IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 106: Approaches to Late Medieval Court Records, I: Courts, Sources, and Social Reality
Monday 7 July 2014, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Center for Medieval Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam |
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| Organiser: | Frans Camphuijsen, Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Amsterdam, Universiteit van Amsterdam |
| Moderator/Chair: | Frans Camphuijsen, Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Amsterdam, Universiteit van Amsterdam |
| Paper 106-a | The Persecution of the 1381 English Rebellion in Central Court Records (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Local History, Social History |
| Paper 106-b | 'Waylaid and Threatened with an Axe': The Leiden Court Archives as a Mirror of Urban Life (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Law, Local History |
| Paper 106-c | Late Medieval Court Records of Dalmatian Cities (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Law, Social History |
| Abstract | The way late medieval court records are used by historians varies largely. However, an issue that always seems to reappear when working with these documents, is the relation between the court, its sources and social reality. What do the sources really show us? How much can we learn from them about past societies? And about the courts themselves? In this session, three scholars, working on court records from very different regions, will show us how they approach these sources in reconstructing past events, as well as the issues encountered in this attempt. |