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IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 516: Legal Texts and Their Users, I: Using Law in Medieval Europe

Tuesday 3 July 2018, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:Iuris Canonici Medii Aevi Consociatio (ICMAC)
Organiser:Kathleen Cushing, Department of History, Keele University
Moderator/Chair:Anne J. Duggan, Department of History, King's College London
Paper 516-aA Tradition of Canon Law in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland?: A Case Study
(Language: English)
Roy Flechner, School of History, University College Dublin
Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 516-bUsing Canon Law in Late 9th-Century Italy
(Language: English)
Michael Heil, Department of History, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 516-cThomas the Wolf versus Richard of Abingdon, c. 1292-94: A Case Study on Arguments Based in Written Law
(Language: English)
Sarah White, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews
Index terms: Administration, Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Law
Abstract

This session focuses on the use of canon law by a variety of clerics and in a variety of contexts and seeks to address how and why readers approached and used legal arguments from early medieval Britain, Ireland, and Italy.