Symposium: Litigating Women: Negotiating Justice in Courts of Law, c.1100–c.1750, 28.-29.06.2017, Swansea

header2AHRC-funded collaborative project ‚Women Negotiating the Boundaries of Justice: Britain and Ireland, c.1100-c.1750‘ (Web)

Time: 28.-29.06.2017
Venue: Swansea University
Registration by: 31.05.2017
As part of the Projekt, and in conjunction with Swansea University’s 11th annual ‚Symposium by the Sea‘, this two-day event will explore women’s access to justice and use of the lawcourts in Britain and Continental Europe in the medieval and early modern periods. With speakers ranging from senior academics to postgraduate students, the organizers have dedicated ’new researcher‘ sessions for postgraduates, three keynotes, and a host of fascinating topics that cover, among other things, noblewomen’s civil litigation in medieval England, Ireland and Normandy, German and French divorce suits in the Revolutionary period, and women’s appeals to the Court of Sequestrations during the English Civil War.
Keynotes are:

  • Janet Loengard, Moravian College, Pennsylvania: ‚Heiresses, widows, felons and others: thirteenth-century women in the king’s court‘.
  • Sara Butler, The Ohio State University: ‚Women and criminal law in medieval England‘.
  • Julie Hardwick, The University of Texas at Austin: ‚The first time: young workers, consensual relationships, and the shift to physical intimacy in Old Regime France‘.

For a programme, registration form, contact details and other information, go to the website (Link)