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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 625: Excession, II: Excess as a Form of Expression in Laical Fields of Action

Tuesday 6 July 2021, 11.15-12.45

Organisers:Robert Friedrich, German Historical Institute, Paris
Marie Jaros, Historisches Seminar, Universität Leipzig
Moderator/Chair:Araceli Rosillo-Luque, Arxiu-Biblioteca dels Franciscans de Catalunya / Departament d'Història Medieval, Paleografia i Diplomàtica, Universitat de Barcelona
Paper 625-aExcessive Citing of the Law?: Use of the Visigothic Law Code in Medieval Catalonia
(Language: English)
Cornel-Peter Rodenbusch, Institut de Recerca en Cultures Medievals, Universitat de Barcelona / Seminar für mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Index terms: Administration, Charters and Diplomatics, Law, Local History
Paper 625-bThe Coronation Feast of Henry II of Jerusalem in 1286
(Language: English)
Philipp Sebastian Weiss, Lehrstuhl für Mittelalterliche Geschichte und Historische Hilfswissenschaften, Universität Trier
Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Performance Arts - General, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 625-cAll You Can Drink: The Consecration of the New Chapel of Lüneburg's Leprosery in 1436
(Language: English)
Marie Jaros, Historisches Seminar, Universität Leipzig
Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Urban, Local History, Social History
Abstract

Excessive behaviour can be found in all areas of life, today as in the Middle Ages. It can be used to express a vide variety of things: protest, wealth, claims to power, ruthlessness, knowledge… The second of the two sessions focuses on those expressions in laical fields of action, starting with the overcited Visigothic Law and the excessive display of sacrality in a coronation. Then we move on to analyze the right amount of beer for a consecration and explore feud letters as means to express excess of violence. The common questions remain the same as in the first session: What goals did the actors pursue with their behaviour and how was it perceived by others?