Groupe de Recherche d’Histoire (GRHis), Univ. de Rouen Normandie, Institut Univ. de France: Gender Differences in the History of European Legal Cultures: 8th Conference; Organizers: Anna Bellavitis and Beatrice Zucca Micheletto

Venue: University of Rouen Normandie, Mont St Aignan
Time: 17-18 November 2016
Proposals by 30 July 2016

The aim of the conference will be to analyse the consequences of different European juridical systems on the development of specific economic roles for men and women. At the core of the comparative analysis, at the European scale, there will be the different economic evolutions of European regions in the early modern and modern times. Customary laws characterized Northern Europe and Roman law characterized Southern Europe, but at the local level there were many differences, depending on urban statutes, craft rules, family structures, political and economic systems.

Some gender historians of early modern economy applied to early modern societies categories that had been created by the economists of emerging countries in order to challenge the relationships between women’s economic rights, marital economy and economic development. In a provocative and stimulating article, Amy L. Erickson suggested a relationship between the development of English capitalism, in the 18th century, and the fact that married women, under the regime of the “common law”, lost all their properties. Read more … (PDF)