IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 326: The Materiality of Law Manuscripts, III: Versions and Transmission Strategies in Legal Manuscripts
Monday 1 July 2019, 16.30-18.00
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: | Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen, Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier, Universitetet i Bergen |
Paper 326-a | Manuscripts of Bishop Árni Þorláksson's Christian Law for Iceland (Kristinréttr Árna) (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Canon Law, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 326-b | The Preservation of Oaths in Medieval Scandinavian Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 326-c | The Tovačov Lawbook and the Transformations of the Provincial Law in the Medieval Czech Lands (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Abstract | This session aims to explore versions and transmission strategies in legal manuscripts, using the materiality of the legal texts as an entry point to the analysis. This includes an analysis of the context of legal texts within different manuscripts and the differences between these versions. Legal texts were also preserved in different languages, admitting an analysis of the origin and transmission history of the texts. This exploration of transmission strategy can also be extended to how the law code transmits information to the reader: what narrative format is best to convey legal knowledge, and how does this appear in manuscript form? |