Medieval legislation or law books from the Middle Ages saw a long history of impact throughout pre-modern times. However, references to medieval legal texts were often kept in the modern era also, in some regions particularly strongly. What did medieval legislations, and legal tradition, mean to modern interpreters? This workshop focuses on the many national and/or conceptual approaches to the relationship between medieval legislation and modernity.
For a full expose of the idea behind the conference, see here (PDF).
The Conference is part of the project Social governance through legislation.
Registration
Please register online no later than 1 June through this registration form.
Program
Wednesday June 14th
1400-1500: Welcome gathering at Professorboligen. Coffee, tea etc.
- Dag Michalsen (Oslo): A workshop on medieval legislation and modernity.
- Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde (Oslo): The research project Social Governance Through Legislation and Magnus Law Code 1274-2024.
1500-1530: Johannes Liebrecht (Zürich): Medievalism and Modernity in Law - introduction
1530-1600: Kjell Åke Modeer (Lund): Medieval Laws as Historical Argumentation at the Breakout of Swedish Modernity (1914 - 1945)
- 1600-1615: Comments
1615-1645: Tomasz Giaro (Warsaw): Europe’s Medievalistic Genealogies and their Rivals
- 1645-1715: Comments
Thursday June 15th
0930-1000: Jean-Louis Halperin (Paris): Medieval legislation of French kings seen by legal historians from 1850 to 1950
- 1000-1015: Comments
1015-1045: Kunal Parker (Miami): Common Law Thought in Mid-Twentieth Century America
- 1045-1100: Comments
1100-1130: Lorren Eldridge (Edinburgh): English Medieval Law and the Property Legislation of 1925
- 1130-1145: Comments
1145-1215: Dirk Heirbaut (Ghent): The failure of medieval legal historians in Belgium
- 12.15-1230: Comments
1230-1330: Lunch
1330-1400: Stephan Dusil (Tübingen): Between Canossa and „Kulturkampf“: Research in medieval canon law in the 19th century
- 1400-1415: Comments
1415-1445: Eduardo Zimmermann (Buenos Aires): Modernity and the Hispanic Colonial Heritage in Nineteenth-Century Latin American Legal Thought
- 1445-1500: Comments
1500-1530: Break, Tea coffee
1530-1600: C. Argyriadis-Kervegan (Paris): The Hexabible - an official but despised source of law into the 19th century Greece
- 1600-1615: Comments
1615-1645: Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde (Oslo): Yes, please both - Textual variations and a new edition of the Code of 1274 medieval
- 1645-1700: Comments
1700-1730: Pierre-Nicolas Barenot (Saint-Étienne): The edition and republication of medieval law in the nineteenth century, until 1850
- 1730-1745: Comments
Friday June 16th
0930-1000: Balázs Rigó (Budapest): Whose reform shall be? Parties, positions and arguments in the political debates of the Hungarian Reform Era
- 1000-1015: Comments
1015-1045: Guillermo Vicente y Guerrero (Zaragoza): Legal culture and medieval legislation in the formation of political modernity in contemporary Spain
- 1045-1100: Comments
1100-1130: Andrew Simpson (Edinburgh): Cosmo Innes’ Nineteenth-Century account of the history of Scots burgh law
- 1130-1145: Comments
1145: Conversation and lunch
Contact
Professor Johannes Liebrecht, Zürich UZH - Lehrstuhl Liebrecht - Prof. Dr. Johannes Liebrecht
Professor Dag Michalsen, Oslo Dag Michalsen - Institutt for offentlig rett (uio.no)