ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Fluid texts and scholars’ digests: (re)production of law in medieval Ireland
FLEXI investigates how the fluid, multifarious law texts were (re)produced and accepted as sources of law in medieval Europe, using four sets of late medieval Irish law texts called the ‘digests’ as its main object of study. The digests contain texts quoted from diverse sources, and organise them into a systematic review of the legal tradition. They represent the law in operation in the form of highly variegated and complex intertextual networks, and therefore are an ideal sample for studying the dynamics between fluidity and unity in medieval law texts. FLEXI focuses on how law texts were (re)produced, studied, and transmitted in medieval Ireland. It is not only the first in-depth study of…
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