Gender and Divorce in Europe: 1600 – 1900: A Praxeological Perspective

Cover\nHalf Title\nSeries Page\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nTable of Contents\nList of Tables\nAcknowledgments\nList of Contributors\nChapter 1: Introduction\n	1.1 The Divorce of Marriage\n	1.2 Regulation of the Divorce Consequences\n	1.3 Making a Living\n	1.4 Well-Being\n	1.5 Organization of the Volume\n	1.6 Conclusions\n	References\nChapter 2: Women and Work\n	2.1 The Work Repertoires of Ever-Married Women\n	2.2 The Status as Wife\n	2.3 Conclusions\n		Archival Sources\n	Notes\n	References\nPart I: Divorce from Bed and Board\n	Chapter 3: Separated Beds – Interwoven Property: Separation and Divorce in the Habsburg Monarchy between the mid-16th and the mid-19th Centuries\n		3.1 Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction\n		3.2 Separation and Divorce Grounds\n		3.3 Regulation of the Consequences of Separation and Divorce\n		3.4 Marriage Property Regime\n		3.5 Secular Jurisdiction\n		3.6 Matrimonial Property and Inheritance Law\n		3.7 Marriage Contracts and Divorce Settlements\n		3.8 Conclusions\n		Archival Sources\n		Notes\n		References\n	Chapter 4: Separating Persons and Property in Early Modern English Marriages\n		4.1 Coverture and Continuities in Divorce Law through the Reformation\n		4.2 Support for a Separated Wife during Her Husband’s Life\n		4.3 Support for a Separated Wife after Her Husband’s Death\n		4.4 Case Study: The Two “Ladies Powys”\n		4.5 Conclusions\n		Archival Sources\n			The National Archives, Kew\n			Parliamentary Archives\n		Notes\n		References\n	Chapter 5: Divorce in Early Modern Bilbao\n		5.1 Divorce Cases in Bilbao\n		5.2 Witnesses and the Parish Priest\n		5.3 Types of Marriage\n		5.4 Matrimonial Property Regime and Marriage Contract\n		5.5 Families\n		5.6 The End of the Process\n		5.7 Conclusions\n		Archival Sources\n		Notes\n		References\n	Chapter 6: Judicial Separation and Its Material Effects in France during the 16th and 17th Centuries\n		6.1 Forms of Marriage Exchanges and the Judicial Interruption or Transformation of These Exchanges\n		6.2 Various Ways to Leave One’s Husband or Wife\n		6.3 The Effects of Separation on the Community of Property and the Dowry\n		6.4 The Case of the Separation: Pommereu v. Bernard\n		6.5 The Actors in the Marital Dispute and the Internal and External Context of Their Lineage\n		6.6 The Actors’ Strategies in Trial Settlements and Social Situations\n		6.7 Conclusions\n		Archival Sources\n		Notes\n		References\n	Chapter 7: Interwoven Ecclesiastical and Civil Divorce Trials: A Venetian Case Study (1785)\n		7.1 Exceptional Sources\n		7.2 A Complex Family and Financial Context: Aristocratic Discipline and Breaking Points\n		7.3 A Particularly (In)tense Legal Context: Jurisdictionalism v. Curialism\n		7.4 The Separation Procedure According to the 1782 Decree: Proceedings and Gender\n		7.5 The Wife’s Strategy: Voice, Virtue, and Wardrobe\n		7.6 The Husband’s Defense: Paper, Proceedings, and Progeniture\n		7.7 Conclusions\n		Archival Sources\n		Notes\n		References\n	Chapter 8: Divorce during the Concordat at the Marriage Courts of Prague and Trent (1857–1868)\n		8.1 The Concordat and Marriage Regulations\n		8.2 Data from the Archival Collections of Trent and Prague\n		8.3 Case Studies in Prague and Trent\n		8.4 1868: The End of the Ecclesiastical Marriage Courts of Trent and Prague?\n		8.5 Conclusions\n		Archival Sources\n		Notes\n		References\n	Chapter 9: Material Matters: Dissolution of Economic Ties in the Context of Divorces in Rural Lower Austria in the 1920s and 1930s\n		9.1 Juliane and Josef Grabler (1919–1935)\n		9.2 Marie and Johann Himmelbauer (1887–1922)\n		9.3 Barbara and Karl Fischer (1911–1920)\n		9.4 Katharina and Adolf Gassner (1914–1919)\n		9.5 Theresia and Martin Wimmer (1934–1937)\n		9.6 Conclusions\n		Archival Sources\n		Notes\n		References\nPart II: Divorce with Dissolution of the Marriage\n	Chapter 10: Enduring Animosity: Negotiating Post-Separation Conflicts in the German County of Lippe (17th and 18th Centuries)\n		10.1 Legal Contexts\n		10.2 Post-separation Conflicts in the Mirror of Legal Practice: The Case of Anna Dorothea Küster v. Johann Adolf Wippermann (1705–1706)\n		10.3 Custody of the Children\n		10.4 Maintenance and Property\n		10.5 Life after Separation\n		10.6 Conclusions\n		Archival Sources\n		Notes\n		References\n	Chapter 11: The Indistinct Line between Marriage and Divorce: The Ambiguous Nature of Marital Status in the 17th-Century Ottoman Empire\n		11.1 Married or Divorced?: Marriage in absentia\n		11.2 Ambiguity of the Marital Status: Use of Witnesses, Absence of Marriage Contracts\n		11.3 Ambiguity Due to Conditional Divorce\n		11.4 Ambiguity of the Divorce Type: Talâk or Hul’ ?\n		11.5 Conclusions\n		Archival Sources\n		Notes\n		References\n	Chapter 12: The Influence of Islamic Law on Greek Orthodox Divorce under Ottoman Rule\n		12.1 The Orthodox and Islamic Divorces\n		12.2 Orthodox Christians in Islamic Courts\n		12.3 The Orthodox Church Reforms\n		12.4 Conclusions\n		Notes\n		References\n	Chapter 13: The Economy of Islamic Divorce in Habsburg Bosnia and Herzegovina (1878–1918)\n		13.1 Islamic Legal Architecture under Habsburg Rule\n		13.2 Divorce as an Economic Claim\n		13.3 Disputing Money and Goods\n		13.4 Regulating Divorce and Poverty\n		13.5 Enforcing an Economic Regime\n		13.6 Conclusions\n		Archival Sources\n		Notes\n		References\n	Chapter 14: New Possibilities – New Practices? Divorces of Jewish Couples under the Purview of the Austrian Civil Code in the 19th Century: Provisions, Agreements, and Property Issues\n		14.1 Legal Provisions\n		14.2 The Attractiveness of the New Model of a “Divorce from Bed and Board” for Jewish Wives and Husbands\n		14.3 The Dual Nature of Consensuality within Jewish Marriage Law and the Attempted Practices of Circumvention\n		14.4 Provisions in Marriage Contracts\n		14.5 Mutual Negotiation of the Consent to Dissolve Marriages\n		14.6 Conclusions\n		Archival Sources\n		Notes\n		References\nGlossary\nName Index\nSubject Index