Searching for Concubinage: Notarial Registers and Concubinary Couples in Medieval Mediterranean Port Cities

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Lane History Corner, Room 307

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Michelle Armstrong-Partida (Emory University) is a scholar of gender and sexuality, women’s history, and the sociocultural interactions of Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and the Mediterranean. She is the author of Defiant Priests: Domestic Unions, Violence, and Clerical Masculinity in Fourteenth-Century Catalunya (Cornell, 2017) as well as articles on masculinity and sexual violence.  Her current project is a comparative study of concubinous unions among the peasantry, urban poor, and merchant class across the late medieval Mediterranean.  Armstrong-Partida organizes the working group, Race & Gender in the Global Middle Ages, sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and the Department of French and Italian.

Coffee & pastries will be served.