Andrea Griesebner – författare

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.

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.

Der Band stellt die Frage nach dem Dispositiv frühneuzeitlichen Rechts. Historisch situiert in der altbayerischen Geschichte erlauben die Studien zu Streitigkeiten zwischen Untertanen und Obrigkeiten um wechselseitige Aufgaben, Verpflichtungen und Berechtigungen Einsichten in die Formung von politischen Streitverfahren in der Vormoderne. Untersucht im herrschaftlichen Spannungsfeld des konfliktreichen Zusammenspiels von Aktion und Argument werden überlokal gültige Konzepte von Freiheit, Nahrung und Eigentum historisch greifbar und in ihrer Bedeutung für die aktuelle Debatte um Grundrechte erkennbar.Der Band umfasst neun Aufsätze, die in sehr unterschiedlichen Kontexten entstanden und zwischen 1987 und 2007 zum ersten Mal publiziert worden sind. Gemeinsam ist ihnen die Orientierung auf Grundrechte in vormodernen ländlichen Gesellschaften und Verfahren zu deren Sicherung bzw. Durchsetzung. Orientiert an Fragen der politischen Ökonomie des herrschaftlichen Alltags vereinigt die Autorin in ihren Studien Aspekte aus Bereichen der Rechts- und Verfassungsgeschichte, der Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte sowie der Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte.