IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 1101: The Gallows, Hell and God's High Seat: Judgement in Anglo-Saxon England
Wednesday 16 July 2003, 11.15-12.45
Organiser: | Victoria Whitworth, Department of English, Trinity & All Saints, University of Leeds |
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Paper 1101-a | New Evidence for Judicial Organisation in Early England and its Implications (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Law |
Paper 1101-b | Aspects of the Judicial Process in Late Anglo-Saxon Manuscript Illumination (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Law, Religious Life |
Paper 1101-c | Facing the Final Judge in Bodley Laud Misc. 482 (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Language and Literature - Old English, Law, Religious Life |
Abstract | This session tackles issues of law and judgement from three angles. Reynold's paper looks at the origin and location of execution cemeteries from the 7th and 8th centuries. Semple focuses on the way Hell was imagined in the Harley Psallter. Thompson analyses the expression of the contractual salvific relationship between priest and parishioner in an 11th-century penitential context. |