Gerda Heydemann, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Arbeitsgruppe Frühmittelalter, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Thursday 11 MAY
14.00 ARRIVAL & WELCOME
14.30 Stefan Esders & Gerda Heydemann (Berlin), Introduction
15.00-16.30 SESSION I: BIBLICAL LAW, COMMUNICATION AND THE FORGING OF SOCIAL IDENTITY
Maximilian Diesenberger (ÖAW, Vienna): Preaching the Law: Sermons, the Bible and Legal Discourse in the Ninth Century
Abigail Firey (University of Kentucky), Stranger in a Strange Land: Carolingian Exegetes and Jurists Consider Outsiders, Exile, and Identity
16.30-17.00 Coffee Break
17.00-18.30 SESSION II: INSULAR MODELS AND INFLUENCES
Roy Flechner (University College Dublin), Interpretation Rather than Legislation: Biblical Exegesis in Early Irish Church Law
Sven Meeder (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen), Negotiating the Canonical Rules of the Bible in Irish Canon Law
Friday 12 MAY
09.30- 12.00 SESSION III: CANON LAW AND PENITENTIAL PRACTICE
Cornelia Scherer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), “Lex est emula divinitatis”: Zum Gebrauch biblischer Texte in Rechtssammlungen des Westgotenreichs
Clara Harder (Universität zu Köln), Tradition und Innovation. Die Bedeutung der Bibel in den pseudoisidorischen Fälschungen
Rob Meens (Universiteit Utrecht), The Bible as a Norm in Carolingian Penitentials
12.00-14.00 Lunch Break
14.00-15.30 SESSION IV: BIBLICAL LANGUAGE AND ‘SECULAR’ LAW
Miriam Czock (Universität Duisburg-Essen), Conceptions of Justice in the Carolingian Age
Karl Ubl (Universität zu Köln), Bibel und Recht. Das Florilegium in Paris, BN lat. 10754
15.30-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00-18.30 SESSION V: BIBLICAL EXEGESIS AND LEGAL THOUGHT
Connor O’Brien (Churchill College, Cambridge): “Subiecti estote omni humanae creaturae”: Insular Commentary on 1 Peter 2.13-14 and its Influence on Carolingian Exegesis
Gerda Heydemann (Freie Universität Berlin): The Gospel of Matthew in Carolingian Law and Exegesis
Mayke de Jong (Universiteit Utrecht), “That in the Mouth of Two or Three Witnesses Every Word May Stand” (Mt 18-16). On Paschasius Radbertus, testes and Truth
Saturday 13 MAY
9.00-10.30 SESSION VI: BISHOPS AS LEGAL MINDS
Caroline Chevalier-Royet (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3), Bibel und Patristik im Dienste der politischen Argumentation bei Agobard von Lyon
Charles West (University of Sheffield), “Just as the Law of Moses is the Law of the Jews”: Hincmar of Rheims and the Normative Role of the Bible in Late Carolingian France
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.30 SESSION VII: PERSPECTIVES
Stefan Jurasinski (The College at Brockport, State University of New York), Alfred, the Bible, and the Authority of Written Law: Reassessing the Carolingian Inheritance
Rosamond McKitterick (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge): Conclusive Remarks