IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 703: Origin, Usage, and Functionality of the Frankish leges
Tuesday 2 July 2013, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Sonderforschungsbereich 700 'Governance in Räumen begrenzter Staatlichkeit', Freie Universität Berlin |
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| Organiser: | Lukas Bothe, Sonderforschungsbereich 700, Freie Universität Berlin |
| Moderator/Chair: | Stefan Esders, Geschichte der Spätantike und des frühen Mittelalters, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin |
| Paper 703-a | Isidorus Hispalensis and the Lex Salica (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 703-b | Let 'Em Pay or Hang 'Em High?: Tackling Theft and Robbery in Merovingian Legal Sources (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Law, Social History |
| Paper 703-c | Traces of the Frankish King in the Lex Baiuvariorum (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Law, Military History |
| Abstract | This session explores the wide range of present studies in Frankish legal history. It presents different ways of addressing sources which appear rather dull at first glance. Looking at manuscript tradition Magalie Coumert finds a pattern of Isidorus Hispalensis excerpts regularly copied with the Lex Salica which may be telling of the idea and teaching of justice among Carolingian elites. Lukas Bothe asks for the functionality of Frankish law by analysing varying approaches to theft and robbery in Merovingian legal sources. Picking up on another prologue which states royal authorship for the laws, Stephan Ridder is looking at royal authority tangible in the frontier law of the Lex Baiuvariorum. |