IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 726: Articulating Legal and Political Boundaries, 1050-1350, III: Legal Awareness
Tuesday 6 July 2021, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Arts & Humanities Research Council Project 'The Community of the Realm in Scotland, 1249-1424' / British Academy Project '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: | Danica Summerlin, Department of History, University of Sheffield |
| Paper 726-a | Space, Temporality, and Legal Pluralism in 'Feudal Society': Western France, 1050-1250 (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Charters and Diplomatics, Law, Social History |
| Paper 726-b | Colonisation or Continuity?: The Statutes of Pamiers (1212) and the Legal Tradition of the Midi (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Law, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 726-c | Policing the Borders, Pushing the Boundaries: Asserting and Expanding Jurisdiction in Anglo-Scottish Correspondence, 1249-1286 (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Law, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This is the third 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 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 to problematise the relationship between law and the nation. The third session addresses the question of legal pluralism through ideas of legal awareness, asking how far law-makers, litigants, legal specialists, and, even, letter writers knew other of other legal traditions and alluded to them in different ways in their work with different effects. It challenges perceptions about the separate spheres of law (e.g. 'canon' and 'customary') as well as examining how legal awareness was used for explicit political purposes, and with what consequences. |