Lecture on "Lo Codi", a 12th-century Occitan text of Roman law and a key work in the history of Romance languages.
Date
Wednesday 4 November
18:00 – 19:15
Venue
Alte Kantonsschule
Rämistrasse 59, Zürich
Price
Price on organiser’s site
Language
German
Automatically translated from German
This lecture examines "Lo Codi", a summary of Justinian's Codex written around 1150 in Old Occitan in southern France – the first vernacular text of Roman law. Maxime Paratte (UZH) contextualises the work within legal and linguistic history and analyses how the text develops specialised legal terminology and complex sentence structures in the vernacular. "Lo Codi" is a key text for the development of Romance languages in the Middle Ages and an important source for 12th-century legal culture. The lecture is held in German.
Organiser · Junge Mediävistik Zürich
Alte Kantonsschule
Wed 4 Nov · 18:00
Price: see website