IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1140: Law and Problem Solving, c. 1000-c. 1300, I: Problems in Finding and Administering Justice
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Organisers: | Philippa Byrne, St John's College, University of Oxford Meghan Woolley, Department of History, Duke University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Philippa Byrne, St John's College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1140-a | Solving the Problem of Legal Authority in 'Part One' of the So-Called Très ancien Coutumier of Normandy (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Law, Theology |
| Paper 1140-b | Committitur gaole per statutum: The Entanglements of the Court of the General Eyre (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Mentalities, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1140-c | Avenging Mothers in the Early Common Law (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Law, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | The 13th century saw the rise of systematic legal codes and courts in England and Normandy. Beneath the surface of the sources this wave of reform produced lie complications in legal authority and efficacy. The papers in this session address these complexities by reconsidering what legal sources can tell us. The first paper presents an alternative model of legal authority found in the Norman Très-ancien coutumier, based not on Roman law, but on Biblical morality. The second paper presents the problems faced by England's General Eyre court through an examination of raptus trials. The third paper asks what limited Eyre records can tell us about women in the common law, and how they faced the problem of finding justice. |