The 15th International Congress of Medieval Canon Law will take place in Paris this summer

The Fifteenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law will be held on 17-23 July, 2016, at the University Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), 12, place du Panthéon, 75005, Paris, France The Congress is held under the auspices of the Stephan Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon Law and the Iuris Canonici Medii Aevi Consociatio (ICMAC).

The conference is hosted by the Institut d’histoire du droit at the University Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) in association with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, with the support of the Centre Droit et Sociétés Religieuses of the University Paris-Sud, the École nationale des chartes, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the Centre Michel de L’Hospital of the University of Auvergne.

Heir of the former faculty of law of the University of Paris, the University Panthéon-Assas is the biggest French institution for the studies of Law. History of Canon Law has been taught at the University Panthéon-Assas since 1921, when a chair was created for Paul Fournier (1853-1935). History of Canon Law has also been taught at the École nationale des chartes since 1847 and at the University Paris-Sud in cooperation with the Institut catholique de Paris since 1980.

Plenary Lectures

• Brigitte Basdevant-Gaudemet: Les prérogatives épiscopales à l’égard du clergé paroissial, d’après le Décret de Gratien
• Orazio Condorelli: Antonio da Budrio e le teorie conciliari al tempo del Concilio di Pisa
• Katheleen G. Cushing: Readers and compilers? Monks and canon law in eleventh- and early twelfth-century Italy
• Joseph Goehring: On Reading Gratian’s Decretum
• Richard Helmholz: Duo sunt genera Christianorum (C. 12 q. 1. c. 7): Its interpretation in law and its implementation in practice
• Lotte Kéry: Der Bischof als Vermittler von Recht und Gerechtigkeit in der vorgratianischen Zeit
• Anne Lefebvre Teillard: La Diffusion de la Collection de Gilbert l’Anglais dans la France du Nord
• Mathias Schmoeckel: Das kanonische Recht als Standard

Programme

The programme is not yet finalised. However a list of the expected presentation have been released, and informs that there is expected to be papers presented within the following disposition:

I. Sources

• Pre-classical Sources – 12 lectures
• Classical Sources – 20 lectures
• Post-Classical Sources – 9 lectures

II. Canonical Culture

• General Theory of Law – 5 lectures
• Teaching and Education – 6 lectures
• Canon Law and Secular Law, Power and Society – 17 lectures
• Canon Law, Ecclesiology and Theology – 20 lectures

III. Public Law

• Papacy and papal Government – 34 lectures
• Bishop and Episcopal Government – 8 lectures
• Ecclesiastical Justice – 17 lectures

IV. Private Law

• Law of Persons – 4 lectures
• Marriage Law – 9 lectures
• Contract Law – 4 lectures
• Property Law – 8 lectures
• Succession Law 6 lectures
• Criminal Law – 20 lectures
• Monastic Law – 6 lectures
• Byzantine Law – 4 lectuures

15th International Congress of Medieval Canon Law
July 17-23, 2016 — University Panthéon-Assas (Paris II)

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Manuscript from the Schøyen Collection: Canon Law Practice and Law Texts, Germany 1433. MS 1393 © Schøyen Collection