Law and Ritual Conference

There are several funded places available for PhD students who wish to go to the conference as delegates. Travel and accommodation can be covered, but applications are on a first come, first served basis. Please contact VoicesofLaw (at) gmail (dot) com.

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…