IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1030: Articulating Legal and Political Boundaries, 1050-1350, I: Jurisdiction and Community
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | AHRC Project 'The Community of the Realm in Scotland, 1249-1424' / BA Network 'Jurisdiction, Legal Community & Political Discourse, 1050-1250' |
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Organisers: | Danica Summerlin, Department of History, University of Sheffield Alice Taylor, Department of History, King's College London |
Moderator/Chair: | Chris Wickham, Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
Paper 1030-a | Jurisdictional Boundaries in England, 1000-1200 (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 1030-b | The Perceptions of Urban Legal Boundaries in Semi-Urban 14th-Century Scandinavia (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Law, Political Thought |
Paper 1030-c | Non-Christian Communities, Political Crisis, and the Limits of Royal Authority: Fueros North of the Duero River, 1108-1194 (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy, Religious Life |
Abstract | This is the first session in a strand which aims to problematise the 'Grand Narrative' of legal development in the central Middle Ages in Europe. Traditional narratives have stressed either the growth of papal and imperial claims to pan-European legal supremacy or, the converse, how the developing polities created their own 'national laws'. This strand of sessions examines how legal communities were defined against one another (and for what purposes) and how litigants, lawyers, and politicians used and negotiated competing legal traditions. The first session concentrates on the delineation of jurisdictions (religious, urban, or public), how far these borders represented particular communities, and circumstances which prompted increased attention being given to jurisdictional autonomy. |