4th WLC — PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY, 7 SEPTEMBER
9h30 — Welcome and brief introduction
9h40 — Philippa BYRNE (University of Oxford): After Bologna, Before Naples: Jurists and Politics in Sicily and Southern Italy in the Twelfth Century — Discussant: Massimo Vallerani
10h30 — Maria João BRANCO (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): In the Portuguese royal curia between Bologna and Rome: the role of jurists in the consolidation of a budding monarchy (12th-13th centuries) — Discussant: Caroline Burt
11h20 — Coffee break
11h40 — Yves MAUSEN (Université de Fribourg): English Canon Law and the Status of the King — Discussant: Maria João Branco
12h30 — Sara MENZINGER (Università degli Studi Roma Tre): Law in government: the contribution of learned legal thought to the Italian communal experience in the 12th century — Discussant: Philippa Byrne
13h20 — Lunch break
15h00 — Caroline BURT (Pembroke College, Cambridge): The Growth of the State in Thirteenth-Century England through the lens of theory, the common law and its practitioners — Discussant: Yves Mausen
15h50 — Coffee Break
16h10 — Richard PARTINGTON (St John’s College, Cambridge) The law in government service in fourteenth-century England — Discussant: Hillay Zmora
THURSDAY, 8 SEPTEMBER
9h30 — Corinne LEVELEUX-TEIXEIRA (Université d’Orléans): Translating law to transform it. The French translations of the Corpus iuris civilis (XIIIth century) — Discussant: Sara Menzinger
10h20 — Massimo VALLERANI (Università di Torino): Jurists and consultors facing political legislation against bandits: technical solutions and pragmatic law in medieval Bologna — Discussant: Frederik Buylaert
11h10 — Coffee break
11h30 — George GARNETT (University of Oxford): Why Bartolus of Sassoferrato was not a toad with feathers — Discussant: Dante Fedele
12h20 — Dante FEDELE (CNRS-Lille — CHJ UMR 8025): The sea and islands in late medieval juristic thought — Discussant: Corinne Leveleux-Teixeira
13h10 — Lunch break
15h00 — Gisela NAEGLE (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen): Faithfulness and Criticism: Jean Juvénal des Ursins and his Family. Royal Officers between Town and Crown — Discussant: Richard Partington
15h50 — Coffee break
16h10 — Hillay ZMORA (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) Jurists and the Transformation of Politics: Germany in the Late Middle Ages — Discussant: George Garnett
FRIDAY, 9 SEPTEMBER
09h00 — María Ángeles MARTÍN ROMERA (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Serving the queen in late medieval Castile: the professionalization of corregidores and continos — Discussant: Gisela Naegle
09h50 — Serena FERENTE (Universiteit van Amsterdam): Women in office: late medieval jurists and queenship in Naples — Discussant: María Ángeles Martín Romera
10h10 — Coffee break
11h00 — Frederik BUYLAERT (Universiteit Gent), Kaat CAPPELLE (Universiteit Gent) and Klaas VAN GELDER (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) — Princely Legislation and Seigneurial Justice in the County of Flanders, c. 1400–1550 — Discussant: Patrick Lantschner
11h50 — Patrick LANTSCHNER (University College London): Lawyers and the Politics of European and Islamic Cities — Discussant: Serena Ferente
12h40 — Closing remarks
