IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 307: Law, Power, and Learning in the North: Presenting a New Paradigm for Studying the Danish Provincial Laws
Monday 7 July 2008, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | København Network for Medieval Legal History |
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| Organiser: | Mia Münster-Swendsen, Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, Københavns Universitet |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ditlev Tamm, Faculty of Law, Københavns Universitet |
| Paper 307-a | The King's Power to Legislate in 13th-Century Denmark (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 307-b | Learned Law and Secular Lawmaking: Legal Procedure in the Danish Provincial Laws (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Law, Political Thought |
| Paper 307-c | Explaining Danish Law to a Roman Cardinal-Legate, 1222 (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Law, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | The aim of this session is to shed new light on the formative phases in the codification of Danish law from three different, yet interconnected angles. Combining legal, political, and intellectual aspects, the themes covered range from the limits of royal legislative power in regard to the provincial assemblies, the question of how elements of Roman and Canon law were incorporated into the Danish legal system, and the manner in which peculiarities of Danish law, through the medium of Latin learning, were explained to an educated foreigner, the Cardinal legate Gregorius de Crescentio. Though the focus rests on Danish cases, the session will address questions that ought to be equally relevant to scholars studying the making of the legal order in other parts of Europe. |