IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 126: The Materiality of Law Manuscripts, I: Systematization and Compilation of Legal Manuscripts
Monday 1 July 2019, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Project 'Transformations of Medieval Law', Bergen Research Foundation / Universitetet i Bergen |
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| Organiser: | Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen, Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier, Universitetet i Bergen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Elizabeth Walgenbach, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Reykjavík |
| Paper 126-a | The Lübeck Law Codex of Albrecht von Bardewik, c. 1294 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Language and Literature - German, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 126-b | Nicolaus de Ausmo's Supplementum Summae Pisanellae Manuscript: The Scribe, Reader, and User of the Codex (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 126-c | The Evolution of the Compilation of Leiðangr Law in Medieval Scandinavia (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | This session aims to explore the compilation and systematization of manuscripts containing legal texts. Law codes circulated in manuscript form bound into manuscript books with other texts, often those related to legal matters, to form compilations. The choice and order of texts in many manuscripts can tell us something about the cultural context of the law, and how the law was understood, applied and interpreted. Law codes themselves can also be systematised, introducing, for example, linear lines of thought to the text, and aids such as indices and rubrics. This helps us understand the tradition and shaping of the law and innovations in its codicological transmission. |