IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 1724: Framing Murder in the Early Medieval Legal Imagination

Thursday 5 July 2018, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:	Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Organiser:	Thomas Gobbitt, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Moderator/Chairs:	Clemens Gantner, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien Alice Rio, New College, University of Oxford
Paper 1724-a	Legal Prologues and the Justification of Anglo-Saxon Law Codes (Language: English) Arendse Lund, Department of English, University College London Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Law, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1724-b	Murder, Killing, and Intent in the Lombard Laws (Language: English) Thomas Gobbitt, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1724-c	'Cantus de fontibus romanis': Roman Legal Thought on Caedes, Homicidium, Dolus, and Culpa (Language: English) Jaqueline Bemmer, Institut für Römisches Recht und Antike Rechtsgeschichte, Universität Wien Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Law
Abstract	Multiple forms and means of homicide are addressed across the medieval laws, from accidental killings through to the deliberate, as well as the furtive and secretive. This panel considers multiple perspectives in a number of specific legal texts/cultures, specifically Anglo-Saxon Lombard and Roman to examine the differing ways that law-givers and legal thinkers approach unnatural deaths. In doing so, we take such killings as a starting point, to investigate the framing of murder in the medieval legal imagination, in relation to legal dogma, to interdependencies of culpability and intent, and to literary and ideological constructs of law.