Conf/CfP - Law and Legal Agreements 600-1250, 12-13 January 2018, Cambridge University, UK

Papers covering the following strands are encouraged, but not limited to:

• Agreement and Disagreement –including aspects of judgments and arbitration, conflict resolution, the material and visual culture of legal disputes, violence 

• Inheritance, Kinship and Marriage –including topics on dower and dowry; family relationships defined through legal action; divorce and annulment of marriage; fostering and the process of adoption; wardship and inheritance, including will making

• Status, ‘Other’ and Gender – including free and unfree; female agency; queer cases before the courts; sexual deviancy and the intersectionality of status and gender in the making of legal agreements. This strand can also consider the legal status of aliens and strangers; exclusion, expulsion and displacement; and issues surrounding community and identity, including different faith identities and heretical identities in secular and canon law

• The Spoken vs the Written Word – including performance; witnesses and jurors; the use of liturgy and religious texts; satire

• Written versus Material Evidence – including the materiality of legal spaces; archaeology and architecture; the interaction between written and material evidence