IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 635: Jurisdiction, Legal Community, and Political Discourse, 900-1200, II: Borders of Jurisdiction in Towns - Regulation between Canon and Secular Law

Tuesday 5 July 2022, 11.15-12.45

Organiser:	Helle Vogt, Center for Retskulturelle Studier, Det Juridiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet
Moderator/Chair:	Alice Taylor, Department of History, King's College London
Respondent:	Chris Wickham, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Paper 635-a	Whose Muslims? Whose Town?: Religious Minorities and Competing Jurisdictions in Tortosa, 1148-1276 (Language: English) Rodrigo García-Velasco Bernal, Woolf Institute / Faculty of History, University of Cambridge Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Law, Religious Life
Paper 635-b	A Bishop's Jurisdiction between the City and Its Contado: Cases, Law, and Procedure in a Pre-Modern Italian Court, 1287-1301 (Language: English) Arnaud Fossier, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche Sociétés, Sensibilités, Soin (LIR3S - UMR 7366), Université de Bourgogne, Dijon Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Law
Paper 635-c	Outside the Household, inside the Town: Between Canon and Secular Law in Norwegian and Danish Towns, 1200-1350 (Language: English) Helle Vogt, Center for Retskulturelle Studier, Det Juridiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet Miriam Tveit, Fakultetet for Samfunnsvitenskap, Nord universitet Index terms: Canon Law, Law, Social History
Abstract	In the second session, we will be focussing on the jurisdiction of urban minority groups. We aim to investigate the jurisdictions between secular law - primarily urban - and canon law within the medieval town, as well as how juridical boundaries would define urban religious and social groups. The speakers approach the regulation of urban marginal groups with examples from different European regions. Rodrigo García-Velasco will speak about the Muslims of Tortosa, in Catalonia using one ecclesiastical and one royal judicial record that entangled this community in some tricky questions of local jurisdiction. Arnaud Fossier's paper discuss aspects of the urban society of Pistoia, Tuscany, through criminal, matrimonial or usury cases, in context of the bishop's jurisdiction in the town and its surroundings. Miriam Jensen Tveit and Helle Vogt will look at the regulation of persons not belonging to a household in the Norwegian and Danish towns.