IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 1317: Abbots, Jews, and Other Christians Go to Court: Emotion, Drama, and Politics of Trials
Wednesday 12 July 2006, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Texas Medieval Association |
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| Organiser: | Sally N. Vaughn, Department of History, University of Houston, Texas |
| Moderator/Chair: | Patricia Torpis, University of St Thomas, Texas |
| Paper 1317-a | Preserving its Patrimony: The Cases at Court of St Etienne, Caen (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1317-b | Drama in the Courtroom: The Abbey of Bec at Court (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1317-c | Jews and Christians in the 13th-Century English Courtroom (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Law, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This session will document the uses of law by the successive abbots of Bec and Caen as they fought in the courts to preserve their lands, privileges and customary rights, whether income producing of independence preserving. Often these cases were described in a setting of high drama and fervant emotion. The customs of these abbatial court trials later migrated to Canterbury with Lanfranc and Anselm. English court drama in the 13th century involving Jews & Christians presents a later courtroom development. |