Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	635
Title	Jurisdiction, Legal Community, and Political Discourse, 900-1200, II: Borders of Jurisdiction in Towns - Regulation between Canon and Secular Law
Date/Time	Tuesday 5 July 2022: 11.15-12.45
Organiser	Helle Vogt, Center for Interdisciplinære Retlige Studier (CIS), Københavns Universitet
Moderator/Chair	Alice Taylor, Department of History, King's College London
Respondent	Chris Wickham, Faculty of History, University of Oxford / Department of History, University of Birmingham
Paper 635-a	Whose Muslims? Whose Town?: Religious Minorities and Competing Jurisdictions in Tortosa, 1148-1276 (Language: English) Rodrigo García-Velasco Bernal, Department of History, University College London Index Terms: Charters and Diplomatics; Law; Religious Life
Paper 635-b	A Bishop's Jurisdiction between the City and Its Contado: Cases, Law, and Procedure in a Pre-Modern Italian Court, 1287-1301 (Language: English) Arnaud Fossier, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche Sociétés, Sensibilités, Soin (LIR3S - UMR 7366), Université de Bourgogne, Dijon Index Terms: Canon Law; Ecclesiastical History; Law
Paper 635-c	Outside the Household, inside the Town: Between Canon and Secular Law in Norwegian and Danish Towns, 1200-1350 (Language: English) Miriam Tveit, Historie, kultur og media, Nord universitet, Bodø Helle Vogt, Center for Interdisciplinære Retlige Studier (CIS), Københavns Universitet Index Terms: Canon Law; Law; Social History
Abstract	In the second session, we will be focussing on the jurisdiction of urban minority groups. We aim to investigate the jurisdictions between secular law - primarily urban - and canon law within the medieval town, as well as how juridical boundaries would define urban religious and social groups. The speakers approach the regulation of urban marginal groups with examples from different European regions. Rodrigo García-Velasco will speak about the Muslims of Tortosa, in Catalonia using one ecclesiastical and one royal judicial record that entangled this community in some tricky questions of local jurisdiction. Arnaud Fossier's paper discuss aspects of the urban society of Pistoia, Tuscany, through criminal, matrimonial or usury cases, in context of the bishop's jurisdiction in the town and its surroundings. Miriam Jensen Tveit and Helle Vogt will look at the regulation of persons not belonging to a household in the Norwegian and Danish towns.