PRIVACY Seminar: Privacy and Marriage in the Early Modern Period

credit: Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Ill-Matched Couple, 1522, source: Wikimedia Commons

The Centre for Privacy Studies cordially invites you to attend the seminar Privacy and Marriage in the Early Modern Period.  Historians will discuss legal, social, religious, and political themes at the intersection of privacy and marriage in the early modern period.

Programme

Organizers: Paolo Astorri, Natacha Klein Käfer, and Natália da Silva Perez

Thursday, 21 April 2022 (all times are CET)

10h20 – 10h30

Mette Birkedal Bruun

Welcome Address

10h30 – 11h00

Natália da Silva Perez

Legislating Marriage and Sexual Reproduction in French Colonies: The Code Noir (1685 and 1724)

11h00 – 11h30

Louise Kallestrup

 

The experience of a royal bridal journey: Witchcraft and the wedding between Anna of Denmark and James VI

11h30 – 12h00

Cathleen Sarti

 

Erik XIV of Sweden as Serial Proposer in Sixteenth-Century Europe

12h00 – 13h00

Lunch for the speakers

Law Faculty canteen

13h00 – 13h30

Jessica Roitman

 

The Repercussions of Rumor: An adultery case from 18th century Curaçao

13h30 – 14h00

Paolo Astorri

 

The Reform of Clandestine Marriage Law in Sixteenth-Century Lutheran Saxony

14h00 – 14h30

Mette M. Ahlefeldt-Laurvig

“Whores and hussies shall not be churched”: Marriage and Church Discipline in Early Modern Denmark-Norway

14h30 – 14h45

BREAK

 

14h45 – 16h00

Discussion

 

Registration

To attend the seminar, please register here for in-person or online participation.