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Independent Actors? Husbands and Wives in the Jewish Courts of Medieval Germany

Medieval Jews turned to the Jewish courts of Northern Europe to adjudicate a range of personal and communal disputes, but marital conflicts rank high among the issues that brought them before the bench. How did judges negotiate discord between spouses, and what strategies did men and women develop to achieve favorable ends? More specifically, how did the financial constraints that Jewish law imposed upon married women impact their ability to litigate against their spouses or other opponents?

 

Dr. Rachel Furst is a visiting researcher at the Arye Maimon-Institut für Geschichte der Juden at the University of Trier. She received her Ph.D. from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has held post-doctoral fellowships at Hebrew University and Freie Universitaet Berlin. She is currently working on a monograph that examines women's litigation and legal activities in the Jewish courts of medieval Ashkenaz.

 

Universität zu Köln, Hauptgebäude, Hörsaal XI b

Dienstag, 8. November 2016, 19 Uhr

 

Veranstaltet vom Martin-Buber-Institut für Judaistik der Universität zu Köln in Kooperation mit dem Zentrum für Mittelalter-Studien.