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Voices of Law: Language, Text & Practice - #Research Network of #Medieval scholars funded by @LeverhulmeTrust. Tweets by @jembenham et al.

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Here's our conference report with links to the twitter threads #LLA2018: https://t.co/vcRbrjgzC9 #medievaltwitter #twitterstorians @WomenHistLaw @Ox_Medieval_Soc @law_soc @GersumProject @SwanseaHistory @ISASaxonists @RebeccaSearby @legalhistory @jembenham

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@VoicesofLaw committee have been busy and this is the final product. Well done everyone and thanks to contributors, staff @Brill_History, and of course @LeverhulmeTrust for funding

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"Law and Language in the Middle Ages", edited by Matthew W. McHaffie, Jenny Benham and Helle Vogt, investigates the encounter between #law and legal practice from the #linguistic perspective. https://t.co/O4328iWjLe
#legallanguage #middleages

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Countdown to @IMC_Leeds: https://t.co/2zfVxKhUBo

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ICYMI here is our round table thread! And thus concludes the conference! #LLA2018 https://t.co/0ZdZAveIel

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#LLA2018 apologies for not tweeting the Q&A of the last panel, it's hard to both tweet and chair! we are now back for our final roundtable which is chaired by Helle Vogt in Stephen White's absence.

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ICYMI here is our final speaker of the conference, Emma cavell’s thread! #LLA2018 https://t.co/XGHfFt59hH

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#LLA2018 finally is Emma Cavell of Swansea University on Foreign Practices & Native Agreements : widows dower in preconquest wales

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Emma Cavell @WomenHistLaw @SwanseaHistory speaking on widows and dower in pre-conquest Wales #LLA2018

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ICYMI here is Gianmarco de Angelis’s thread! #LLA2018 https://t.co/GlXn1ZieWM

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#LLA2018 Next speaker is Gianmarco de Angelis, lecturer in University of Padua. Moving us to Early Med Italy c800-c1100.

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ICYMI here is Jacqueline Bemmer’s thread! #LLA2018 https://t.co/L5TF7g1BMJ

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I am chairing this panel so tweets will be patchier! First speaker is Jacqueline Bemmer of Uni of Vienna speaking on pledge contracts by women (?) In Early Irish Law Texts c650-750 #LLA2018

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#LLA2018 Jacqueline Bemmer: On Irish laws of contract - If a husband brought a second wife into the marriage, the first wife was legally allowed to slap the 2nd for a certain period of time

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Next session is on legal agreements and property rights #LLA2018

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ICYMI here is Gwynedd Parry’s thread! #LLA2018 https://t.co/M2jOFq4lAr

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#LLA2018 Our last speaker in this panel is Gwynedd Parry of Swansea University. Current Prof in Welsh School but began career in Law. Moving into history of law, looking at a poetic take on trial by ordeal in medieval Wales.

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ICYMI here is Lukas Bothe’s thread! #LLA2018 https://t.co/mBfgP4L8TJ

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#LLA2018 next up is Lukas Bothe of the Free University of Berlin. "From Debt to Sin? Wergild Liability and the evolution of individual guilt i Frankish law 6-9thcs" - work in progress (WiP) based on Kin guilt in Frankish culture

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Next Lukas Bothe on wergild in Frankish law #LLA2018

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#LLA2018 Stefan Jurasinksi: To fail in the ordeal is almost always described with ful or foul – in other words to fail. To fail at the ordeal was not so much to prove guilt but a foulness or uncleanness within and an unworthiness to receive the eucharist as a result.

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#LLA2018 First speaker of day 2 is Stefan Jurasinski! Feeling very privileged to hear him speak

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ICYMI here is Stefan Jurasinski’s thread! #LLA2018 https://t.co/tIETZaydVQ

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#LLA2018 we are back! starting this panel on Law, Sin and Judgment with Stefan Jurasinski, State University of New York. His paper is on The Ordeal in #AngloSaxon England: Reconsidering Liebermann's Iudicia Dei.

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Very excited for the second day of #LLA2018 @VoicesofLaw @Department_ASNC

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If the #kidstable were to sum #LLA2018 it would be #ShameUponYourBeard and #OldNorseRacyStuff so long y’all and thanks for all the fish!

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Brilliant and interesting #talkything by my buddy @RebeccaSearby on Jewish testimony #LLA2018