(Source: EHS)
We learned of a
Call for Proposals for the EHS’ Winter Meeting 2019. Here the call:
12 January
2019, Winter Meeting
Institute of Historical Research, London
The Winter
Meeting continues with the 57th Summer Conference theme of The Church
and the Law. As ever, the intention is to attract a broad spectrum of papers
from across the history of Christianity.
Proposal
forms for the Winter Meeting are available here. The deadline for proposals of 20-minute papers on the theme
is 31 October 2018. Booking forms will be made available later this
year and will be accompanied by an amended conference poster.
This theme
addresses the legal issues and legal consequences underlying relations between
secular and religious authorities in the context of the Christian church, from
its earliest emergence within Roman Palestine as a persecuted minority sect
through to the period when it became legally recognised within the Roman
empire, its many institutional manifestations in East and West throughout the
middle ages, the reconfigurations associated with the Reformation and Counter-
Reformation, the legal and constitutional complications (such as in Reformation
England or Calvin’s Geneva), and the variable consequences of so-called
secularisation thereafter. On many occasions in recent years, moreover, we have
been confronted with contemporary discrepancies, contradictions, and even
rejection of secular laws, modern social mores or social attitudes. What were
the legal consequences and implications of the Reformation, (including the
confiscation and restitution of property), of the French wars of religion; the
French Revolution; the political transformations of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries? Are there particular influences on the formation of
ecclesiastical law (the Bible, Roman law, national law codes)? The engagement of
secular and religious authorities with the law and what that law actually
comprised (Roman law, canon law, national laws, state and royal edicts) are
further issues to be addressed. This is also a theme that requires the
examination of the formation of bodies of law and how and why it became
recognised as law. The formation of canon law is a case in point. There is also
the problem of definition. How early, for example, can a ‘code of canon law’ be
defined, and what are the processes by which opinion and conciliar decision
became perceived as ‘law’? What light does the transmission and reception of
‘canon law’ throw on such questions?
Delegates are encouraged to range widely
within the theme. Possible case studies might include:
- court cases
- legal challenges to authority
- discussions of legal culture and legal practice
- legally orchestrated clashes between secular and ecclesiastical law
- legal documents of many kinds
- legal challenges to authority
- discussions of legal culture and legal practice
- legally orchestrated clashes between secular and ecclesiastical law
- legal documents of many kinds
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