In the Seminar we will focus on the social and legal role of women and families by means of studying a selection of edited and non-edited legal documents from Egypt (Ṭutūn) and the Iberian Peninsula. Special attention would be given to documents where emotions come to the surface. By having a glance into feelings within family relations, when someone is facing death, making a donation or expressing the own religion and political loyalty, the universality of human nature would be explored, which, at the same time, would shed light upon commonalities among specific societies and religious communities across space and time.
On the other hand, legal rules put into practice would give the opportunity to compare the congruences and incongruences of theory and practice of the law. Moreover, the „mestizaje“ of islamic and Christian laws would be track down especially in Arabic Christian documentos of Toledo.
- Trainer/in: Rosario Daga Portillo