Gender and Divorce in Europe: 1600 – 1900

Autor(en)

Andrea Griesebner, Evdoxios Doxiadis

Abstrakt

Getting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next. Civil marriage law still echoes religious marriage law, which for centuries determined which persons could enter into marriage with each other and how validly contracted marriages could be ended.

Religions and denominations also had different regulations regarding whether a divorce only ended marital obligations or also permitted remarriage during the lifetime of the divorced spouse. This book deals with predominantly handwritten documents of divorce proceedings from the British Isles to Western, Central, and Southeastern Europe, and from 1600 to the 1930s. The praxeological analysis reveals the arguments and strategies put forward to obtain or prevent divorce, as well as the social and, above all, economic conditions and arrangements connected with divorce. The contributions break new ground by combining previously often separate fields of research and regions of investigation. It makes clear that the gender order doesn’t always run along religious lines, as was too often assumed.

This book will be of interest to all scholars and students of economic, social, religious, cultural, legal, and gender history as well as gender and well-being in a broader sense.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Geschichte

Externe Organisation(en)

Simon Fraser University

Anzahl der Seiten

250

DOI

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003334552

Publikationsdatum

08-2023

ÖFOS 2012

601028 Geschlechtergeschichte

Schlagwörter

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/gender-and-divorce-in-europe-1600--1900(49c1fdb0-0236-437e-ae0f-929e40cb520f).html