Law and Legal Culture in Anglo-Saxon England I
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Medieval-Renaissance Faculty Workshop, Univ. of Louisville
Organizer Name
Andrew Rabin
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Louisville
Presider Name
Nicole Marafioti
Presider Affiliation
Trinity Univ.
Paper Title 1
What Did Waerferth Write?
Presenter 1 Name
Lisi Oliver
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Louisiana State Univ.-Baton Rouge
Paper Title 2
Rewriting the Decalogue in Anglo-Saxon England
Presenter 2 Name
Stefan Jurasinski
Presenter 2 Affiliation
SUNY-Brockport
Paper Title 3
A Case of Irish Legal Methods in Early Northumbrian Law
Presenter 3 Name
Bryan Carella
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Assumption College
Start Date
10-5-2014 1:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1145
Description
This session forms part of the on-going reevaluation of the present state of the study of Anglo-Saxon law which began with the celebration of the centenary of Felix Liebermann's Gesetze der Angelsachsen. Recognizing the extent to which our understanding of early law has changed over the last century, the purpose of this session is to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines to discuss new ways of understanding pre-Conquest legal culture. We invite papers that examine the many ways in which law was made, understood, practiced, promulgated, and transcribed in the Anglo-Saxon world. We are eager to receive submissions representing a variety of perspectives, methodologies, and disciplines. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): royal legislation, legal manuscripts, law in/and literature, legal procedure, charters and diplomatics, writs and wills, dispute resolution, theories of law and justice, perceptions of early law in later periods, law in/and art, We welcome traditional philological and historicist approaches, as well as those informed by modern critical theory. The last few years have witnessed the most extensive reconsideration of Old English law since Liebermann himself, and this session offers an important opportunity to discuss the progress and publicize the research taking place in this field.
Andrew Rabin
Law and Legal Culture in Anglo-Saxon England I
Schneider 1145
This session forms part of the on-going reevaluation of the present state of the study of Anglo-Saxon law which began with the celebration of the centenary of Felix Liebermann's Gesetze der Angelsachsen. Recognizing the extent to which our understanding of early law has changed over the last century, the purpose of this session is to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines to discuss new ways of understanding pre-Conquest legal culture. We invite papers that examine the many ways in which law was made, understood, practiced, promulgated, and transcribed in the Anglo-Saxon world. We are eager to receive submissions representing a variety of perspectives, methodologies, and disciplines. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): royal legislation, legal manuscripts, law in/and literature, legal procedure, charters and diplomatics, writs and wills, dispute resolution, theories of law and justice, perceptions of early law in later periods, law in/and art, We welcome traditional philological and historicist approaches, as well as those informed by modern critical theory. The last few years have witnessed the most extensive reconsideration of Old English law since Liebermann himself, and this session offers an important opportunity to discuss the progress and publicize the research taking place in this field.
Andrew Rabin