American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Gender, Family, and Legal Practice in the Medieval Mediterranean,” November 5, 2021 @ 10:15 – 11:45 am

10:15 AM – 11:45 AM

Gender, Family, and Legal Practice in the Medieval Mediterranean (Pelican 1)

Chair: Sara McDougall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and CUNY Graduate Center (smcdougall@jjay.cuny.edu). Commentator: Sara McDougall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and CUNY Graduate Center (smcdougall@jjay.cuny.edu)

Arnaud Fossier, University of Bourgogne (Arnaud.Fossier@u-bourgogne.fr)
Adultery and Impotence. Family Law vs. Local Strategies in a Pre-modern Italian Church Court

Lucie Laumonier, Concordia University (lucie.laumonier@concordia.ca)
Adultery and Illegitimate Offspring in Southern France: Storytelling in a Court of Justice

Yanay Israeli, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (yanay.israeli@mail.huji.ac.il)
Women as Petitioners in Fifteenth-Century Castile: Conflicts, Complaints and Royal Redress

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