Congress Programme
DRAFT PROGRAMME OF THE 17TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MEDIEVAL CANON LAW
(CANTERBURY, UK, 7-13 JULY 2024)
Last updated: 14 May 2024. For any corrections or queries, please contact the organisers at icmcl2024@gmail.com as soon as possible.
Sunday (7 July, Feast of the Translation of St Thomas of Canterbury):
15.30-16.30: Ecumenical Service of Welcome and Commemoration of Deceased Historians of Medieval Canon Law (Canterbury Cathedral Quire)
17.30-18.30: Optional participation in Cathedral Evensong to celebrate the Feast of the Translation of St Thomas of Canterbury (including a solemn procession to the shrine).
19.30: Opening Reception at the University of Kent, Sibson Building (sponsored by ICMAC)
N.B. The language of the papers below is the same as the language of their titles unless otherwise indicated.
Monday (8 July): Canterbury Cathedral Conference Suite
Alongside the sessions there will be group visits to the congress exhibition at the Cathedral Library and to the Franciscan Gardens near the Cathedral.
9-10: Plenary Lecture (Claggett Auditorium)
David d’Avray, Jesus College, Oxford, UK.
‘Medieval Canon Law in a Comparative Perspective’
Moderator: Peter Clarke, University of Southampton, UK.
10-10.30: Coffee break
10.30-12.00: Sessions I
Session 1: Canon Law and Canterbury
Room: Kentish Barn (DJS Room)
Moderator: Peter Clarke, University of Southampton, UK.
Speakers 1a: Emanuele Conte and Louis Genton, Università Roma Tre, Italy
‘A cause célèbre in the 12th century. Monks, archbishops, and power strategies in Canterbury’
Speaker 1b: Charles Donahue Jr, Harvard Law School, USA
‘Hubert Walter as a Lawyer’
Speaker 1c: Andrea Hugill, University of Toronto, Canada
‘Canterbury and the Centrality of Salisbury Cathedral’
Session 2: Canon Law in the Tenth Century
Room: Kentish Barn (Canterbury Room)
Moderator: Edward Roberts, University of Kent, UK.
Speaker 2a: Katy Cubitt, University of East Anglia, UK.
‘Archbishop Wulfstan II of York (d. 1023) and the “Customs of the Eastern Provinces of Germany and Saxonia”: East Frankish canon law in tenth-century England?’
Speaker 2b: Abner Chacon, Saint Louis University, USA.
‘Reform, Pastoral Care, and Canon Law in the Works of Atto, Bishop of Vercelli’
Speaker 2c: Ingrid Ivarsen, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK.
‘Canon law and worldly law in tenth-century Canterbury manuscripts’
Session 3: Proctors and Representatives
Room: Claggett Auditorium Balcony
Moderator and Respondent: Barbara Bombi, University of Kent, UK.
Speaker 3a: Nicholas Vincent, University of East Anglia, UK [Invited Keynote Speaker]
‘History, Heresy and Humour in the Career of Master Stefano da San Giorgio (d. 1290)’
Speaker 3b: Patrick Zutshi, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, UK.
‘The proctor's mandate: constitution 37 of the Fourth Lateran Council reconsidered’
12-13.30: Lunch - Free (list of cafés in central Canterbury to be provided).
13.30-15.00: Sessions II
Session 4: IUS ILLUMINATUM for the Study, Digitization, and Description of Illuminated Manuscripts and Printed Books of Canon Law in Medieval Europe (13th-15th Century)
Room: Kentish Barn (DJS Room)
Organiser: Maria Alessandra Bilotta, Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Portugal.
Moderator: Barbara Bombi, University of Kent, UK.
Speaker 4a: Maria Alessandra Bilotta.
‘Historical-artistic research into Illuminated Manuscripts of Canon Law in Medieval Europe (13th-15th Century): Open Problems, Goals Achieved, Future Research Paths’.
Speaker 4b: Maria Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni, Università di Torino, Italy.
‘Canon Law from Manuscript to Print. For a Fully Integrated Approach to the Study of Texts, Apparatuses, and Illustrations through the Platform IVS Commune online.’
Speaker 4c: Camilla Marangoni, Università di Torino-Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy.
‘Exploring the iconography of canon law: a project to expand the Iconclass classification system.’
Session 5: Eleventh-century Councils
Room: Kentish Barn (Canterbury Room)
Moderator: Anders Winroth, University of Oslo, Norway.
Speaker 5a: Robert Somerville, Columbia University, USA.
‘Bruno, Odo, and JL 5760 (C. 19, q. 2 c. 2)’
Speaker 5b: Kathleen Cushing, Keele University, UK.
‘Negotiating Law in tenth- and eleventh-century Church councils.’
Speaker 5c: Steven Schoenig, Saint Louis University, USA.
‘A Lost Canon and Views of Roman Law in the Collectio Britannica’
Session 6: Texts and Learning, I
Room: Claggett Auditorium Balcony
Moderator: Franck Roumy, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, France.
Speaker 6a: Frédérique Cahu, Centre Chastel, France.
‘Montpellier: centre de production et de diffusion du Liber Extra au XIIIe siècle’
Speaker 6b: Clarisse Siméant, Université Paris-Saclay, France
‘L’Alphabetum juris canonici d’Albéric de Rosate’
Speaker 6c: Vid Žepič, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
‘Summa Monaldina’ [in English]
15-15.30: Coffee break
15.30-17.30: Sessions III
Session 7: Canon Law Networks
Room: Kentish Barn (DJS Room)
Moderator: Anne Duggan, King’s College London, UK
Speaker 7a: Lari Ahokas, University of Helsinki, Finland.
‘Canons and Networks of Texts in Text Collections of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries’
Speaker 7b: Martin Rehak, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.
‘References to England in the Summae of Magister Honorius of Kent’
Speaker 7c: Niels Becker, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.
‘E duobus unum: The transmission of the Summa Quaestionum of Honorius of Kent in the manuscripts Douai, BM 640 and 649’
Speaker 7d: Paweł Dziwiński, Independent Scholar, Poland.
‘Thomas Becket and Stanislaus of Szczepanów. The Use of Martyrdom Narratives in the Exercise of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in Poland.’
Session 8: Sacrilege in canon law and political thinking
Room: Kentish Barn (Canterbury Room).
Organiser: Arnaud Fossier, Université de Bourgogne, France.
Moderator: Sara McDougall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA.
Speaker 8a: Arnaud Fossier.
'Lèse-majesté, sacrilege and reserved cases to the Pope.'
Speaker 8b: Alice Taylor, King’s College London, UK.
'Sacrilege and the legalised language of politics.'
Speaker 8c: Anthony Perron, Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles), USA.
'Sacrilege and clerical privilege. The jurisprudence of Stephen of Tournai.'
Session 9: Heresy and Inquisition
Room: Claggett Auditorium Balcony.
Moderator: John Arnold, University of Cambridge / Kings College, Cambridge, UK.’
Speaker 9a: Thibault Joubert, Université de Strasbourg, France.
‘La tradition canonique dans le De præscriptione hæreticorum de Tertullien’
Speaker 9b: Asami Kobayashi, Shujitsu University, Okayama, Japan.
‘Die Häresie und die Inquisition in den päpstlichen Dekretalen’
Speaker 9c: Maria Cives, Pontificia Università Urbaniana, Rome, Italy.
‘Causa 26: magic, penance, and papal authority in the two recensions of Gratian’s Decretum’
Speaker 9d: Matteo Carmine Fiocca, Università ‘La Sapienza’, Rome, Italy.
‘The Tractatus de fide catholica of Franciscus, bishop of Squillace (1474)’
17.30-18.30: Optional participation in Cathedral Evensong.
Dinner: Free (list of restaurants in central Canterbury to be provided)
Tuesday (9 July): Cathedral Conference Suite
Alongside the sessions there will be group visits to the congress exhibition at the Cathedral Library and to the Franciscan Gardens and Eastbridge Pilgrims’ Hospital near the Cathedral.
9-10: Plenary Lecture (Claggett Auditorium)
Ludger Körntgen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany.
‘Early Medieval Penitentials and Early Medieval Canon Law: an Intricate Relation.’
Moderator: Edward Roberts, University of Kent, UK.
10-10.30: Coffee break
10.30-12.00: Sessions IV
Session 10: Harmony and Discord: Canon Law and Secular Law in Twelfth-Century Europe
Room: Kentish Barn (DJS Room).
Organiser: Sarah White, University of Nottingham, UK.
Session Sponsor: History of Law and Governance Centre, University of Nottingham, UK.
Moderator: Emanuele Conte, Università Roma Tre, Italy.
Speaker 10a: Sarah White.
‘Rhetoric and Reconciliation: Approaches to Legal Thinking in the Late Twelfth Century’
Speaker 10b: David De Concilio, University of Padua, Italy.
‘Canon Law and Commercial Law: The Ecclesiastical Stance on Just Price in the Thirteenth Century’
Speaker 10c: Attilio Stella, University of Verona, Italy.
‘Feudal customs and learned law: interactions, borrowings, and appropriations in the thirteenth century’.
Speaker 10d: Will Eves, University of Nottingham, UK.
‘Secular Decretals or a sui generis collection? Examining the “Seneschal Material” in “Part One” of the Très ancien coutumier of Normandy’
Session 11: Consent. Between individual responsibility and hierarchical authority (12th-15th century)
Room: Kentish Barn (Canterbury Room)
Organiser: Corinne Leveleux-Teixeira, École Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris), University of Orléans, France.
Moderator: Raphaël Eckert, University of Strasbourg, France.
Speaker 11a: Corinne Leveleux-Teixeira.
‘Consenting to heresy. An analysis between theory and practice (12th-14th centuries)’
Speaker 11b: Véronique Beaulande-Barraud, University of Grenoble Alps, France.
‘Consentement et autorité épiscopale dans les statuts synodaux des XIIIe-XIVe siècles’
Speaker 11c: Christine Barralis, University of Lorraine, CRULH, France.
‘Consent and metropolitan authority in a 15th-century treatise on provincial councils’.
Session 12: Confession and Pastoral Care
Room: Claggett Auditorium Balcony
Moderator: Danica Summerlin, University of Sheffield, UK
Speaker 12a: Melodie Eichbauer, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA.
‘Profit versus Profiteering: The Ethical and Legal Consideration of Greed in Summa confessorum’
Speaker 12b: Emily Corran, University College London, UK.
‘William of Rennes and the transformation of thirteenth century casuistry’
Speaker 12c: Daniela Tarantino, Università di Genova, Italy.
‘From reconciliation to healing. Some reflections on the confessor as curatus medicus animarum in moral theology and canon law since the Fourth Lateran Council’ [in Italian].
12-13.30: Lunch break – free (list of cafes in central Canterbury to be provided)
12-13.30: Private Meeting of the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law (Claggett Auditorium Balcony).
13.30-15.00: Sessions V
Session 13: Episcopal and Papal Authority
Room: Kentish Barn (DJS Room)
Moderator: Bruce Brasington, West Texas A&M University, USA.
Speaker 13a: Matthias Simperl, University of Augsburg, Germany.
‘Perceptions of Canon law and its making in the early Roman Liber pontificalis’
Speaker 13b: Benoît Alix, Institut d’Histoire du droit Jean Gaudemet, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assis, France.
‘Gratia non dat licentiam deliquandi. La juridiction épiscopale à l’épreuve de l’exemption (XIIe-XIIIe siècle)’
Speaker 13c: Fabrice Delivré, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.
‘Johannes Andreae on Episcopal Election: Legal Thought, Teaching and Practice’
Session 14: Carolingian Canon Law
Room: Kentish Barn (Canterbury Room)
Moderator: Edward Roberts, University of Kent, UK.
Speaker 14a: Sven Meeder, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.
‘Canonical clusters and social norms in Carolingian collections’
Speaker 14b: Abigail Firey, University of Kentucky, USA.
‘Bridging the Pyrenees? The transmission of Iberian canon law in Carolingian Francia’
Speaker 14c: Kristina Mitalaité, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Vilnius, Lithunia.
‘Quelques traces des polémiques carolingiennes dans les “Fausses décrétales” du Pseudo-Isidore'’
Session 15: Papal rulings and canon law
Room: Claggett Auditorium Balcony.
Moderator: David d’Avray, Jesus College, Oxford, UK..
Speaker 15a: Till Stüber, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, Austria.‘Ad transmarina autem qui putaverit appellandum ...: The North African Prohibition of Appeals to Rome and its Reception in Medieval Canon Law
Speaker 15b: Anne Duggan, King’s College London, UK.
‘Making Law or Not? The Function of Papal Decretals Reconsidered’
Speaker 15c: Vojtech Vladár, Institute of Canon Law, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.‘Stylus Romanae curiae in Medieval Canon Law’
15-15.30: Coffee break
15.30-17.00: Sessions VI
Session 16: International Law
Room: Kentish Barn (DJS Room).
Moderator and Respondent: Dante Fedele, CNRS-Université de Lille, France.
Speaker 16a: Orazio Condorelli, Università di Catania, Italy [Invited Keynote Speaker].
‘Fede, patti, pace e commercio. Variabili e dinamiche del ius gentium nella societas christiana, fra tardo medioevo e prima età moderna’
Speaker 16b: Christian Zendri, University of Trento, Italy.
‘The Antichrist's Law. The Role of Canon Law in the Construction of International Law. Alberico Gentili's De iure belli libri III (1598)’
Session 17: Canon Law in East Francia
Room: Kentish Barn (Canterbury Room).
Moderator: Christof Rolker, Universität Bamberg, Germany.
Speaker 17a: Lotte Kéry, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany.
‘Eid und Meineid im Decretum Burchardi und in den Capitula episcoporum’
Speaker 17b: [WITHDRAWN]
Speaker 17c: Paul Oberholzer, Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Rome, Italy.
‘Veränderungen in den Eigenkirchen des Klosters St. Gallen infolge der Kirchenreform Ludwigs des Frommen.’
Session 18: Texts and Manuscripts in the Age of Gratian and Beyond
Room: Claggett Auditorium Balcony.
Moderator: Anders Winroth, University of Oslo, Norway.
Speaker 18a: François-Régis Ducros, Université Paris-Saclay, France.
‘Canones autem generalium conciliorum a temporibus Constantini coeperunt (Decret., D. 15, c. 1)’ [in French]
Speaker 18b: Paul Evans, University of San Diego, USA.
‘The Vocabulary of Gratian's Decretum: Change Over Time’
Speaker 18c: Gero Dolezalek, University of Aberdeen, Scotland / Universität Leipzig, Germany
‘Palaeographical fashions in commercial production of juridical text books (Survey from before Gratianus 1 and Irnerius up to 1400)’
17.30-18.30: Optional participation in Cathedral Evensong.
18.30-20.00: Reception hosted by Dr Will Adam, Venerable Archdeacon of Canterbury, at Canterbury Cathedral Chapter House and Cloisters.
Wines provided by Press Wine Services (Clive Barlow at the Goods Shed, Canterbury).
18.30-20.0: Poster Session in the Cathedral Chapter House and Cloisters:
Atria Larson, Saint Louis University, USA:
‘Gallery of Glosses: Updates on a Digital Humanities Project Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (USA)’
Corinne Leveleux-Teixeira, École Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris), University of Orléans, France, and Raphaël Eckert, University of Strasbourg, France:
‘The CiSaMe Project: Circulation of medieval knowledge in the 12th century’
Niels Becker, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany:
‘An edition-in-progress of Honorius of Kent’s Summa Quaestionum’
Piotr Alexandrowicz, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
‘Paratexts in the early modern printed editions of the Corpus iuris canonici'
Dinner: Free (List of restaurants in central Canterbury to be provided)
Wednesday (10 July): University of Kent
9-10: Plenary Lecture (Room tbc)
Mia Korpiola, University of Turku, Finland. ‘Canonical Influences on Medieval Swedish Laws – New Perspectives.’
Moderator: Kathleen Cushing, Keele University, UK.
10-10.30: Coffee break
10.30-12.00: Sessions VII
Session 19: Women and Gender in Medieval Canon Law, 1. Overview of the Questions
Room: tbc
Organisers: Greta Austin, Department of Religion, University of Puget Sound, USA, and Gisela Drossbach, Universität Augsburg, Germany.
Moderator and Respondent: Gisela Drossbach
Speaker 19a: Christoph Rolker, Universität Bamberg, Germany [Invited Keynote Speaker].
'Gender Studies in the Middle Ages: Definitions of Sex and Gender in Medieval Law, Theology, and Medicine.'
Speaker 19b: Sara McDougall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA.
'On the Margins of Canon Law: Canon Law in a Woman's Life on the Margins in Late Medieval France.'
Session 20: Juristic Concepts, 1
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Joaquin Sedano, Universidad de Navarra, Spain.
Speaker 20a: Filippo Forlani, Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Rome, Italy.
'La Schiavitù nei canoni conciliari nei sinodi di area franca'.
Speaker 20b: Alessandra Bassani, Università di Milano, Italy.
'Men changed to trees. Slavery in Medieval Canon Law'.
Speaker 20c: Bruno Lemesle, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France.
‘Procedural innovations in the mid-11th century?’
Session 21: Decretist Literature in the Twelfth Century
Room: tbc
Moderator: Anders Winroth, University of Oslo, Norway.
Speaker 21a: Anna Sapir Abulafia, University of Oxford, UK.
'Jews in the late twelfth-century Anglo-Norman Gloss of the Decretum (Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 283/676).'
Speaker 21b: Bruce Brasington, West Texas A&M University, USA
‘Qui multum emungit: A Canonistic Notabilia in Zwettl, Stiftsbibliothek 162.'
Speaker 21c: Dario Binotto, PhD Student, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
'Notes and Reportationes from the Classroom? A Study on Pencil Glosses in Manuscripts of the Decretum Gratiani.'
Session 22: The Practice of Canon Law in the Fifteenth Century
Room: tbc
Moderator: Arnaud Fossier, Université de Bourgogne, France.
Speaker 22a: Élisabeth Lusset, Laboratoire de médiévistique occidentale de Paris, CNRS / Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.
'Petitioning both the Pope and the King of France. A comparative study of letters of pardon (15th century).'
Speaker 22b: [WITHDRAWN]
Speaker 22c: Philipp Lenz, Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, Switzerland.
'The Audacious Plan of Transferring the Monastery of Saint Gall in the 1480s: A legal treatise and its context.'
Session 23: Canon law and the lay experience of pastoral reform, 12th-13th centuries
Room: tbc.
Organiser: Felicity Hill, University of St Andrews, UK.
Moderator: Emily Corran, University College London, UK.
Speaker 23a: John Arnold, University of Cambridge / King’s College Cambridge, UK.
'Firmiter credimus: Canon Law and the Dynamics of Lay Belief.'
Speaker 23b: Patrick Cowley, University of Cambridge, UK.
'The Preaching and Penitential of Bartholomew, bishop of Exeter (d.1184).'
Speaker 23c: Felicity Hill
'Beyond belief: practical knowledge and pastoral care in thirteenth-century England and France.'
Session 24: Canon Law in the Age of Reformations, 1
Moderator and Respondent: Peter Clarke, University of Southampton, UK
Speaker 24a: William Adam, Canterbury Cathedral Chapter, UK [Invited Keynote Speaker].
' Business as usual – the continuation of the granting of dispensations in England after the Ecclesiastical Licences Act 1533'
Speaker 24b: Piotr Alexandrowicz, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
' The Dark Age of Canon Law?'
12-13.30: Lunch (included in Registration Fee)
12-13.30: Private Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Stephan Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon Law (room tbc).
13.30-15.00: Sessions IX
Session 25: Women and Gender in Medieval Canon Law, 2. Women in Normative Texts
Room: tbc
Organisers: Greta Austin, Department of Religion, University of Puget Sound, USA, and Gisela Drossbach, Universität Augsburg, Germany.
Moderator: Gisela Drossbach
Speaker 25a: Amélie Sagasser, German Historical Institute Paris, France / Universität Bamberg, Germany.
'Jewish women in medieval canon law (1000-1290).'
Speaker 25b: Susan L'Engle, Saint Louis University, USA.
'Visions of Women in Medieval Society: Visual Evidence from Illuminators and Law Students in Canon and Roman Law Manuscripts.'
Speaker 25c: Anders Winroth, Universitetet i Oslo, Norway.
'Female Monastic Leaders and the Canon Law.'
Session 26: Ecclesiastical Elections
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Fabrice Delivré, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.
Speaker 26a: Cătălin Rusu, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
'Examining the Esztergom election dispute from Bonae memoriae II (X. I. 5. 4.) through the lens of 13th-century glossators.'
Speaker 26b: Tina Lesley Jessica Holt, University of Lincoln, UK.
'Canon Law and Ecclesiastical Elections: The Application of Canon Law in the Diocese of Lincoln during the Episcopate of Thomas Bek, Bishop of Lincoln (1342-1347).'
Speaker 26c: Lucia De Lorenzo, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose, Bologna, Italy.
'Two treatises de electione. The election of bishops according to Henry of Susa and Lawrence of Somercote.'
Session 27: Scandinavia and Northern Europe
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Mia Korpiola, University of Turku, Finland.
Speaker 27a: Mari-Liis Neubauer, University of Reading, UK.
'From Pagan to Christian: The Canon Law of Baptism in Livonia.'
Speaker 27b: Miriam Tveit, Nord University, Norway.
'Christian laws and “anti-laws”. Introduction of canon law as political argument in medieval Norway.'
Speaker 27c: Dillon Knackstedt, Saint Louis University, USA.
'Mending Norway’s Christian Laws: A New Answer to the Thirteenth-Century Demise of Christian Law.'
Session 28: Canon Law in the Age of Reformations, 2
Room: tbc.
Moderator: William Adam, Canterbury Cathedral Chapter, UK.
Speaker 28a: Olivier Spina, Université Lumière Lyon 2 / Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes, France.
'Is it treason to submit to the laws of the Church in Henry VIII’s England? The denunciations by John Musard (St Mary’s Worcester, 1535-1536).'
Speaker 28b: Ana Luiza Ferreira Gomes Silva, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
'From Thomas Becket to the Iconoclast Fury: violence and spiritual reparation of churches in the works and lectures of Petrus Peckius (1529-89).'
Speaker 28c: Mathias Schmoeckel, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany.
'Getting research on Canon law started: The Role of the French Reformation.'
Session 29: Papal Government and Canon Law
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Barbara Bombi
Speaker 29a: Dante Fedele, CNRS-Université de Lille, France.
'The papal arbitration of 1421 between Poland-Lithuania and the Teutonic Order.'
Speaker 29b: Jesse Harrington, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland.
'The Exercise of Papal Legation in Medieval Ireland: Experiments, Norms, and Practice, 11-13th Centuries.'
Speaker 3: Léa Mellouki, Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, France.
'The struggle against violence towards nuncios in French and German conciliar and synodal legislation (13th-14th c.).'
Session 30: England and Scotland
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Jason Taliadoros, Deakin University, Australia.
Speaker 30a: Matthew Cleary, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany.
'Legitim and Implied Revocation in English Testamentary Law, c.1300-1550.'
Speaker 30b: Édouard Martin, Université Catholique de l’Ouest, Nantes, France.
'King John (1199-1216), Canon Law and the Deposition of Rulers.'
Speaker 30c: Jenny McHugh, Lancaster University, UK.
'Loyalty, faith and service: how was loyalty conceptualised in Scottish oaths of allegiance c.1296 to 1445?'
15-15.30: Coffee break
15.30-17.30: Sessions X
Session 31: Women and Gender in Medieval Canon Law, 3. Women as Legal Actors in Medieval Canon Law
Room: tbc.
Organisers: Greta Austin, Department of Religion, University of Puget Sound, USA, and Gisela Drossbach, Universität Augsburg, Germany.
Moderator: Gisela Drossbach
Speaker 31a: Rachel Stone, King’s College London, UK.
'Inferior by sex but equal by profession: Carolingian canon law versus a rebel nun.'
Speaker 31b: Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Harvard Law School, USA.
'Consent in Medieval English Marriage and Misconduct.'
Speaker 31c: Carolina Gual Silva, Universidade Federal Rural de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
'Gender Relations in Canon Law Texts from the 12th and 13th Centuries: building relations between men and women.'
Speaker 31d: Rosalba Sorice, Università di Catania, Italy.
'Pro honoris sui tutela, alium occidit. Alle radici delle repressive practices dei delitti di genere.'
Session 32: The Latin East and Crusades
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Barbara Bombi
Speaker 32a: Alessandro Scalone, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
'Innocent IV: the experience of the missions and the crusade in the plenitudio potestatis in the papal and juristic activity (1243-1254).'
Speaker 32b: Jennifer Pearce, Nottingham Trent University, UK.
'Canon Law and Religious Minorities in the Latin East (1099-1350).'
Speaker 32c: Jasmin Hauck, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany.
'The Textual History of the Assises of the Crusader States.'
Speaker 32d: Luigi Gennaro, Università degli Studi “Magna Græcia” di Catanzaro, Italy.
'La Calabria e la Terra Santa in un raro privilegio del vescovo Arnulfo di Cosenza.'
Session 33: Courts and Delegated Authority
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Patrick Zutshi, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, UK.
Speaker 33a: Robert Swanson, University of Birmingham, UK / Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China.
“Ego, … procurator, et procuratorie …, dico …”: the casebook of Walter de Eston, proctor in the Court of Arches in the later fourteenth century.'
Speaker 33b: Mark Bateson, Kent Archives Service, UK.
'Beyond its heyday? Some thoughts on papal delegated jurisdiction in the late thirteenth century and early fourteenth century.'
Speaker 33c: Yves Mausen, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
'Causae favorabiles and personae miserabiles, from the ordines iudiciarii to the Year Books.'
Session 34: Researching Medieval Canon Law in the 19th Century: Persons, Works, Methods
Room: tbc.
Organisers: Stephan Dusil, Universität Tübingen, Germany, and Raphaël Eckert, Université de Strasbourg, France.
Moderator: Stephan Dusil.
Speaker 34a: Georg Baumann, Universität Tübingen, Germany
'Paul Fournier. Researching Medieval Canon Law in France around 1900.'
Speaker 34b: Raphaël Eckert.
'Adolphe Tardif (1824 – 1890). The Origins of the Teaching of the History of Canon Law in 19th Century France.'
Speaker 34c: Hannah Heidenreich, Universität Tübingen
'Friedrich Maassen: a bio-bibliographical approach.'
Speaker 34d: Stephan Dusil
'Between Politics and Early Medieval Law: Hermann Wasserschleben'
Session 35: Burchard's Decretum - Production and Reception of canonical knowledge
Room: tbc.
Organiser: Ingrid Baumgärtner, Academy Project ‘Burchards Dekret Digital’, Universität Kassel, Germany.
Moderator: Ingrid Baumgärtner.
Speaker 35a: Elena Vanelli, Academy Project ‘Burchards Dekret Digital’, Universität Kassel, Germany.
'Law as Diagram: Consanguinity in Burchard’s Decretum.'
Speaker 35b: Cornelia Scherer, Academy Project ‘Burchards Dekret Digital’, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
'Educational Texts: Passages from the Works of Isidore of Seville in the Decretum Burchardi.'
Speaker 35c: Daniel Gneckow, Academy Project ‘Burchards Dekret Digital’, Universität Kassel, Germany.
'Burchard’s Decretum in Italy: Manuscript Families and Scribal Interventions.'
Speaker 35d: Melanie Panse-Buchwalter, Academy Project ‘Burchards Dekret Digital’, Universität Kassel, Germany.
'Writing in turns: Scribal hands in Burchard’s Decretum and the digital edition.'
18.00-19.00: Public Lecture (Venue tbc)
Kenneth Pennington, The Catholic University of America, Washington DC, USA.
'The Tyranny of Law: Summum ius, summa iniuria.'
Moderator: Melodie Eichbauer, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA.
19.30: BBQ Dinner – University of Kent, Sibson Building (ticket included in registration fee)
Thursday (11 July): Excursion
9.00: Departure, University of Kent.
9.30-10.30: Reculver Church and Roman Fort
11.30-14.30: Dover Castle (admission included in excursion fee; lunch available in the Castle café but not included)
15.00: Temple Church, Dover
16.00-17.00: Bishopsbourne Parish Church (Memorial to its rector Richard Hooker)
Excursion Lecture: Norman Doe, University of Cardiff, UK
‘Richard Hooker (1554-1600) – Canonist and Civilian’
Moderator: William Adam, Canterbury Cathedral Chapter, UK.
17.30-19.30: The Black Robin Inn, Kingston, Canterbury (Dinner and one beer/wine included in excursion fee; non-alcoholic drinks also included)
Friday (12 July): University of Kent
9-10: Plenary Lecture (Room tbc)
Florence Demoulin-Auzary, Université Paris-Saclay, Paris
‘Les enfants de l’inceste’
Moderator: Anne Lefebvre-Teillard, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, France.
10-10.30: Coffee break
10.30-12.00: Sessions XI
Session 36: Female Religious
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Gisela Drossbach, Universität Augsburg, Germany.
Speaker 36a: Federica Boldrini, Università di Parma, Italy.
‘Discussing the diaconissae. Female deacons in the Decretum Gratiani and in the Decretists (12th-13th c.)’
Speaker 36b: Callum Jamieson, University of Glasgow, UK.
‘Women Religious and the Courts of Papal Judges-Delegate: Evidence from England, c.1130-1216’
Speaker 36c: Natalie Krauss, Saint Louis University, USA.
‘Bonizo’s Women: An Analysis of the Role of Women within the Liber de Vita Christiana’
Session 37: Present and Precedent in the Church Councils of Late Antique Iberia, 1: Before 589 - Authority and Connectivity in the Pre-Visigothic Church
Room: tbc.
Organisers: Graham Barrett and Jamie Wood, University of Lincoln, UK.
Moderator: Graham Barrett.
Speaker 37a: Pablo Poveda Arias, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain.
‘The Bishop as Undisputed Leader? Structures and Balances of Power in the Iberian Church (Fifth and Sixth Centuries)’
Speaker 37b: Rodrigo Furtado, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
‘Aut varia aut dubia aut inordinata: the First and Second Councils of Braga and the State of the Church in Northwestern Iberia in the Mid-Sixth Century’
Speaker 37c: Purificación Ubric Rabaneda, Universidad de Granada, Spain.
‘Conflict, Violence, and Concord in Iberian Church Councils before 589’
Session 38: Local Churches and Canon Law
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Orazio Condorelli, Università di Catania, Italy.
Speaker 38a: Mariangela Galluccio, Università di Messina, Italy.
‘The Clarian Rule in Messina in the 15th century: Saint Eustochia Calafato and the “Code of Messina”’ [Part 1]
Speaker 38b: Marta Tigano, Università di Messina, Italy.
‘The Clarian Rule in Messina in the 15th century: Saint Eustochia Calafato and the “Code of Messina”’ [Part 2]
Speaker 38c: Meghan Lescault, University of Toronto, Canada.
‘Outside the Lines: The Secular Chapter of Nivelles and Canon Law’
Session 39: Late Medieval Poland and Transylvania
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Gergely Kiss, University of Pécs, Hungary.
Speaker 39a: Adinel C. Dincǎ, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania.
‘Testamentary Rights of the Parish Clergy: The Case of the Transylvanian Saxons (1350-1550)’
Speaker 39b: Kacper Górski, Jagiellonian University, Poland.
‘The Influence of Catholic Feast Days on Secular Judiciary in the Early Modern Poland’
Speaker 39c: Maciej Mikuła and Wiktor Dziemski, Jagiellonian University, Poland.
‘The influence of canon law on ius proprium in the Kingdom of Poland in the Jagiellonian era’
Session 40: Gallicanism and Canon Law
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Mathias Schmoeckel, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany..
Speaker 40a: Ambrogio Caiani, University of Kent, UK.
‘Napoleonising Gallicanism, the French Empire and the Four Gallican articles 1807-1813’
Speaker 40b: Nelly Bytchkowsky, Université Clermont-Auvergne, France.
‘La place de l’évêque dans la pensée de Louis de Héricourt’
Speaker 40c: Emilie Gérard, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, France.
‘Le droit canonique comme argument contre la révocation de l’édit de Nantes: l’exemple de l’avocat protestant Charles Ancillon (1659-1715)’
Session 41: Popes and Anti-popes
Room: tbc.
Moderator and Respondent: David d’Avray, Jesus College, Oxford, UK.
Speaker 41a: Danica Summerlin, University of Sheffield, UK [Invited Keynote Speaker]. ‘(Anti-)Popes and Ecclesiastical Law in the Central Middle Ages’
Speaker 41b: Emilie Rosenblieh, Université de Franche-Comté, France.
‘Oath of office and governing program for the pope-elect. An attempt to constitutionalize the papal monarchy in the 15th century’
12-13.30: Lunch (included in Registration Fee).
13.30-15.00: Sessions XII
Session 42: Sexuality and Criminality
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Peter Clarke, University of Southampton, UK.
Speaker 42a: Pietro Mocchi, Parliamentary Archives, London, UK
‘Under the Surface. Hidden legal currents in Opicinus de Canistris’ De preeminentia spiritualis imperii (1329)’ [MOVED FROM SESSION 66].
Speaker 42b: Tess Wingard, University of York, UK.
‘The Construction of the Transgender Legal Subject in High Medieval Canon Law’
Speaker 42c: Kevin Kulp, Goethe Universität Frankfurt-am-Main), Germany.
‘Zwischen Theorie und Praxis. Die Vorschläge der Dekretistik zum Umgang mit geistlichen Sexualstraftätern’
Session 43: Present and Precedent in the Church Councils of Late Antique Iberia, 2: The Secular Church - Property and its Problems in the Iberian Church
Room: tbc.
Organisers: Graham Barrett and Jamie Wood, University of Lincoln, UK.
Moderator: Michael Wuk, University of Lincoln, UK.
Speaker 43a: Carolyn La Rocco, University of St Andrews, UK.
‘Founding and Funding Churches in the Visigothic Kingdom before and after the Third Council of Toledo’
Speaker 43b: Marta Szada, Nicholas Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland.
‘Buying the Gift of God: Payments for Clerical Ordinations and Promotions in the Canons of the Iberian Councils’
Speaker 43c: Jamie Wood.
‘Slavery and Freedom in the Sixth-Century Iberian Canons’
Session 44: Early Medieval Councils and Collections
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Steven Schoenig, Saint Louis University, USA.
Speaker 44a: Gideon de Jong, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
‘“Only God can judge you” – Two attempts at legitimising episcopal privilege compared’
Speaker 44b: Michael Heil, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA.
‘Canon Law and the Three Chapters Schism in Lombard Italy’
Speaker 44c: Christie Pavey, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
‘What has Carthage to do with Jerusalem … or Canterbury? Using conciliar procedure at Carthage 411 as a guide to amplify silenced voices’
Session 45: The Influence of Medieval Canon Law on Modern Legal Practice in Anglicanism and Ecumenism
Room: tbc.
Organiser: Russell Dewhurst, Cardiff University, UK.
Moderator: Norman Doe, Cardiff University, UK.
Speaker 45a: Norman Doe.
‘The Medieval Regulae Iuris in Modern Global Anglicanism and Ecumenism’
Speaker 45b: Russell Dewhurst.
‘The Seal of the Confessional from 1215 to 2024’
Speaker 45c: Morag Ellis, The Arches Court, London, UK.
‘The Office of Notary Public and the Church of England: A Legal Perspective - Ancient and Modern’
Session 46: Medieval Canon Law and Governance: Precursors to Rights in Canon Lawyers and Theologians in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Room: tbc.
Organiser: Jason Taliadoros, Deakin University, Australia.
Moderator: Melodie Eichbauer, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA.
Speaker 46a: Jason Taliadoros.
‘Recent Work on ius naturale: From Tierney to Sol to Saccenti’
Speaker 46b: Ryan Greenwood, University of Minnesota, USA.
‘A Right to Disobey? The Possibility of Resistance to Unjust Wars
Speaker 46c: Thierry Sol, Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Rome, Italy.
‘From the executio potestatis to the potestas iurisdictionis: canonical distinctions and evolutions in the XII and XIII s.’
15-15.30: Coffee break.
15.30-17.00: Sessions XIII
Session 47: Matrimonial Disputes
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Danica Summerlin, University of Sheffield, UK.
Speaker 47a: Tudor Stefanescu, Università ‘Tor Vergata’, Rome, Italy.
‘The problem of adultery, clandestine marriage, and informal consent. New perspectives on a letter sent by Alexander III to the Archbishop of Canterbury’
Speaker 47b: Alexandra Guerson, University of Toronto, Canada, and Dana Wessell Lightfoot, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada.
‘The blending of Christian and Jewish legal practices: bigamy and consanguinity in the converso community of late medieval Girona’
Speaker 47c: Yinwen Mai, University of Leeds, UK.
‘Gilbert Foliot (c.1100-1187)’s Legal Administration: The Case of the Matrimonial Dispute between Agnes of Essex and Aubrey de Vere’
Session 48: Present and Precedent in the Church Councils of Late Antique Iberia, 3: Bishops in Council - Constraints and Contexts for Episcopal Action
Room: tbc.
Organisers: Graham Barrett and Jamie Wood, University of Lincoln, UK.
Moderator: Abigail Firey, University of Kentucky, USA.
Speaker 48a: Michael Wuk, University of Lincoln, UK.
‘Competition’s Payin’ the Price: Bishops, Monks, Authority, and Community in the Visigothic Canons’
Speaker 48b: David Addison, All Souls’ College, Oxford, UK.
‘Sites of Scrutiny: Bishops and their Households in the Visigothic Canons’
Speaker 48c: Graham Barrett.
‘Drawing Back the Conciliar Curtain: Eugenius of Toledo in Council’
Session 49: Judicial Procedure
Room: tbc.
Moderator: tbc
Speaker 49a: Martin Sunnqvist, Lund University, Sweden.
‘Impartiality of Judges: Disregarding Fear, Greed, Hatred and Love’
Speaker 49b: David Magalhães, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
'The transmissibility of the Aquilian liability. The ground-breaking contribution of Medieval Canon Law'.
Speaker 49c: Mirèio Himy Alicheva, Université Paris-Saclay, France.
‘La condamnation de l’exequatur face aux premières revendications de souveraineté’
Session 50: Texts and Practice
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Barbara Bombi, University of Kent, UK.
Speaker 50a: Gergely Kiss, University of Pécs, Hungary.
‘Handbook of the papal tax collector and nuncio Raimundus de Bonofato. The ius commune in the service of practice’
Speaker 50b: Laurent Le Tilly, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, France.
‘La réception du droit romain et du droit canonique dans le formulaire notarial de Bertrand du Pont (1234-1235)’
Speaker 50c: Charles de Miramon, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, France.
‘The Letters of Haymon of Bazoches (†1153) and the writing of his Manual’
Session 51: Legal Responsibility
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Orazio Condorelli, Università di Catania, Italy.
Speaker 51a: Maria d’Arienzo, Università di Napoli, Italy.
‘From the Decretal Si Culpa tua to can. 128 of the Codex iuris Canonici: the evolution of the legal concept of responsibility and compensation for damage in Canon law’
Speaker 51b: Olivier Descamps, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, France.
‘L’apport du ius commune à la responsabilité indirecte’
Speaker 51c: Maurizio Martinelli, Pontificia Università Urbaniana, Rome, Italy.
‘La responsabilità formativa del Magister in un passo della Summa Hostiensis (X, 5,5).’
Session 52: Medieval Canon Law in the Modern World
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Mathias Schmoeckel, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany..
Speaker 52a: David von Mayenburg, Goethe Universität Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
‘The Corpus Iuris Canonici in German - A Translation from the 19th Century: Context and Edition’
Speaker 52b: Sarah Wagner-Wassen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany.
‘The Commune Jus Ecclesium as a Regulative Principle in the Mid-Twentieth Century Episcopal Church: The debate over the sources of authority and application of discipline from medieval canon law’
Speaker 52c: Alexander Jansen, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany.
‘The concept of representation in Niholas Cusanus and Carl Schmitt’
18.00-20.00: Conference Play ‘Thrice to Rome’ (St Dunstan’s parish church, Canterbury; included in Full/Student Registration Fee)
Saturday (13 July)
9-10: Plenary Lecture (Room tbc)
Antonia Fiori, Università di Roma ‘Sapienza’, Italy.
'Gratian reloaded. The problem of the order of the Decretum after Gratian'
Moderator: Barbara Bombi, University of Kent, UK.
10.30-12.00: Sessions XIV
Session 53: Bending the Rules in Medieval Canon Law
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Peter Clarke, University of Southampton, UK.
Speaker 53a: Joaquín Sedano, Universidad de Navarra, Spain.
‘The origins and evolution of the dissolution of a non-consummated marriage by entry into religion’
Speaker 53b: Atria Larson, Saint Louis University, USA.
‘The Jurisprudence of Mercy and Dispensation: A Study of Select Glosses on the Compilationes antiquae and the Liber Extra’
Speaker 53c: Susanne Lepsius, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.
‘Legitimizing illegitimate children in the Papal Lands’
Session 54: Present and Precedent in the Church Councils of Late Antique Iberia, 4:
The Problem of Precedent - Tradition and Innovation in Dialogue
Room: tbc.
Organisers: Graham Barrett and Jamie Wood, University of Lincoln, UK.
Moderator: Jamie Wood.
Speaker 54a: Margarita Vallejo Girvés, Professor of Ancient History, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
‘Theological Controversies between Western and Eastern Churches and their Effects in the Iberian Church before the Third Council of Toledo (589)’
Speaker 54b: Eleonora Dell’Elicine, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina.
‘Ut clerici si solidum praestiterint: Usury, Civil Law, and the Church Fathers in the Sixth-Century Iberian Councils’
Speaker 54c: Molly Lester, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, USA.
‘Penitential Canons and Canonical Precedents in Early Medieval Iberia’
Session 55: The Development and Uses of Extreme Necessity in Medieval Canon Law and Political Discourse
Room: tbc.
Organiser: Mia Korpiola, University of Turku, Finland.
Moderator: Franck Roumy, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, France.
Speaker 55a: Siiri Toiviainen Rø, University of Helsinki, Finland / University of Oslo, Norway.
‘Plucking Grain on the Sabbath: Biblical Interpretation, Legal Discourse, and the Early Christian History of the Canonical Maxim Necessitas non habet legem’
Speaker 55b: Mia Korpiola
‘Si summa necessitas exigat: The Use of Necessity in Synodal Statutes ca. 1170-1520’
Speaker 55c: Virpi Mäkinen, University of Helsinki, Finland.
‘The Application of the Canon Law Maxim Necessitas non habet legem in Late Medieval Political Discourse’
Session 56: Canon Law and the Common Good
Room: tbc.
Moderator: John Burden, Boston College Law School, USA.
Speaker 56a: Hugo Lesueur, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, France.
‘L’Utilitas Publica dans le Décret de Gratien’
Speaker 56b: Raffaella Bianchi Riva, Università di Milano, Italy.
‘From Canon Law to Secular Law: Scandal vs Common Good (13th – 15th Centuries)’
Speaker 56c: Silvia Di Paolo, Università Roma Tre, Italy.
‘Investing the ill-gotten gains in the public good: the ecclesiastical rationality of restitution’
Session 57: Canon Law and Theology
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Abigail Firey, University of Kentucky, USA.
Speaker 57a: Mattheis Lorimor, Saint Louis University, USA.
‘In the Compiler’s Words: Pastoral Care in the Dicta of Bonizo of Sutri’
Speaker 57b: Anzelm Szabolcs Szuromi, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary. ‘Canonical disciplinary interaction on the administration of sacraments in the 7th-9th centuries between East and West’
Speaker 57c: Alessandro Recchia, Pontificia Università Urbaniana, Rome, Italy.
‘Alger and Gratian: A Comparative Analysis of de Misericordia et Iustitia, Cod. Sang. 673 and Decretum Gratiani’
Session 58: Homicide and Procedure
Room: tbc.
Moderator and Respondent: Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Harvard Law School, USA.
Speaker 58a: Sara M. Butler, Ohio State University, USA [Invited Keynote Speaker]
‘Revenge Appeals: Malicious Accusations of Homicide as a Form of Resistance to Ecclesiastical Justice in thirteenth-century England’
Speaker 58b: Alexander Lombardo, University of St Andrews, UK.
‘Royal Punishment of Homicide in England and Francia c. 750-950: A Reappraisal’
12-13.30: Lunch (included in Registration Fee)
13.30-15.00: Sessions XV
Session 59: Consent and Marriage
Room: tbc.
Moderator: David D’Avray, Jesus College, Oxford, UK.
Speaker 59a: Anna Sammassimo, Università di Padova, Italy.
‘Innocent III's contribution to the consensual principle’.
Speaker 59b: Thomas Wetzstein, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany.
‘The theory of marital consent - an intellectual invention and its consequences’
Speaker 59c: Paolo Astorri, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
‘Marriage and Parental Consent in Early Modern Germany: The Use of Canon Law by Johann Gerhard’
Session 60: Clavis canonum Wiki Editathon
Room: tbc.
Organisers: Christof Rolker, Universität Bamberg, Germany, and Danica Summerlin, University of Sheffield, UK.
Session 61: Trade and Economic Activity
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Melodie Eichbauer, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA.
Speaker 61a: Maura Mordini, Università di Siena, Italy.
‘A consilium by Federico Petrucci on the economic activities of monks: an interesting distinction between manufacturing activities and commercial activities’
Speaker 61b: Andreas Thier, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
‘Trading Futures and Canon Law – The Decretal Naviganti (X 5.19.19) and the Canonists’
Speaker 61c: Wout Vandermeulen, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
‘An unexpected turn: the remarkable influence of medieval canon law on early modern mercantilist policies’
Session 62: Late Medieval Jurisprudence
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Rosalba Sorice, Università di Catania, Italy.
Speaker 62a: Alarico Barbagli, Università degli Studi “Magna Græcia” di Catanzaro, Italy.
‘I consilia canonistici di Francesco Accolti’
Speaker 62b: Clemens Freiherr von Gumppenberg, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany.
‘A Franconian Baldus? Albrecht von Eyb (1420-1475) and the collection of his consilia’
Speaker 62c: Lorenzo Sinisi, Università di Genova, Italy.
‘Guristi ed edizioni a stampa del Corpus iuris canonici nel tardo Quattrocento: da Alessandro Nievo a Sebastian Brant’
Session 63: Conciliarism
Room: tbc.
Moderator and Respondent: Kenneth Pennington, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, USA.
Speaker 63a: Joseph Canning, Queens College Cambridge, UK [Invited Keynote Speaker].
‘The Legacy of Conciliarism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: Consent and Representation’
Speaker 63b: Gabriele Bonomelli, University of Kent, UK.
‘The ecclesiology of the Great Schism through the lenses of fiction and satire: a new outlook on heresy, perjury, and the right to try the pontiff’
Session 64: Juristic Concepts, 2
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Jason Taliadoros, Deakin University, Australia.
Speaker 64a: Florian Reverchon, Université Jean-Moulin-Lyon-III, France.
‘La notion de forma dans la doctrine des canonistes (XIIe-XIVe siècle)’
Speaker 64b: Grace Delmolino, University of California, Davis, USA.
‘Contract and Consent: Legal Maxims in Medieval Italian Literature’
15.00-15.30: Coffee break.
15.30-17.30: Sessions XVI
Session 65: The Schools in the Twelfth Century
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Joaquin Sedano, Universidad de Navarra, Spain.
Speaker 65a: John Burden, Boston College Law School, USA.
‘Variations in Names, Dates, and Places in the Early Manuscripts of Gratian’s Decretum’
Speaker 65b: Harry Dondorp, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands.
‘Iura ecclesiastica and ecclesiastical rights’
Speaker 65c: José Miguel Viejo Ximénez, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. ‘Ministri sacrorum canonum et decretorum pontificum’: derecho y sacerdocio en la prima pars de la Concordia discordantium canonum’
Session 66: Texts and Learning, 2 [SESSION WITHDRAWN].
Session 67: Clergy and Discipline
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Florence Demoulin-Auzary, Université Paris-Saclay, France.
Speaker 67a: Patrizia Piccolo, Università di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy.
‘Local clergy and celibacy in Land of Otranto’
Speaker 67b: Alexandre Mimouni, University of Tours, France.
‘De clerico venatore : portrait canonico-théologique du clerc en chasseur’
Speaker 67c: Franck Roumy, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, France.
‘L’origine et la diffusion de la décrétale Inhaerentes (1125; JL 7401 = WH 563) d’Honorius II sur le serment des clercs’
Session 68: Learning and Teaching Canon Law
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Atria Larson, Saint Louis University, USA.
Speaker 68a: Tatiana Petrukhina, University of Oslo, Noway.
‘The Legal Landscape of the Black Monk: Abbot Wibald of Stablo (d. 1158) and His Canon Law Knowledge
Speaker 68b: Thomas Sullivan OSB, Conception Abbey, USA.
‘Parisian Licentiates in Canon Law (1416-1448): Prosopographical Soundings’
Speaker 68c: Wouter Druwé, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
‘Lectures and Consultation Practice at the Louvain Faculty of Canon Law (c. 1430-1445)’
Session 69: Juristic Concepts, 3
Room: tbc.
Moderator: Orazio Condorelli, Università di Catania, Italy.
Speaker 69a: Giovanni Chiodi, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
‘Extradition from Cities and Reigns in the Late Medieval Ius Commune’
Speaker 69b: Giancarlo Ruggiero, Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Rome, Italy.
‘The praevia investigatio in medieval canonical criminal law’
Speaker 69c: Rachel Guillas, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, France.
‘La dimension intentionnelle de la contumace dans la procédure romano-canonique médiévale’
Session 70: Canon Law in the Kingdom of Sicily (12th-15th Century): Rules, Doctrines, and Practices
Room: tbc.
Organiser: Marta Cerrito, University of Palermo, Italy.
Moderator: David De Concilio, University of Padova, Italy.
Speaker 70a: Marta Cerrito.
‘Multiculturalism and the right to procuratio in Norman Sicily’
Speaker 70b: Vincenzo Roberto Imperia, University of Palermo, Italy.
‘Ecclesiae pastoribus carentibus. The administration of vacant churches in the Kingdom of Sicily (12th-13th centuries)’
Speaker 70c: Ignazio Alessi, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
‘Niccolò Tedeschi on the alleged status of Apostolic Legate of the king of Sicily (c. 1430)’
Speaker 70d: Anna Floris, University of Palermo, Italy.
‘In multis delictis innocens punitur propter nocentem: the problem of collective liability in the works of Niccolò Tedeschi (15th century)’
19.30: Closing Reception and Congress Banquet (including the traditional ‘Greetings from the Nations’) University of Kent, Darwin College Conference Suite (included in Full/Student Registration Fee).