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IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 1128: New Directions in Charter Studies, II: Charters, Law, and Custom, (ii)

Wednesday 13 July 2011, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies / Haskins Society for Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Angevin & Viking History / Centre Michel de Boüard (CRAHAM - UMR 6273), Université de Caen Basse-Normandie
Organiser:Kathryn Dutton, Department of History, University of Glasgow
Moderator/Chair:John Hudson, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews
Paper 1128-aLegal Writs and Legal Strategies in the Anglo-Norman Era
(Language: English)
Nicholas Karn, Department of History, University of Southampton
Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1128-bCharters of Subjection and Restoration in the Angevin Crisis of 1215-17
(Language: NULL)
Hugh Doherty, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics
Abstract

In this session, Alice Taylor and Nicholas Karn will examine the use of writs/brieves in England and Scotland from the Anglo-Norman era to the fourteenth century, investigating the use of these documents in authorising court action in heterogeneous judicial systems. Hugh Doherty considers the production, form and function of published and newly-discovered charters drafted on behalf of defeated rebels by the chanceries of King John and the minority regime between 1215 and 1217.