Bolton, University of London |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Kirsi Salonen, Department of History & Philosophy, University of Tampere |
| Paper 1316-a | Marriage and Honour in the Town Council Court of 14th-Century Zürich (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Gender Studies, Law, Social History |
| Paper 1316-b | Divorce on the Basis of Cruelty in 15th-Century York (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Daily Life, Gender Studies, Social History |
| Paper 1316-c | Acting against the Judicial Sentence: Cases of Recurrence in the Ecclesiastical Court of Freising (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Daily Life, Gender Studies, Social History |
| Abstract | The jurisdictional landscape of 14th- and 15th-century Europe offered a number of possibilities to men and women which sought legal means to pursue their domestic conflicts. Especially the ecclesiastical courts and - in some cases - the town council courts were occupied with familial conflicts as for instance marital cruelty, adultery, verbal assaults and disputes of all kinds. This session explores the unwritten community rules regarding marriage which are mentioned in ecclesiastical and town council courts. Furthermore it examines the connections between honour and marriage, the acceptable and unacceptable levels of domestic violence and the various social and legal litigation opportunities. |