Tuesday, February 4, 2025 5pm
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https://humanities.as.miami.edu/public-programs/edith-bleich-speaker-series/index.htmlPlease join the Center for the Humanities at the upcoming Edith Bleich Lecture Series featuring Professor Sara McDougall. Her current book is a microhistory that is part true crime, part medieval iteration of the timeless tale of a migrant woman from the countryside who struggles to survive in the big city, in this case Dijon towards the end of the Middle Ages. At that time, in the second half of the fifteenth century, in the midst of warfare, endemic disease, and political upheaval, Dijon's municipal authorities investigated all manner of crime and other wrongdoing. Women appeared in these investigations most often as victims or as witnesses, but also as accused of theft, violence, sex crimes, insults, and sorcery. McDougall’s presentation will draw upon these sources to make an investigation of another kind, one that asks what we can learn from these legal documents about this one woman’s life, but also about the interworkings of gender, religion, and justice in late medieval society.
Sara McDougall is Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and appointed to the faculty in Biography and Memoir, French, History, and Medieval Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. She studies gender and justice in the Middle Ages, with a focus on women’s encounters with legal and religious ideas in the society and culture of Medieval France. The author of two books, Bigamy and Christian Identity in Late-Medieval Champagne (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), and Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, c.800-1230 (Oxford, 2017), she has also co-edited special issues for Law & History Review and Gender & History on historical responses, infanticide and on marriage in global history, on marriage trials for Medieval People, and a six-volume Global History of Crime and Punishment with Bloomsbury Press. Recent articles examine punishing women for having sex, infanticide prosecutions, consequences of extramarital pregnancy, illegitimacy and the priesthood, and adultery prosecution in medieval France, as well as other writings on the family, marriage, gender, and crime. She has also written on these and other topics for Slate, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.
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