IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 349: Women versus Borders in Medieval Towns, III: Among Men or Together with Them
Monday 6 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
Organiser: | Beata Możejko, Zakład Historii Średniowiecza Polski i Nauk Pomocniczych Historii, Uniwersytet Gdański |
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Moderator/Chair: | Anna Adamska, Onderzoekinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
Paper 349-a | Testing Legal Boundaries for Urban Women in Late Medieval Moravia (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Daily Life, Gender Studies, Law |
Paper 349-b | Female Religious Communities in Medieval Český Krumlov (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Gender Studies, Women's Studies |
Paper 349-c | Women from Patrician Families in Medieval Gdańsk: Were They Only in the Shadow of Men? (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Law, Women's Studies |
Abstract | The first paper will offer a general view of several legal institutions that played a crucial role in various phases of the lifecycle of urban female population in late medieval Moravia. The focus will be on the possibilities of unmarried girls to inherit property, options for wives to manage family property and also, on the widows handling inheritance. The second paper is dedicated to the unique triple monastery complex in the residential town of the powerful Rosenberg family in South Bohemia. Its aim is to introduce the unique visual culture of the two female religious communities who lived in this monastic complex: Poor Clare sisters and female tertiaries (or beguines).The third paper draws attention to the unique positions of women from patrician families in medieval Gdańsk compared to other social groups. Were these women constantly in the shadow of their father, their husbands and their brother. |