On
behalf of the Coordination Board of the research platform „Hector. Heritage,
Culture, Norms”, we would like to invite you to participate in
the fifth project seminar entitled "Education of Jurists and
the Transfer of Legal Knowledge in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times in
the Context of Prosopographical, Biographical, and Textual Databases".
The
invited guests will be:
Dr
Kaspar Gubler (The University of Bern, Switzerland)
Education
of Jurists and the Transfer of Legal Knowledge in the Context of
Prosopographical and Textual Databases. The example of the Repertorium
Academicum Germanicum (1250-1550)
Prof.
Martin Holý (Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
Law
and Jurists at the University of Prague in the Late Middle Ages and Early
Modern Period
One
of the presented projects will be the Repertorium Academicum Germanicum (RAG) a
digital history research project run by the Institute of History at the
University of Bern. The data basis of the project is formed by the registers of
universities of the old German Empire in the period from 1250 to 1550. The
registers usually contain the names and places of origin of the students as
well as the date of enrolment. This initial data is enriched with biographical
data on subjects studied, professional activities and written works.
Secondly,
during the seminar, it will be discussed the history of institutionalized legal
education in Prague flourished most in the late 14th century. In 1372, after
disputes, the University of Law was independent and enjoyed great student
interest, especially in the following three decades, when over 3,500 students
enrolled in law. The Hussite era, however, marked a significant turning point
in the development of the University of Prague. In addition to law, the Faculty
of Theology and Medicine gradually disappeared as a separate institutions. The
Faculty of Arts also faced several unfavourable trends, particularly the low
number of students and teachers, weakening internationalization, and increasing
regionalization. Among the professors of Prague's Utraquist University in the
late medieval and early modern period, only a few individuals with a law degree
were active - only 3% of the teachers documented between 1458 and 1620. Soon
after their return from foreign studies, the law-educated professors of the University
of Prague preferred other careers, which were, among other things, more
financially secure than their tenure at the Utraquist University of Prague,
which was, moreover, limited by celibacy until 1609, a completely atypical
relic of the earlier period in the Protestant environment abroad.
The event will be held in a hybrid format:
on-site in the conference room at the JU Student Zone (Strefa Studencka UJ)
(św. Anny Street 6 in Cracow) and via the MS TEAMS platform - on the 8th March
2023 (Friday) at 15:00 to 17:00.
If you are interested in taking part in
this seminar, we would kindly ask you to fill in the registration form:
https://forms.office.com/e/DquW6yDyLd
The link to the
event will be sent the day before the event.
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