Friday, January 9, 2004

9:30–11:30 a.m.

5. Authority, Trust, and Witness in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Marriott, McKinley Room

Chair: Thomas V. Cohen, York University
Papers:

“As all the country there well knoweth”: The Community as Witness in Late Medieval Chancery Petitions
Anna Dronzek, University of Minnesota, Morris
Witnessing Commerce: The Role of the “Witness” in Merchant Self-Regulation in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp
Donald J. Harreld, Brigham Young University
Testimony without Witness: Gossip and Hearsay in Sixteenth-Century Venice
Elizabeth Horodowich, New Mexico State University

Comment: Thomas V. Cohen