Date/Time
Date(s) - 2 Mar 2012
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Location
The CUNY Graduate Center
Category(ies) No Categories
Seminars in the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, Undoing Marriage Seminar
Marriage in Crisis
Join us for two presentations: Introduction to Domestic Tensions, National Anxieties, by Kristin Celello, and Husbands, Wives, and Adultery in Late-Medieval Northern France, by Sara McDougall.
Kristin Celello is assistant professor of history at Queens College, CUNY. She is the author of Making Marriage Work: A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States (UNC Press, 2009).
Sara McDougall is an assistant professor of history at John Jay College (CUNY). Her book, Bigamy and Christian Identity in Late-Medieval Champagne will appear with University of Pennsylvania Press in March, 2012. A specialist in late-medieval canon law and legal practice, she has broad research interests in the history of marriage and legal history.
Both papers are posted on the seminar website here.