IMC 2008: Sessions

Session 522: Charters: A Place for God, Law, and Nature

Sponsor:	School of History, University of Liverpool
Organiser:	Herwig Weigl, Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung / Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien
Moderator/Chair:	Brigitte Resl, School of Histories, Languages & Cultures, University of Liverpool
Paper 522-a	Records and Resistance: Control of Villein Land Transfers in 14th-Century England (Language: English) Charlotte Harrison, School of History, University of Liverpool Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Economics - Rural, Law
Paper 522-b	The Garden in the Charter: Metaphors of Nature in 15th-Century Polish Charters (Language: English) Anna Adamska, Onderzoekinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Theology
Paper 522-c	Diplomatics and the Natural World: Is There Anything to Say? (Language: English) Herwig Weigl, Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung / Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History
Abstract	The session examines various aspects of charters: as physical objects transporting law, as source for the perception of nature and/or the use of natural imagery in religious contexts.