Event Description
As we turn from institutions to families, a different social history of early modern academic knowledge emerges. Celibacy was the norm in northern European universities until the late fifteenth century, when it began to erode. As new types of family households emerged, domestic arrangements had to be renegotiated, but what appears to be a sharp break between scholarly celibacy and marriage takes on a different shape when we consider kinship practices. It turns out to be one aspect of a much broader process of transformation that involved both the relationships between multiple households and their internal organization.
Event Speaker
Gadi Algazi, Professor of History at Tel Aviv University
Event Information
Free and open to the public; registration required. For more information, please visit the event webpage or email [email protected]. Please visit the Heyman’s Center website for directions.
Hosted by the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University.
