Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe

25 - 26 May 2018

This is a past event

The second symposium of the Law in the Aberdeen Council Registers project

c. 9.00 coffee

9.15-9.30 Introduction - Edda Frankot and Jackson Armstrong

9.30-11.00 Session 1 (chair: tba)

Claire Hawes, respondent for Graeme Small & William Hepburn – Common Books in Aberdeen, c. 1398 - c. 1511

Christian Liddy, respondent for Graeme Small & William Hepburn – Reading the social history of the archive the other way round: Aberdeen’s council registers, 1591-1437-1398

11.00-11.30 coffee

11.30-12.30 Session 2 (chair: tba)

Edda Frankot, respondent for David Ditchburn – Bells, Clocks & The Beginnings of ‘Lawyer Time’ in Late Medieval Scotland

David Ditchburn, respondent for Edda Frankot - Legal business outside the courts: private and public houses as spaces of law

12.30-13.30 lunch

13.30-14.30 Session 3 (chair: tba)

Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz, respondent for Jelle Haemers & Chanelle Delameillieure, Recalcitrant Brides and Grooms. Jurisdiction, Marriage, and Conflicts with Parents in Fifteenth-Century Ghent

Jelle Haemers & Chanelle Delameillieure, respondent forJustyna Wubs-Mrozewicz, Conflicts about property: ships and inheritances in Danzig and the Hanse region (15^th-16^th centuries)

14.30-15.00 coffee

15.00-16.00 Session 4 (chair: tba)

Michael H. Brown, respondent for Jörg Rogge - Pax Urbana - the use of law for the achievement of political goals

Jörg Rogge, respondent for Michael H. Brown, Burghs and Regalities: Conflicts of Jurisdiction

16.00-16.30 Round-up discussion (chair: Jackson Armstrong)

Saturday 26 May

c. 9.15 coffee

9.30-10.30 Session 5 (chair: tba)

Andrew Simpson, respondent for Jackson Armstrong - ‘Malice’ and motivation for hostility in the burgh courts of late medieval Aberdeen

Jackson Armstrong, respondent for Andrew Simpson - Men of Law in the Aberdeen Council Register: A Preliminary Study, ca.1450-ca.1460

10.30-10.45 coffee

10.45-11.45 Session 6 (chair: tba)

Anna Havinga, respondent for Joanna Kopaczyk - Language as code: language choices and functions in a multilingual legal culture

Joanna Kopaczyk, respondent for Anna Havinga - Language shift in the Aberdeen Council Registers

11.45-12.30 Round-up discussion (chair: Edda Frankot)

Hosted by

RIISS

Venue

Aberdeen University Duncan C. Rice Library, Craig Suite, Floor 7

Contact

Please Conatct: Edda Frankot (e.frankot@abdn.ac.uk)