2 March 2013
Clore Management Centre, Room 101
Birkbeck College, London
9.30am Registration
9.45am Introductory Comments
10.00am Opening Keynote Address
Dr Ian Forrest (Oriel College, Oxford): Trustworthiness and institution formation in the late middle ages
11.10am Tea & coffee break
11.40am Graduate Session 1: Navigating Jurisdictions within Communities
Chair: Dr John Arnold (Birkbeck College, London)
Anke De Meyer and Prof Peter Stabel (University of Antwerp): Fashioning the self in late medieval courts of law: performance of guild identities in pardon letters and civil court cases in Bruges and Mechelen
Teresa Phipps (University of Nottingham): Urban courts and urban women: legal identity in theory and practice
Kenneth Duggan (King’s College, London):The words of law: how juries in Northumberland navigated jurisdictional boundaries when presenting cases of summary justice in the mid- to late-thirteenth century
1.00pm Lunch
2.00pm Graduate Session 2: Navigating Jurisdictions between Communities
Chair: Dr John Watts (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
Claire Hawes (University of St Andrews): Ideas of authority and the language of burgh statute: Aberdeen in the later fifteenth century
Dr Tomislav Popic (University of Zagreb): The growth of procedural law in the fourteenth-century Dalmatian city communes: civil judicial practice in Zadar
Duncan Hardy (Jesus College, Oxford): Associative solutions to jurisdictional fragmentation in the southwestern Holy Roman Empire, c. 1350-1500
3.20pm Tea & coffee break
3.50pm Closing Keynote Address
Prof Jelle Haemers (University of Leuven): Governance, identity and petitioning in the medieval town (13th-14th centuries)
5.00pm Round-table discussion
Note: We must vacate the Clore Management Centre by 6.00pm.
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Lunch and refreshments will be provided free of charge to all registered participants.
To register, e-mail tomlukejohnson@gmail.com by 15 February 2013. Please indicate in this e-mail any dietary requirements. There is no registration fee.
Sponsors:
Oxford Centre for Medieval History
Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, London
Organisers:
Eliza Hartrich (Merton College, Oxford)
Tom Johnson (Birkbeck College, London)
Samantha Sagui (Fordham University)