IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 130: Borders of the Law in Medieval Norway and Iceland
Monday 6 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | BFS-Project 'Transformations of Medieval Law', Trond Mohn Stiftelse / Universitetet i Bergen |
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| Organiser: | Julián Eduardo Valle, Humanistiske Fakultet Universitetet i Bergen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Synnøve Myking, Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier, Universitetet i Bergen |
| Paper 130-a | Non-Legal Texts in Old Norwegian Law Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 130-b | Common Features in the Design of Medieval Nordic Law Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 130-c | Law Will Tear Us Apart (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | In the last quarter of the 13th century, the Norwegian kings Hákon Hákonarson and Magnús Hákonarson extended their authority over the Norse communities in the North Atlantic. This period is characterized by the rich production of legal codes (Landslǫg and Jónsbók, among others) and aimed to create unified legal spaces for the Norwegian Empire. This session proposes an interdisciplinary approach to the development of legal compilations for borderline regions in pre-modern Norway and Iceland, with special emphasis on the production of vernacular legal manuscripts of medieval western Scandinavia. The aim is to illustrate how the conflicts faced by the integration process was manifested in the law. |