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CALL FOR PAPERS TORONTO 2012 format) should be sent as an email attachments to [email protected]. Those unable to send pro- The Fourteenth International Congress of Medieval posals as email attachments send a hard copy Law will be held 5–11 August, 2012, at Saint to: Michael's College in the University of Toronto, Joe Goering Canada. The program committee invites proposals Department of History for papers in any area of Medieval , in- University of Toronto cluding the following: 100 St. George St.  Sources and Texts Toronto, ON M5S 3G3, Canada  Canonical Doctrine  Institutions, Legislation, Procedures NEWS OF ICMAC  Application and Influence  Law, and the Schools Dear ICMAC members, colleagues and all friends of Please include the following information with your medieval canon law, proposal: ICMAC is sponsoring two sessions at the Interna-  Your name and title (Ms., Mr., Dr., Prof., tional Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, etc.) Michigan in May 2011. The first of these is entitled,  Your institutional affiliation ‘Did the Letter of the Law Matter? Church law and social history.’ The second session, co-sponsored  The title of your proposed paper with the organization Episcopus, is called, ‘The  A brief (one paragraph) summary of the Bishop at Work: Tasks, trials and transformations of proposed paper diocesan administration.’ ICMAC has granted Dan-  Your email address ica Summerlin of Queens’ College, Cambridge a  Your postal address travel bursary in order to deliver a paper in the first In addition to individual papers, the program com- session. mittee will also entertain proposals for special ses- ICMAC will hold two social events at Kalamazoo: a sions (3 papers) and panel discussions on a particular BYOS [bring your own sandwich] “business lunch” topic. on Saturday at noon; and a cocktail party on Satur- The deadline for proposals is , 2011. Pro- day, from 5-7 pm. The “business lunch” is posals (in a PDF file, or in Word or WordPerfect extremely informal and everyone is welcome.

Stephan Kuttner Institute Iuris Canonici Medii Aevi Consociatio NOVELLAE of Medieval Canon Law (ICMAC) News of Medieval Canon Law President: Peter Landau President: Kathleen G. Cushing Editor: Anders Winroth Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 2 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/ P.O. Box 208324 D-12344 München, medieval/icmac/ New Haven CT 06520-8324, USA www.kuttner-institute.jura.uni- [email protected] muenchen.de

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Please bring a potential participant or friend along, conference will offer new avenues of research and too. The locations will be stated in the program. discussion. Please join us and bring a potential participant or The two keynote speakers for the conference will be friend to the sessions on canon law, join us with a Dominique Barthélemy (Université Paris Sorbonne – sandwich at our business lunch, and come have a IV) and William Ian Miller (University of Michigan drink on us to wrap things up on Saturday evening. Law School); six invited speakers will offer shorter Greta Austin papers discussing the conference themes within dif- Secretary, ICMAC ferent contextual milieux. We invite proposals from postgraduate and postdoc- CONFERENCES toral scholars from any relevant Mediaeval disci- pline for 20-minute papers, encouraging in particular Eighth Carlsberg Academy conference, Copenhagen considerations of the interactions and relationships 4th to 6th May 2011: Law and marriage in the amongst law, violence and social bonds. Middle Ages and Early Modern times. Keynote Please send abstracts for papers of 20 minutes, of no Speakers: Prof. Charles Donahue, Jr. (Harvard Law more than 250 words, to [email protected]. School) and Prof. Philip L. Reynolds (Emory Uni- The deadline for submission is Friday 11 March versity, Candler School of Theology). 2011. The sessions will address the following aspects of marriage: Marriage and Canon Law, Practicing Mar- ital Law, the Concept of Marriage, Marital Impedi- International Workshop at the Abbey of Fontevraud, ments, Marriage in Late Medieval Cities, Economi- 17-18 October 2011: Jews in the ecclesiastical, cal Aspects of marriage and Strategies of Marriage, Roman-barbarian and Byzantine law (sixth to Family and Kin. eleventh centuries): changes, ruptures, adaptations. This workshop will provide an opportunity for re- The conference will take place, as usually, at the newed reflection on the legal conditions of Jews in beautiful building of Carlsberg Academy, formerly Europe and Byzantium in the early middle ag- the family residence of the founder of the Carlsberg es. Breweries, J. C. Jacobsen, close to the centre of Co- penhagen. For registration: The workshop will address such topics as the status https://webshop.dpu.dk/default.aspx?id=4992. For of the synagogues, liturgical requirements, prohibi- any practical inquiries, please contact: tions concerning sexual relations and commensality, the problem of conversions to Judaism, proselytiz- Helle I. M. Sigh, Institute for History and Area Stud- ing, apostasy, crypto-Judaism, exclusion from public ies, University of Aarhus: [email protected]. functions, or laws concerning property (landed es- Kirsi Salonen, Department of History and Philoso- tates, slaves) and usury. The vast majority of these phy, University of Tampere: [email protected]. measures have their roots in Roman law. Analysis of their reception in both ecclesiastical and secular laws Helle Vogt, of Law, University of Copenha- of Latin Europe and Byzantium should permit us to gen, [email protected]. perceive continuities, adaptations, changes or disrup- tions in legal theory and practice. Law, Violence and Social Bonds, c. 900-1250. Call These proposals are indicative and by no means ex- for papers for a three-day conference entitled 'Law, haustive; other lines of inquiry are welcome. Com- Violence and Social Bonds, c. 900-1250,' hosted by munications will be in French or English and will the St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 17- last 30 minutes. The organizers will pay transporta- 19 2011. tion costs and accommodation for those presenting Considering attitudes towards lawful and unlawful papers. violence in relation to social bonds - be they famili- Those wishing to participate should send, before al, seignorial or spiritual - and bringing together a April 10, 2011, a one-page proposal and full contact number of distinct conceptual approaches, such as details, personal and professional email to lau- anthropology, sociology and prosopography, this [email protected]. We encourage PhD students to apply (please include a recent curriculum

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vitae). The workshop is connected with the dispersed in thousands of academic publications of RELMIN project. specialized literature. The history of academic use of these manuscripts from the 19th century onward will Scientific Committee: be reflected in the form of the records collected. John Tolan, Nicholas de Lange, Capucine Nemo- Several manuscripts will be newly described and Pekelman. Laurence Foschia commented by world-wide known scholars, such as Profs. Bellomo, Bertram, Condorelli, Conte, Dole- MOSAICO PROJECT zalek, Loschiavo, Martino, Vano, Winroth, and oth- ers who will join the project in the near future. In 2008, the Italian Government promoted a research The picture shows a page from Montecassino 266: project presented by a Consortium of Universities Goffredus Tranensis, Apparatus decretalium in the [- CIRSFID (coordinator), Mosaico digital edition by Martin Bertram. Roma Tre University of , Federico II Universi- ty of Naples], named “Piecing together a Mosaic: Describing, Digitizing and Using Medieval Legal RECENT INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS Manuscripts”. The goal of the “Mosaic project” is to create a portal Web 2.0 (online at Magistri Honori Summa ‘De iure canonico tractat- http://mosaico.cirsfid.unibo.it), containing homoge- urus, 2, In memoriam Rudolf Weigand†, ediderunt nous descriptions of medieval codices connected Peter Landau, Waltraud Kozur; adlaborantibus with a collection of digital manuscripts which can be Stephan Haering, Heribert Hallermann, Karin viewed in high resolution. Miethaner-Vent, Martin Petzolt. Monumenta iuris canonici. Series A: Corpus glossatorum 5/2. Città del Vaticano: Bibliotheca apostolica Vaticana, 2010. The text of the Summa of Honorius is now completely edited. It remains to publish a third volume containing indices, which is far along in preparation. Congratulations to the Würzburg team which has been working on it for so long, from the beginning under the leadership of Rudolf Weigand. The team will now continue with the Summa questionum of Honorius.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Esther Cohen, The Modulated Scream: Pain in Late Medieval Culture. Chicago University Press, 2010. 384 pp. A cultural history of pain and suffering, in- cluding one chapter on judicial torture.

Peter Landau, Grundlagen und Geschichte des evangelischen Kirchenrechts and des Staatskirchen- rechts. Jus ecclesiasticum 92. Tübingen: Mohr Sie- beck, 2010. viii + 476 pp. Peter Landau, “Kanonistische Ergänzungen zur Germania und Bohemia Pontificia: Päpstliche Dekretalen an Empfänger im Reich zwischen 1140

und 1198,“ Sacri canones servandi sunt: Ius canoni- The portal provides access to a significant database, cum et status ecclesiae saeculis XIII-XV, ed by Pavel collecting much information about legal manuscripts Krafl. , 2008, 241-257.

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Anne Lefebvre-Teillard, “La circulation des con- Church’s incest prohibitions, you were obli- naissances juridiques au moyen âge: Quelques gated towards all your blood-relatives. This examples,” Rivista di storia del diritto Italiano 81 doctrine applies where: 1) The kin group (2008), 5-14. acted as a legal person towards a third par- ty in cases about paying of wergeld, and Kriston Rennie, Law and Practice in the Age of Re- where the kinsmen collectively took an oath. form: The Legatine Work of Hugh of Die (1073- 2) Rights and obligations between the kin- 1106). Medieval Church Studies 17. Brepols, 2010. dred regulated land transactions either by xiii + 246 pp. € 60. inheritance, donations or sale. Here the ob- Hugh’s efforts in disseminating reform in ligations were at their widest. The moral re- in the , , and were quirement for love and cohesiveness was shaped by his council activity. The manner strengthened by more substantial rules to in which he conducted this business sheds ensure, that land was not transferred at the light on every aspect of his work, revealing expense of kinsmen. not only his personal interpretation and ap- plication of the law, but also his vigour in suppressing clerical marriage, the selling of ZRG: KANONISTISCHE ABTEILUNG church offices, lay investiture, and the gravi- ty with which he conducted his duties as Band 96 (2010), Knut Wolfgang Nörr gewidmet. legate. New light is cast on Hugh’s person- Blumenthal, Uta-Renate, A New Manuscript of the ality and achievements by looking at the na- Exceptiones legum Romanorum Petri ture and influence of his legatine and legal activity in France. Dr. Rennie is Lecturer in Böttcher, Diethelm, Johannes XXII., Ludwig der Medieval History at the University of Bayer und die monitio canonica Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Ernst, Wolfgang , Kanonisches Recht in Savignys „System” Franck Roumy, “La naissance de la notion cano- nique de consanguinitas et sa réception dans le droit Frisch, Michael, Zur Württembergischen Großen civil,” in L’hérédité entre Moyen Âge et Époque mo- Kirchenordnung von 1559 derne: Perspectives historiques, ed. by Maaike van Haering, Stephan OSB, Rudolf Weigand und die der Lugt and Charles de Miramon, Micrologus libra- kirchenrechtliche Mediävistik. Ein Überblick ry 27. Florence, 2008, 41-66. Heckel, Martin, Zur Auswirkung der Konfessionali- Frank Roumy, “Remarques sur l’œuvre canonique sierung auf das Recht im Alten Reich d’Abbon de Fleury,” in Abbon: un abbé de l’an mille, ed. by Annie Dufour and Gillette Labory. Helmholz, Richard, Scandalum in the Medieval Turnhout: Brepols, 2009. Canon Law and in the English Ecclesiastical Courts José Miguel Viejo-Ximénez, “Non omnis error con- Lefebvre-Teillard, Anne, Un dictum Gratiani embar- sensum euacuat: La C. 26 de los Exserpta de Sankt rassant Gallen (Sg),” Iustitia et iudicium: Studi di diritto Rüfner, Thomas, Die gesetzesgleiche Geltung des matrimoniale e processuale canonico in onore di kanonischen Rechts in der Spätantike Antoni Stankiewicz, ed. by Janusz Kowal and Joa- quín Llobell. Vatican City: Libreria editrice Vatica- Salonen, Kirsi, The consistory court of Freising in na, 2010, 617-641. the late Middle Ages Helle Vogt, The Function of Kinship in Medieval Schlinker, Steffen, Die prozessuale Funktion der Nordic Legislation. Leiden: Brill, 2010. 304 pp. € sententia interlocutoria im spätmittelalterlichen ge- 119 / $ 168. lehrten Zivilprozess A strict definition of kinship – a canonical Schmoeckel, Mathias, Dokumentalität. Der Ur- one – was in introduced in to the Nordic kundsbeweis als heimliche „regina probationum“ im medieval legislation, replacing an older, Gemeinen Recht looser one. According to a canonical defini- Sedano, Joaquín, A Comparative Analysis of the tion of kinship – constructed after the Panormia and the Collectio X Partium

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Sommar, Mary E., Ecclesiastical Servi in the Frank- WEB SITES ish and Visigothic Kingdoms There are two new sets of images in the Yale Law Synek, Eva M., „…denn Er ist gütig und menschen- School Rare Book Collection's Flickr galleries: freundlich“. Kirchenrecht als Erfahrungshorizont Tractatus iuris (1549) and Tractatus universi iuris göttlicher philanthropia (1584-86). The images include tables of contents and Theisen , Karl Heinrich, Assessoren und Akzessisten indexes of authors and titles for these two massive am Offizialat im alten Erzbistum Trier (1312–1802) compilations of Roman and canon law scholarship. The images were cropped and edited for legibility, Van Norden, Jörg, Selbständige Kirche, politische not for aesthetics. Kirche, „Ehe von Thron und “? Die Auseinan- dersetzungen um die Verfassung der Evangelischen The 18-volume Tractatus ex variis iuris interpreti- Kirche im Rheinland (1803–1923) bus (1549) was published by a consortium of Lyon printers. Its tall folios contains 458 separate works von Campenhausen, Axel Frhr., Vergangenheitsbe- by over 200 different authors on virtually any topic wältigung in der Kirche. Zugleich ein Beitrag zu den of interest to lawyers and jurists of the time, and „Wochenbriefen“ August Marahrens’ served as a sort of of the ius commune. Topics include arbitration, contracts, heresy, debt, Witte, John Jr. , Rechte, Widerstand und Revolution adultery, taxation, judicial torture, banking, estates, in westlicher Tradition: frühe protestantische Grund- criminal procedure, and the law of war, to name just lagen a very few. Most of the leading authors of medieval Donahue, Jr., Charles, A New Synthesis of the His- and Renaissance jurisprudence are represented, in- tory of Canon Law in the Classical Period, 1140– cluding Baldus, Bartolus, Durandus, Odofredus, 1234 Jean Montaigne, Jacobus de Arena, Johann Olden- dorp, and Guy de la Pape. Landau, Peter, Die Dekretsumme Fecit Moyses ta- bernaculum - ein weiteres Werk der Kölner Kano- nistik Maceratini, Ruggero, Ancora sullo stato giuridico dell‘eretico nel diritto romano e medievale Unterburger, Klaus, Nachahmung des modernen Staates und spiritualistische Waffe gegen ihn - Zu Carlo Fantappiès epochaler Geschichte und Deutung der Kodifizierung des Kirchenrechts von 1917 Manche Besprechungen. In ZRG: Romanistische Abteilung 127 (2010), we note: Loschiavo, Luca, Il codex graecus e le origini del Liber authenticorum. Due contributi alla storia dell’Authenticum Die Praefatio zum Codex Iustinianus von Paul Krü- ger. Übersetzt von Gisela Hillner

A much-expanded edition, the 22-volume Tractatus DISSERTATION universi iuris, was issued in 1584-86 by the Vene- tian publisher and bookseller Francesco Zilletti. It Émilie Rosenblieh defended her dissertation Juridic- contains 754 titles by 362 authors, including several tion conciliaire et juridiction pontificale au temps du jurists who rose to prominence after the publication concile de Bâle (1431-1449). Recours, procédures et of the 1549 edition (i.e. Joost de Damhoudere, Ben- suppliques on , 2010, at Université Pa- venuto Stracca). ris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

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AUDITA ODOFREDI laboration between the German-born Cyrill Jarre, OFM (later archbishop of Jinan, China) and the Chi- After finishing her dissertation on Bigamy in Late nese judge Li Ki Jen. Professor Peng judges the Medieval France at Yale University, Sara McDou- translation very felicitous. Its language harks back gall is teaching at John Jay College of Criminal Jus- beautifully to the ancient legal tradition of China. tice as an assistant professor of history. The college The book is also very handsomely printed. An im- is a part of the City University of New York pressive achievement. (The Code of 1983 has also (CUNY) system. been translated into Chinese). After finishing her dissertation on From Gratian’s Concordia discordantium canonum to Gratian’s Decretum: The Evolution from Teaching Text to Comprehensive Code of Canon Law at the Catholic University of America, Melodie Harris Eichbauer is teaching at the Florida Gulf Coast University as as- sistant professor of history. Among her courses dur- ing the fall semester of 2010 was the history of Ro- man law. After finishing his dissertation on The Papacy and the Use and Understanding of the from the Carolingians to the Early Twelfth Century at Co- lumbia University, Steven Shoenig, S.J., is teaching at St. Louis University as assistant professor. Gregory Roberts, a graduate student at Yale Univer- sity, has won a Fulbright fellowship to Italy for re- search on his dissertation entitled Law enforcement in medieval Italian communes, 1260-1330. He is doing most of his research in the city archives of Bologna with their rich fond of judicial records. The President of the Stephan Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon Law, Peter Landau made a trip to and Taiwan in November to give a number of lectures on topics of interest to medieval canon law. He was joined in Tokyo, Niigata, and Sapporo by the secretary Anders Winroth.

Novellae 6 contained photos from 24 March, 2010, when Peter Landau and Waltraud Kozur gave FROM THE EDITOR Benedict XVI copies of the most recent Institute edi- The editor continues to be most grateful to col- tions. Tom Kuttner now reminds us that 24 March leagues who send him news for the Novellae. I am was Stephan Kuttner’s birthday, in 1907. What a sure that there must exist more relevant recent publi- suitable coincidence! cations that I have overlooked.

CODEX IURIS CANONICI IN CHINESE SUBSCRIPTIONS The 1917 Code of Canon law exists, of course, in For a (free) subscription to Novellae: News of Medi- translations into many languages (just like the 1983 eval Canon Law, or to unsubscribe, please contact Code). Our colleague Peng Xiaoyu (PhD, Catholic our Subscription manager, Mr. Jin U. Kim at University of America, 1998), professor of history at [email protected]. Peking University, has shared a photo of the 1943 translation into Chinese. This was the result of col- Layout by © Two Miles Design

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