IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 211: Medieval Intellectuals and the International Traffic of Ideas
Monday 12 July 2010, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Cornell Medieval Studies |
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| Organiser: | Paul R. Hyams, Department of History, Cornell University / Independent Scholar, Oxford |
| Moderator/Chair: | Anthony Musson, Centre for Legal History Research, University of Exeter |
| Paper 211-a | Case Law in 13th-Century England: What the Bracton Author Learned from Roman and Canon Law (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Law |
| Paper 211-b | From Legal Geography to Creative Commons: Laws and Customs on the Move in the 13th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Law, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Political Thought |
| Paper 211-c | Scholasticism in Practice: The Legal and Spiritual Consequences of a 14th-Century International Debate over the Nature of Human Freedom (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Philosophy, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching |
| Abstract | Travel and exploration take place as much in the mind as they represent the movement of bodies from one place to another. This session will look at this facet of 'discovery' by examining the travel and trade of ideas during the High Middle Ages. Intellectuals and scholars discussed, debated, borrowed, traded, and disseminated ideas throughout this period. Sharing ideas can create links and networks, but it can also create pressure to define and differentiate. This session will focus on these two possible effects of discovery- internationalization and isolation- in the contexts of the treatise, the courtroom, and the confessional. |