IMC 2026: Sessions
Session 1709: Charting Female Property and Patrimonial Rights in Law and Practice, III: France and the German-Speaking Areas, 12th-15th Centuries
Thursday 9 July 2026, 14:15-15:45
| Sponsor: | ERC Consolidator Grant 'Charting Female Property and Patrimonial Rights in Law and Practice across Western Europe, 12th-16th Centuries (PatriFem - 101126116) |
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| Organiser: | Denise Bezzina, Dafist - Dipartimento di Antichità, Filosofia e Storia, Università di Genova |
| Moderator/Chair: | Serena Galasso, Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Geografiche e dell'Antichità (DISSGeA), Università degli Studi di Padova |
| Paper 1709-a | Finding the Norm: Challenges in Reconstructing Female Property and Patrimonial Rights in Late Medieval Cologne (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Law, Social History |
| Paper 1709-b | Between Statutes, Custom, and Reality: Women's Property Rights in Southern France and the German-Speaking Areas, 13th-16th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Gender Studies, Law, Social History |
| Paper 1709-c | Women's Property Rights in Northern France: From Custom to Written Law, 13th-15th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Law, Social History |
| Abstract | In exploring the changes in female and property and patrimonial rights France and the German-speaking areas provide for an interesting comparison due to the different legal traditions at the basis of normative changes: while in France one can distinguish between the southern area where Roman civil law was predominant and the north were customary law prevailed, in the German area the legal landscape was much more fragmented. The panel will explore normative differences, the diversified timelines in which laws were introduced and the extent to which law matched practice. |