IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 2317: Changing Forests: Forest Management in Long Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, IV

Organiser:	David Wallace-Hare, Department of Classics, University of Toronto
Moderator/Chair:	Chelsea Shields-Más, Department of History, University of York
Paper 2317-a	The Early Irish Law Tract Fidbretha: 'Tree-Judgments' (Language: English) Charlene Eska, Department of English Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Index terms: Economics - Rural, Language and Literature - Celtic, Law
Paper 2317-b	Forest and Tree Use and Misuse in the Visigothic Code (Language: English) David Wallace-Hare, Department of Classics, University of Toronto Index terms: Economics - Rural, Language and Literature - Latin, Law
Abstract	Forests often represented border areas between cultivated land and wilderness and typically contained key resources the ownership of which was contested and controlled. As hubs of changing and contested resources, forests expanded, contracted, and disappeared for a variety of reasons in the premodern age. The Changing Forests session series provides a cross-disciplinary approach examining forest use in a less studied but crucially important period for understanding forest dynamics, Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (3rd-10th century CE). Session IV approaches the theme of changing forests from the perspective of legal issues surrounding the forest in Roman, Visigothic, and Old Irish law.