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This volume is a collection of proceedings presented at the fourth Carlsberg Academy Conference on Medieval Legal History, held in Copenhagen in 2007. The book covers a wide range of topics from individual and local case studies to broader reflections of the relationship between law and power, secular as well as ecclesiastical, in medieval European societies. Combining the approaches of several historical disciplines political, social, intellectual, and legal an international group of eminent scholars offer their views on central aspects of the function of law in creating and maintaining social order.
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The Kings power to Legislate in Twelfth- and Thirteenth Century Denmark Nobility in Court The Interplay between Law, Sin and Honour in Conflicts between Magnates and Kings in Thirteenth Century Norway Social Ordering and Doctrine of Free Choice. The Case of Abjuration sub pena nubendi Twelth Century Views of Power in Peter the Venerable's Contra Peetrobrusianos and in Canon Law Without were Fightings, Within were Fears. Pope Gregory VII, the Canons Regular of Watten and the Reform og the Church in the Diocese of Therouanne Outlawry and Ecclesiastical Power in Medieval Norway The Conflict in the Stavanger Church around 1300 and the Intervention of Hakon Magnusson The Hauldr: Peasant or Nobleman? Power, Law, and the Administration of Justice in England 900-1200 In coronam regiam iniuriam: The Barons' War and the Legal Status of Rebellion, 1246-1266 Enforcing Old Law in New Ways: Professionel Lawyers and Treason in Early Fourteenth Century England anf France Frustra legis auxilium invocat: Reception og a Medieval Maxim in Early Modern England and America Anselm of Canterbury's View of God's Law in England Reflections on the Insertion of Bureaucratic Structures in Medieval Clientelic Societies
