Law and Legal Culture in Anglo-Saxon England II
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Medieval-Renaissance Faculty Workshop, Univ. of Louisville
Organizer Name
Andrew Rabin
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Louisville
Presider Name
Bryan Carella
Presider Affiliation
Assumption College
Paper Title 1
Crime and Sin in the Work of Archbishop Wulfstan: The “Holiness of Society” Revisited
Presenter 1 Name
Nicole Marafioti
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Trinity Univ.
Paper Title 2
Puttin' on the Writs: The Political Discourse of Anglo-Norman Writs and the Quadripartitus
Presenter 2 Name
S. Jay Lemanski
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Missouri Western State Univ.
Paper Title 3
Divine Law and English Law: Sir Simonds D'Ewes's Notes in Lambarde's Archaionomia
Presenter 3 Name
Rebecca Brackmann
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Lincoln Memorial Univ.
Start Date
10-5-2014 3:30 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 II
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