IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 744: Law and Literature: The Truth in the Medieval Trials in Old French Epics and Romance
Tuesday 7 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Conseil Régional de la Région Centre Programme 'JUSLITTERA' |
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| Organiser: | Philippe Haugeard, Laboratoire Pouvoirs-Lettres-Normes, Université d'Orléans |
| Moderator/Chair: | Bernard Ribémont, Laboratoire Pouvoirs-Lettres-Normes, Université d'Orléans |
| Paper 744-a | La paix au détriment de la vérité: la leçon des arcanes procéduraux dans le Roman de Renart (Language: Français) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Law, Mentalities |
| Paper 744-b | Faux coupables et vrais imposteurs: L'usurpation d'identité face à la justice (Amis et Amiles, Berthe aus grans piés) (Language: Français) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Law, Mentalities |
| Paper 744-c | Accusation, preuve et vérité: Du Tristan de Béroul au Roman de la violette de Gerbert de Montreuil (Language: Français) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Law, Mentalities |
| Abstract | The question of the truth in the medieval justice appears sometimes quite similar as in our modern law courts but presents in fact some important differences concerning the procedure (accusation, charge of the proof, oath and ordeal) and the aim of trials (less to punish or establish the truth than to settle the conflicts for example). This session would like to study judicial procedures or trials in old French literature, on the one hand, to lighten the complexity of the medieval practice of justice and, on the other hand, to describe how literature makes use of this complexity. |