IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 113: Legal Texts and their Readers: Using Law in Medieval Europe, I
Monday 1 July 2019, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Iuris Canonici Medii Aevi Consociatio (ICMAC) |
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| Organiser: | Kathleen Cushing, Department of History, Keele University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Danica Summerlin, Department of History, University of Sheffield |
| Paper 113-a | Secular and Religious in the 10th Century: The Libri duo of Regino of Prüm (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 113-b | Reform and the Use of Law in 11th-Century Church Councils (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 113-c | The Use of the First Papal Laws (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Law, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | The last two decades have seen the return to prominence of the overarching question of continuity and change across medieval canon law, helping to understand who had access to law, and how they chose to employ it. This session looks to the earlier middle ages, and in particular the critical question of how, and how far, individual types of canon law text were created and used in the period before c. 1100. Understanding the disparity between these elements permits us to understand the nature of medieval canon law and to draw out conclusions surrounding its real and perceived force. |