Our colleagues at Bristol (Gwen Seabourne) and Dalhousie (Kris Kesselring) are organizing a conference on the above topic at All Souls, Oxford. They are seeking expressions of interest in participating in a one-day workshop on the theme of ‘crime and conjugality’ in European history prior to c. 1800, with the aim of producing an edited collection of essays on the topic thereafter.
They write:
Marriage is a social institution with complex functions and meanings that are neither transparent nor unchanging. It does much to determine many women’s legal capacity, social agency, and rights; it has shaped and been shaped by deeply gendered, patriarchal relations of power between and among women and men. As such, it has long been a site and source of conflicts both personal and political. The conversations at our one-day workshop will contribute to the historical analysis of this culturally significant pattern of social action by exploring its relationship with criminal law in the pre-modern past.
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