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LAW AND RITUAL
22-23 September 2016, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
#LawAndRitual @VoicesofLaw
22 September 2016
09:00-09:30 – REGISTRATION AND WELCOME
09:30 – 11:00 – RITUAL AND PERFORMANCE USING SCRIPTURE & LITURGY
The Ritual of Torture in Medieval Courts
Kenneth Pennington, The Catholic University of America
Biblical analogues for early Anglo-Saxon law
Carole Hough, University of Glasgow
Legal performance in John’s Gospel and its interpretation by Old English translators
Sara Pons-Sanz, Cardiff University
COFFEE – 11:00-11:15
11:15 – 12:30 – RITUAL AND PERFORMANCE WITHIN LAW TEXTS
Recholl Breth: an early medieval Irish law text
Jody Buckley-Coogan, Queen’s University, Belfast
Transformation of an early medieval ritual in the process of record of the Lex Frisionum
Grigorij Borisov, Moscow State University / Tübingen University
Poisoning in Lombard Law and Legal Commentary: The Liber Papiensis and Walcausina, ca. 1025-1125
Thomas Gobbitt, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
LUNCH – 12:30-13:30
13:30-15:30 – RITUALS AND PERFORMANCE AS SENSORY/EMOTIONAL
The power of the senses: voice and touch in the ritualistic practices in early
Irish law
Jacqueline Bemmer, Oxford University
Law and Drinking
Daniela Fruscione, Universität Frankfurt am Main
Revenge or Settlement? Law and Feud in Early Sagas of Icelanders
Roland Scheel, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Wrath at court: legal response, ritual display or strategic move?
Hans Jacob Orning, University of Oslo
COFFEE – 15:30-15:45
15:45-17:00 ROUND TABLE AND CONCLUDING REMARKS
19:30 CONFERENCE DINNER – HOTEL POST-PLAZA
Law and Ritual
23 September 2016
09:00-10:30 – RITUALS AND PERFORMANCE IN THE SOCIAL/SECULAR
SPHERE
The art of vassalage: Depictions of homage, fealty, and investiture in secular
manuscripts of medieval Iberia
Shannon Wearing, UCLA Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Ritual, Law, and the ‘Legal Revolution’
Matthew McHaffie, King’s College, London
Snowballs, strangers and standards; social relations and judicial ordinances in
late medieval Lille
Laura Crombie, University of York
COFFEE – 10:30-10:45
10:45-12:15 – RITUAL AND PERFORMANCE OF SPACE AND PLACE
Love-Days: Mediation and Performance in Marcher Law
Melissa Julian-Jones, Cardiff University
Performance and ritualization in the late medieval courtroom: Utrecht, Paris
and York
Frans Camphuijsen, University of Amsterdam
Addressing Accessibility of the Courtroom in the Fifteenth-century Town Hall
Nathan van Kleij, University of Amsterdam
LUNCH – 12:15-13:15
13:15-14:30 – RITUAL AND PERFORMANCE OF OATH-MAKING
Oaths of loyalty sworn contra omnes
Joshua Hey, University of St Andrews
Lies and Loyalty: Oaths as Ritual in Medieval Norwegian Legislation
Ole-Albert Rønning, University of Oslo
“If I lie, let the lighting strike me, let the illness affect me right here, right
now” Oath in the polish urban and land law in the Medieval and Early Modern
Period
Piotr Kitowski & Aleksandra Girsztowt, University of Gdańsk
14:30-14:45 COFFEE
14:45 – CLOSING REMARKS
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