Gender and Divorce in Europe: 1600 - 1900 (ePub)

Andrea Griesebner is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Vienna. She served as vice chair from 2014 to 2017 and as chair of the department from 2017 to 2020. She obtained her PhD in 1998 and her Habilitation in 2001 in the field of Early Modern Gender and Criminal History at the University of Vienna. In recent years, her work and publications have focused on divorce and the consequences of divorce for Catholic couples. As principal investigator, she directed three third-party funded research projects on this topic. These were supported by the Austrian Science Fund and by the Anniversary Fund of the National Bank of Austria between 2011 and 2020.

Evdoxios Doxiadis is an Associate Professor in History at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada. His research is on Greek, Balkan, and Mediterranean history with a focus on the 18th and 19th centuries and a particular interest in questions of gender, law, state formation, and minorities. He has published two monographs: The Shackles of Modernity: Women, Property, and the Transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Modern Greek State 1750-1850 (2011) and State, Nationalism and the Jewish Communities of Modern Greece (2018), and a co-edited volume with Aimee Placas entitled Living under Austerity: Greek Society in Crisis (2018).