IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1337: Bad Entanglements: Crime and Abuse in the Early Middle Ages, II
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Jan van Doren, Department of History, Princeton University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Mayke de Jong, Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Paper 1337-a | Pagan Entanglements in the 8th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Pagan Religions, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1337-b | Abusing the City: Frankish Kings, Urban Communities, and Sin in the 9th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Political Thought, Rhetoric |
| Paper 1337-c | 'Aussonia corrupta': Constructing Corruption in the Kingdom of Italy, c. 814-840 (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Daily Life, Ecclesiastical History, Social History |
| Abstract | This panel investigates how crimes and abuses were conceptualized by early medieval thinkers. Early medieval authors and compilers adapted biblical and Roman decrees and admonitions to their own day and age, translating, as Walter Ullmann put it, 'all-pervading' Christian virtues and vices into more practical social-legislative norms. Our panelists will address the processes through which specific crimes and abuses became conceptualized and prohibited. These processes by no means restricted themselves to the creation of social-legislative norms only and our panels will also consider extra-legal processes of norm making that helped ground crimes and abuses more firmly in early medieval society. |