IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 1307: Sessions in Honour of Stephen D. White, II: Medieval Legal Processes and Disputing
Wednesday 7 July 2021, 16.30-18.00
| Organisers: | Richard E. Barton, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Tracey L. Billado, Department of History, Queens College, City University of New York |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Julie A. Hofmann, Department of History, Shenandoah University, Virginia |
| Paper 1307-a | Disputes over Customs in Central Medieval France (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Law |
| Paper 1307-b | Visigothic Law and the Settlement of Disputes in Northern Iberia, c. 900-1100 (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Law |
| Paper 1307-c | Pleading with Demons: Possession and Property in 14th-Century Brittany (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Law |
| Abstract | The second of the sessions in honor of Stephen D. White demonstrates the importance of processual, case-study approaches to the study of disputes and law, approaches White pioneered in medieval history. Billado uses 11th-century disputes over customs, tithes, and parish revenues in 'greater-Anjou' to argue that medieval disputants knew how to process their conflicts. Safronova examines the role of Visigothic law in the settlement of disputes in central medieval León, highlighting the importance of unwritten legal rules and the relationship of such rules to other normative systems. Malegam discusses an inquest into the life and miracles of Ivo of Kermartin, using the source to demonstrate the emergence of certain public legal institutions in late medieval Brittany that transformed expectations of saintly advocacy. |