The aim of this workshop is to explore the rise of the modern state through the lenses of police law, understood as a mode of administrative law given the background of changing notions of God and society after the Reformation. The police law is viewed from a local, regional and national perspective. Likewise, the police law will be looked at as ideology and normative practice, and historical lines will be drawn from the middle Ages until 1814.
PROGRAM
Thursday 15 September
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.30 Key-note lecture: Professor Karl Härter, Max Planck Institute for legal history and legal theory (Frankfurt): The policing of religious diversity and deviance through early modern administrative law (police ordinances)
14.30-15.00 Coffee break
15.00-16.30 Andreas Mazetti Anderson (Uppsala): Conflicting Models of Independence and Unity in the State during the Interdict Controversy of 1606 and 1607
Paolo Astorri and Lars Nørgaard (Copenhagen): The Limits of “potestas”: Church and state in Henning Arnisaeus (1576-1636), Dietrich Reinking (1590-1664), and Hans Wandal (1624-1675)
16.30-17.00 Coffee break
17.00-18.30 Jørgen Mührmann-Lund (Aarhus): Policing religious minorities in Copenhagen 1682 1731
Per Kristian Aschim (Oslo): Religious tolerance and policy: The Norwegian Dissenters Act (1845) and contemporary theory of Religion and State
Friday 16 September
09.00-11.00 Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde (Oslo): Policing the Norwegian realm in the Middle Ages: Competence from God and communal order
Maria Nørby Pedersen (Aarhus): Caring for the poor: A Christian and Kingly responsibility in early modern Denmark
Geir Heivoll (Oslo): Policing Christian morals: State, police and ecclesiastical practices in Denmark and Norway 1730-1850
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.00 Lars Kvestad (Bergen): Norwegian judicial activism through the lens of trust and religion in the 18th and 19th centuries
Sjur Atle Furali (Oslo): The Parish Priest's Assistants in the Danish Code
13.00-14.00 Lunch and departure