IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1136: Voices of Law, II: Memory, Orality, and Legal Performance
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Voices of Law: Language, Text & Practice |
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Organiser: | Jenny Benham, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University |
Moderator/Chair: | Jenny Benham, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University |
Paper 1136-a | Compurgation as Legal Performance in 13th-Century Norway (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Social History |
Paper 1136-b | A Performance of Forgetting: Exploring Legal Stigmas in Early Medieval Scandinavia (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Law, Social History |
Paper 1136-c | Traces of Orality and Literacy in the Old Frisian Laws (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Dutch, Law |
Abstract | The second session in the Voices of Law series focuses on the interplay of memory and orality in the performance of law, focusing on Old Frisian and Scandinavian law from the early to high Middle Ages. Compurgation as legal performance, tracing elements of orality and literacy, and the question of selective memory - what was remembered and what was forgotten, and why - are explored in these three papers. |