IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 718: Threats and Insults
Tuesday 11 July 2006, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Gerhard Jaritz, Institut für Realienkunde, Universität Salzburg, Krems / Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest |
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Moderator/Chair: | Juhan Kreem, Tallinn City Archives |
Paper 718-a | Licensed to Insult: Goading Women in Old Norse Society (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Women’s Studies |
Paper 718-b | Name-Calling in Late Medieval Central European Court Records (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Gender Studies, Law, Literacy and Orality, Social History |
Abstract | Verbal insults and threats played an important role in a variety of medieval sources: in any evidence about dispute and quarrel, in court records, in literature, etc. The session aims at showing this variety, differences between them, and uniform patterns that may be found in very distinct sources. |