Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga
holds a full professorship in American Studies at CY Cergy Paris Université, France. Her research considers family, inheritance, and emigration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is interested in family strategies and mechanisms to maintain family patrimony intact and secure decent emigration to excluded sons and daughters. Her approach involves the gender, micro-longitudinal, historical demographic analysis of family behaviours to explain inheritance practices and emigration to the United States. She has published 17 articles in journals, 21 chapters in books, and edited or co-edited five books. See:
Laura Casella
is Professor of Early Modern and Gender History at the University of Udine. She was Visiting Professor (2011) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris and Marseille, and has given lectures and seminars at several French Universities. Her research focuses on the political and cultural role of élites, the history of border areas, family and gender history. Presently, she is working on everyday women’s writing in North Eastern Italy from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Her recent publications include Construire les liens de famille dans l’Europe moderne, edited with Anna Bellavitis and Dorit Raines (2013) and La famiglia aristocratica: una storia del potere, una storia domestica (2019).
Isabelle Chabot
is Associate Professor in Medieval History at the University of Padua and a specialist in social history and medieval family history. She focuses on the gender relations within kinship. She has also investigated the elaboration of family memory in late medieval Florence, dowry and inheritance rules, and practices of circulation and devolution of property between women and men from a comparative perspective, as well as the development of dotal charity between the Middle Ages and the early modern time. In addition, she looks at female poverty, women’s work, and the multiple activities of family survival, as well as the relationship between women and justice. Her publications include La dette des familles. Femmes, lignage et patrimoine à Florence aux XIVe et XVe siècles (2011), Ricostruzione di una famiglia. I Ciurianni di Firenze tra XII e XV secolo, con edizione critica del “Libro propio” di Lapo di Valore Ciurianni e successori
Siglinde Clementi
is Vice Director of the Competence Centre for Regional History at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, where she leads the research area gender and women’s history. Her research interests are gender and women’s history, microhistory, history of the body and of medicine in the early modern period, cultural history of birth and of nobility, regional history of Tyrol. She leads numerous research projects, such as “Wealth arrangements, gender relations and kinship in Tyrolean nobility in the early modern period” and the interdisciplinary project “‘Naturally’ relating to land. Mountain farming in the Alps – an ethnographic study”. Her publications include Körper, Selbst und Melancholie. Die Selbstzeugnisse des Landadeligen Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634–1710) (2017).
Simona Feci
is Associate Professor of Medieval and Modern Legal History at the University of Palermo’s Law Department. She was member of the Executive Board of the Società italiana delle storiche (Association of Italian Women Historians) (2014–2018) and was active as its President (2016–2020). She has published on the topics of women’s legal history, family history, history of justice and judicial systems in early modern Italy, and violence against women in the past. Her publications include Pesci fuor d’acqua. Donne a Roma in età moderna: diritti e patrimoni (2004), as editor with Laura Schettini, La violenza contro le donne nella storia. Contesti, linguaggi, politiche del diritto (secc. XV-XXI) (2017), and articles on marital lawsuits before the seventeenth-century S. Romana Rota (2010).
Ellinor Forster
is Assistant Professor at the Institute for History and European Ethnology at the University of Innsbruck. In 2015 she was Visiting Fellow for Humanities at the Silesian University in Opava (Czech Republic), in 2016/2017 Scholar at the Austrian Historical Institute in Rome, and in 2017/18 Senior Lecturer at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz. She has published on spatial concepts, cultural history of politics and administration, legal and gender history in the eighteenth and nineteenth century.
Andrea Griesebner
is History Professor at the University of Vienna. From 2014 to 2017 she acted as vice chair, and from 2017 to 2020 as chair, of the History Department. Between
Christian Hagen
is Research Associate at the University of Kiel. He studied Medieval and Modern History, Sociology and Political Sciences at the Universities of Kiel and Bologna. In 2013 he received his PhD in History on the medieval urbanisation of Tyrol and published it in 2015 with the title Fürstliche Herrschaft und kommunale Teilhabe. Die Städte der Grafschaft Tirol im Spätmittelalter. In 2014 and 2015 he was Research Associate of the project “Legal spaces and gender order as social processes in a trans-regional perspective” (Bolzano). This was followed by post-doc research for the project “Creditors and debtors: Christian and Jewish loan markets in late medieval German cities” at the University of Kiel. His further interests are Medieval economic, social, and cultural history, history of towns and urbanisation, European and regional history.
Margareth Lanzinger
is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna. Her work focuses on kinship, family and marriage, property and wealth, inheritance practices and marital property regimes, cultural history of administration, including a major comparative study of marriages between relatives. She has been Visiting Professor and guest lecturer at the Free University of Berlin, at the University of Hanover, and at the University of Siegen. She is a member of numerous international research networks, editorial teams, and working groups, including the international research network “Gender Differences in the History of European Legal Cultures”. Her publications include The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere (16th to 19th Century) (2020), co-edited with Joachim Eibach.
Janine Maegraith
is a social historian of early modern central Europe. 2014–2015 she was part of the research project “Legal spaces and gender order as social processes in a trans-regional perspective. Negotiating and stipulating property in urban and rural contexts of Southern Tyrol from the 15th to the early 19th century” (Südtiroler Wissenschaftsfonds) at the University of Innsbruck. Since 2016 she
Silvia Mattivi
graduated with a degree in Historical Studies from the University of Trento. Her thesis, supervised by Professor Giovanni Ciappelli, focused on a family book written between 1710 and 1821 and was awarded by the Autonomous Province of Trento as a “degree thesis recognised of great interest for the history of Trentino”. After that, she received her master’s degree in History of European Civilisation with a thesis focusing on the register compiled by the notary Antonio da Pomarolo between 1351 and 1357, supervised by Professor Emanuele Curzel. This thesis was chosen by the University of Trento as the “best degree thesis of the Faculty of Humanities for the academic year 2009–2010” and was also awarded by the Province of Trento. Results of the research concerning the register of Antonio da Pomarolo were reported in an article written by Silvia Mattivi and published in Studi Trentini 2012.
Beatrice Moring
joined the Cambridge Group for the History of Population in 1996. In 2007, after spending some years at the University of Essex, she became Associate Professor in Social and Economic History at the University of Helsinki. Her research interests are women and work, household and economy, inheritance, and social stratification. She has recently published a monograph Widows in European Economy and Society 1600–1920 (Boydell and Brewer, 2017); in 2012 she edited the volume Female Economic Strategies in the Modern World and, in 2019, the special issue Making the Invisible Visible of Historicka Demografie. Her current projects are a comparative publication on women and family property and a monograph on women in factory work and the first female industrial inspectors.
Craig Muldrew
is Professor of Early Modern Economic and Social History at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on two areas. The first is the investigation of the economic and social role of trust in the development of the market economy in England between 1500 and 1700. The second is the living standards and work of agricultural labourers in the early modern English economy. He
Regina Schäfer
studied History, Literature, Sociology, and Journalism at the Universities of Mainz (Germany) and Dijon (France). She is Research Associate at the Department of Late Medieval History and Comparative Regional Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. Her research interests primarily focus on social history in the fifteenth century (social mobility, nobility and rural life, legal practice). She was part of a team to edit and translate the court records of the village Ingelheim and is currently working on the project “Finance, Law, Administration and Government in late medieval towns: Aberdeen and Augsburg in comparison” (flag).
Georg Tschannett
studied History at the University of Vienna. In July 2015 he passed the viva for his PhD-thesis on Separations from Bed and Board in Vienna (1783–1850). His research foci are gender history and the history of law. From 2011 to 2015 he was a researcher for the project “Matrimony before the Court” at the University of Vienna. From 2015 to 2016 he worked at the follow up research project “Marriage Litigations from the 16th to the 19th Century. Regional and Social Differentiation,” both financed by the Austrian Research Fund (fwf). He works at the Federal Administrative Court of Austria since 2017.