IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 1232: Law, Regulations, and Society in Central and Eastern Europe, III: Custom and Code
Wednesday 11 July 2012, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University College London / Romanian Academy of Sciences |
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Organiser: | Christopher Nicholson, School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University College London |
Moderator/Chair: | Martyn Rady, School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University College London |
Paper 1232-a | Writing the Law in Bohemia and Hungary in the Later Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Political Thought |
Paper 1232-b | From Custom to Written Law: ius valachicum in the Banate (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
Paper 1232-c | The Methods of Physical Coercion Used in Judicial Inquiry in Wallachia and Moldavia (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Social History |
Abstract | The papers in this session largely concern the relationship between custom, code, and practice. The first paper will compare the methodology employed in the creation of centrally composed codes in Bohemia and Hungary. The second paper will examine the recording and development of the laws in the Banate region. The final paper aims to reconstruct the main methods of physical punishment used in judicial investigations in Wallachia and Moldavia, with the aim of revealing their customary origins. |