ICMAC at Leeds International Medieval Congress 2019
University of Leeds, 1-4 July 2019
Legal Texts and Their Readers: Using Law in Medieval Europe
Call for Session and Paper Proposals
Iuris canonici medii aevi consociatio (ICMAC) would like to open a call for pre-organised three-paper sessions with a coherent theme and/or proposals for 20-minute papers (preferably in English) under the broad theme ‘Legal Texts and Their Readers: Using Law in Medieval Europe’ to be given at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds, July 2019.
Proposals are welcome on any area or period of medieval canon law from Late Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages under the broad theme ‘Legal Texts and Their Readers: Using Law in Medieval Europe’, including but not limited to the development of legal ideas in the middle ages, the transmission of individual legal texts, treatises or commentaries or of manuscripts of canonical collections, the relationship between the ‘laws’ in the medieval period, non-Latin canon law, the role of authorities such as the papacy and bishops in the creation and development of law, and the terminologies used by modern scholars to define and describe medieval law and their benefits and criticisms. As the theme for the 2019 Leeds Congress is ‘Materialities’, proposals will also be welcome for papers or sessions concerned with the idea of canon law as physical texts and/or objects that informed networks of legal culture or as practice that defined both subjects and objects.[DS1]
Prospective participants are requested to send either a paper title and short abstract (no more than 200 words, but long enough to give a good sense of the proposed topic) or details of a planned session (i.e. title, participants, and abstract of a similar length), along with contact details, to Kate Cushing ([email protected]) and Danica Summerlin ([email protected]) before 28 August 2018.
