IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 812: The Roman Legal Heritage between Continuity and Reformation, II: Law in Practice
Tuesday 7 July 2015, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Projet Volterra, University College London |
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| Organiser: | R. W. Benet Salway, Department of History, University College London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Michael H. Crawford, Department of History, University College London |
| Paper 812-a | Justinian between Rome and Ravenna in the Ottonian Renaissance (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Language and Literature - Latin, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 812-b | Peter Crassus and the Legal Renovatio of the 11th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Language and Literature - Latin, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 812-c | Contract Law in the Canon Law Collections of the Pre-Gregorian Reform: Towards Freedom of Contract? (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Language and Literature - Latin, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | This session discusses the theme of the Roman legal heritage on the cusp of the explosion of interest in and use of Roman law and the Justinianic codification, which led in due course to the establishment of a pre-eminent law school at Bologna and the canonization of the Vulgate text in the 12th century. The papers of this session focus specifically on the knowledge and exploitation of Roman law in secular and ecclesiastical collections, the use or manipulation of Roman law in legal disputes or documents in lay and ecclesiastical contexts, and the existence or nature of legal expertise or specialization during this period. |