IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 623: Laws and Practice in the Medieval Far North
Tuesday 10 July 2012, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Creating the New North Research Programme, Universitetet i Tromsø |
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Organiser: | Richard Holt, Institutt for historie og religionsvitenskap, Universitetet i Tromsø - Norges Arktiske Universitetet |
Moderator/Chair: | Richard Holt, Institutt for historie og religionsvitenskap, Universitetet i Tromsø - Norges Arktiske Universitetet |
Paper 623-a | Imposing the Law on Northern Scandinavia and Finland, 1100-1400 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Law |
Paper 623-b | Attempting to Regulate Medieval Norway's Towns and Trade (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Law, Social History |
Paper 623-c | Tension in the Boundary between Medieval Norwegian Inheritance Law and the Reality of Marriage Contracts (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Law, Social History |
Paper 623-d | Sorcery and Witchcraft Legislation in Scandinavia, 1200-1600 (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Mentalities, Religious Life |
Abstract | The emerging central authority in Norway and the other northern lands developed legislation to meet existing needs and to control existing situations. At the same time, new situations arose that demanded regulation: colonization of new areas; the economic and social developments associated with a growing commercial economy and urbanization; a new Christian viewpoint on traditional practices such as sorcery. There was social resistance to legislation in all these areas, and not least in the discrepancy between laws of inheritance and prevailing social practices and family strategies of land ownership. |