Thursday, 19 July 2018

13.30 – 14.00
Registration
14.00 – 14.45
Welcome and Introduction
Annette C. Cremer (Gießen) and Hannes Ziegler (London)

Session 1: The value of immovable property
Chair: Grethe Jacobsen (Copenhagen)

14.45 – 15.45
AMELIE STUART (Graz):
THE RIGHT OF OWNERSHIP IN EARLY MODERN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

JANINE MAEGRAITH (Cambridge, Vienna):
FENCES AND THE MEANING OF PROPERTY

15.45 – 16.30
Coffee Break

16.30 – 17.30
SUSANN ANETT PEDERSEN (Trondheim):
WILLS, MARRIAGE CONTRACTS AND GIFT LETTERS – DEVOLUTION OF LANDED PROPERTY AMONG THE NORWEGIAN NOBILITY IN LATE MEDIEVAL NORWAY

LUISA STELLA DE OLIVEIRA COUTINHO SILVA (Lisbon):
POSSESSION AND PROPERTY IN COLONIAL BRAZIL: WOMEN AND GOODS IN THE CAPTAINCY OF PARAÍBA

17.45 – 18.45
Keynote Lecture:
MARGARETH LANZINGER (Vienna):
MOVABLE GOODS AND IMMOVABLE PROPERTY - INTERRELATED PERSPECTIVES

19.30 Dinner

Friday, 20 July 2018

Session 2: The value of movable goods
Chair: Evdoxios Doxiadis (Vancouver)

09.30 – 10.30
KATHERINE L. FRENCH (Michigan):
GENDER AND HOUSEHOLD GOODS IN LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN LONDON

REBECCA MASON (Glasgow):
GENDER, LAW AND THE DIVISION OF MARITAL PROPERTY UPON DEATH IN EARLY MODERN SCOTLAND

10.30 – 11.00
Coffee Break

11.00 – 12.00
CHRISTINE WALKER (Singapore):
“MY SLAVES WHEREOF I AM SEIZED IN MY OWN RIGHT:” WOMEN, INHERITANCE, AND THE GROWTH OF SLAVERY IN COLONIAL JAMAICA

IDA FAZIO (Palermo):
WOMEN AND MOVABLE GOODS IN A MARITIME BORDER ECONOMY (AEOLIAN ISLANDS, EARLY 19TH C.)
12.00 – 14.00 Lunchbreak

Session 3: Gendered Distributions of Wealth
Chair: Heide Wunder (Bad Nauheim)

14.00 – 15.30
GÁBOR BRADÁCS (Budapest):
THE NOTION OF FEMALE INHERITANCE AND “FEMALE POSSESSION” IN THE STADTBÜCHER OF THE LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN KINGDOM OF HUNGARY

KAAT CAPPELLE (Brussel):
THE ‘CONSTRAINED’ OR ‘SELF-LIMITING PATRIARCHY’. WIVES, HOUSEHOLD AUTHORITY AND LAW IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ANTWERP

SIGLINDE CLEMENTI (Bolzano):
NEGOTIATED HONOUR. ARRANGEMENT OF PROPERTY IN MARRIAGE CONTRACTS OF THE TYROLEAN NOBILITY IN THE FIRST MODERN PERIOD

15.30 – 16.00
COFFEE BREAK

16.00 – 17.00
MICHAËL GASPERONI (Paris):
BETWEEN DIVERGING LAWS, TRADITIONS AND CONTEXTS. THE JEWISH INHERITANCE IN THE ITALIAN GHETTOS IN EARLY MODERN ITALY

ANNA BELLAVITIS (Rouen):
FROM MOVABLE TO IMMOVABLE AND BACK: THE MUTABILITY OF WOMEN’S PROPERTY IN RENAISSANCE VENICE

17.15 – 18.15
KEYNOTE LECTURE:
AMY ERICKSON (Cambridge):
THE SOCIAL CAPITAL AND PHYSICAL ASSETS OF CRAFTSWOMEN IN EARLY MODERN LONDON

Saturday, 21 July 2018

Session 4: Shifting Values
Chair: Ida Fazio (Palermo)

9.30 – 10.30
NICOLETA ROMAN (New Europe College/ Romania):
STARTING A MARRIED LIFE. WOMEN, GOODS AND HOUSEHOLDS IN THE MID-19TH CENTURY WALLACHIAN TOWN OF PITEȘTI

EVDOXIOS DOXIADIS (Vancouver):
STAMP DUTY AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE DOWRY IN 19TH CENTURY GREECE

10.30 – 11.00
COFFEE BREAK

Session 5: Usufruct and other strategies of the middling sort and of lower social strata
Chair: Anna Bellavitis (Rouen)

11.00 – 12.30
CHRISTOF JEGGLE (Würzburg):
WHO GETS WHAT? MANAGING POSSESSION, PROPERTY AND USUFRUCT OF MOBILE AND IMMOBILE OBJECTS AMONG SPOUSES, RELATIVES AND OTHER PARTIES IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY MÜNSTER / WESTPHALIA

FATMA GÜL KARAGÖZ (Istanbul):
LAND-GIRLS OF VIDIN AND ANTAKYA. THE REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN THE 18TH-CENTURY OTTOMAN EMPIRE

BEATRICE ZUCCA MICHELETTO (Cambridge/ Rouen):
A SILENT CONFLICT? HOW WOMEN LOST THE CONTROL ON THEIR PROPERTY AMONG MIDDLE AND LOWER CLASSES (TURIN 17-18TH CENTURIES)

12.30
FINAL DISCUSSION & PRESENTATION OF FUTURE CONFERENCES OF THE NETWORK

For further information please contact:
annette.cremer@geschichte.uni-giessen.de
and
ziegler@ghil.ac.uk