IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 314: Gender, Networks, and Community in Legal Sources, III: Agency and Representation
Monday 2 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
Organisers: | Aysu Dinçer, Department of History, University of Warwick Chiara Ravera, Department of History, University of Nottingham |
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Moderator/Chair: | Anna Rich-Abad, Department of History, University of Nottingham |
Paper 314-a | 'How to catch a wife': Marriage and 'Unmarriage' in 15th-Century Famagusta (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Gender Studies, Social History |
Paper 314-b | Verbal Violence and Gender in Communal Italy: Bologna in the Later Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Social History, Women's Studies |
Abstract | The first paper uses trial documentation (libri maleficiorum) from Bologna to present an insight into the social and gender relationships resulting from daily verbal violence. The second paper looks at the construction and consolidation of family and business networks in Genoese Famagusta in the 15th century, focusing on the economic links married men forged with their wives' families, by taking part in joint business partnerships and loan arrangements, and acting as representatives. |