IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 1609: Law after Rome: Networks and Connections in the Leges barbarorum, III - Networks in Early Medieval Legal Cultures

Organiser:	Christopher Heath, Department of History, Politics & Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University
Moderator/Chair:	Thomas Gobbitt, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Paper 1609-a	Honour, Shame, and Religious Entanglements in Early Medieval English Law (Language: English) Julian Calcagno, College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Daily Life, Law, Social History
Paper 1609-b	The Runaway placitum: The Lawsuit of Jesi in 860 against Count Hildebert and Its Consequences (Language: English) Clemens Gantner, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Law, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History
Paper 1609-c	Gender and Legal Identity in Early Medieval Southern Italy (Language: English) Sarah Whitten, Department of History, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York Index terms: Anthropology, Gender Studies, Law, Social History
Abstract	These three papers conclude the third of three sessions on Law after Rome. Each paper considers a specific applied example of the mechanics and application of law. Calcagno considers 'Honour, Shame, and Religious Entanglements in Anglo-Saxon Legal Systems'; whereas Gantner analyses 'The so-called Runaway placitum' with the session concluding with Whitten's paper on 'Gender and Legal Identity in Early Medieval Southern Italy'.