IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 310: Marriage and Remarriage
Monday 3 July 2017, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Aysu Dinçer, Department of History, University of Warwick |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Richard M. Goddard, Department of History, University of Nottingham |
| Paper 310-a | Forced to Remarry?: Taxes on Widows and Second Marriages in Genoese Chios (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Gender Studies, Social History, Women's Studies |
| Paper 310-b | Marriage and Remarriage Patterns among Scottish Comital Heiresses in Late Medieval Scotland (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Social History, Women's Studies |
| Paper 310-c | Yet Another Husband?: Queenship and Remarriage in Cyprus (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Gender Studies, Social History, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | This session will explore attitudes towards women and remarriage, focusing on issues such as agency, recovery of dowries, inheritance, economic activities, and relationships with the wider family. The first paper will focus on the Chiotan tax on widows, looking at examples of remarriages from notarial documents and comparing attitudes towards remarriage between mother-country Genoa and colonial Chios. The second paper looks at the marriages and remarriages of Scottish comital heiresses in late medieval Scotland, analysing their seal designs and extant charters to discern the machinations behind their marriages. The final paper will analyse the remarriage patterns of queens of Cyprus. |