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IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 1236: Voices of Law, III: Memory, Textuality, and the Recording of the Law

Wednesday 4 July 2018, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:Voices of Law: Language, Text & Practice
Organiser:Jenny Benham, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University
Moderator/Chair:Matthew McHaffie, Department of History, King's College London
Paper 1236-aThe Use of Memory in Law of Gulaþing
(Language: English)
Miriam Tveit, Fakultetet for Samfunnsvitenskap, Nord universitet
Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Law
Paper 1236-bPragmatism and Intertextual Dependencies in the Revisions of Frankish Law, 6th-9th Centuries
(Language: English)
Lukas Bothe, Sonderforschungsbereich 700, Freie Universität Berlin
Index terms: Law, Social History
Paper 1236-cEarly Kentish Law and the Development of the Kingdom of Kent
(Language: English)
Courtnay Konshuh, Department of History, St Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan
Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Historiography - Medieval, Law
Abstract

The third of four Voices of Law panels on memory and the law, this panel focuses on the interplay of memory, textuality, and the way that laws were recorded and codified in the medieval period.