Plenary and Invited Speakers
Plenary Speakers
Prof. David d’Avray (Jesus College, Oxford, UK)
‘Medieval Canon Law in a Comparative Perspective’
Prof. Florence Demoulin-Auzary (Université Paris-Saclay, France)
‘Les enfants de l’inceste’ (Stephan Kuttner Lecture)
Prof. Antonia Fiori (Università di Roma ‘Sapienza’, Italy)
‘Gratian reloaded. The problem of the order of the Decretum after Gratian’
Prof. Ludger Körntgen (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany)
‘Early Medieval Penitentials and Early Medieval Canon Law: an Intricate Relation’
Prof. Mia Korpiola (University of Turku, Finland)
‘Canonical Influences on Medieval Swedish Laws – New Perspectives’
Invited Keynote Speakers
Additionally, the Congress features a special strand on ‘Canon Law and Governance’, which explores how the study of medieval canon law can help inform current public policy debates, notably on the role of international law, electoral systems, constitutional reform, and representative government. A number of invited keynote speakers will feature as part of this strand:
Prof. Sara M. Butler (Ohio State University, USA)
‘Revenge Appeals: Malicious Accusations of Homicide as a Form of Resistance to Ecclesiastical Justice in thirteenth-century England’
Dr Joseph Canning (Queens’ College, Cambridge, UK)
‘The Legacy of Conciliarism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: Consent and Representation’
Prof. Orazio Condorelli (University of Catania, Italy)
‘Fede, patti, pace e commercio. Variabili e dinamiche del ius gentium nella societas christiana, fra tardo medioevo e prima età moderna’
Prof. Christof Rolker (University of Bamberg, Germany)
‘Gender Studies in the Middle Ages: Definitions of Sex and Gender in Medieval Law, Theology, and Medicine’
Dr Danica Summerlin (University of Sheffield, UK)
‘(Anti-)Popes and Ecclesiastical Law in the Central Middle Ages’
Prof. Nicholas Vincent FBA (University of East Anglia, UK)
‘History, Heresy and Humour in the Career of Master Stefano da San Giorgio (d. 1290)’