International workshop: Second workshop on the Encounter of Legal Cultures in the Nordic Realms 1100-1400; Property Law
The encounter of legal cultures in the Nordic realms was at its most intense in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries. The reason is that familiar and traditional regional laws, statutes for the realms made by monarchs and Church, and the learned law that was analysed, systematized and professionalized through the university study of Roman and canon law, all played simultaneously a role in the legal life and consciousness in the Nordic realms. By the encounter of these three different sets of law, representing different legal cultures, Nordic law in the High Middle Ages was reshaped.
PROGRAMME:
Wednesday 24. March
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee and thee
11.15 – 12.15: Orazio Condorelli (Catania) On the role of the ius decretalium in the diffusion of the culture of the ius commune: Investigations around a decretal of Innocent III to the archbishop of Lund (Ex litteris, X.1.4.2, 1198)
12.15 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 – 14.00: Tore Iversen (Trondheim) From insecure to king-secured land lease. The development of land tenure in three Norwegian High Medieval Laws
14.00 – 15.00: Thomas Lindkvist (Gothenburg) Peasants and Property. The provincial law codes of Sweden
15.00 – 16.00: Anu Lahtinen (Helsinki) House on Sale: Law and Practice in Landed Property Transactions, the Diocese of Turku before 1400
16.00 – 16.30 Refreshments
16.30 – 17.30: Sigbjørn Sønnesyn (Bergen) Thomas Aquinas on the justice of private property
17.30 – 18.30: Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde (Bergen) Tradition, reception and innovation concerning fixed time periods as a criteria for the acquisition and loss of rights according to Norwegian law ca. 1200 till 1274
20.00 Dinner
Thursday 25. March
08.30 – 9.30: Miriam Tveit (Tromsø) Legal principles of inheritance in medieval Western Europe - development according to regional or structural influences?
9.30 – 10.30: Dirk Heirbaut (Gent) Flemish medieval property law – instrument of the aristocratic family
10.30 – 11.00 Refreshments
11.00 – 12.00: Lars Ivar Hansen (Tromsø) Strategies of inheritance and social reproduction among the freeholding peasants of Telemark, Norway
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 – 14.00: Helle I. Møller (Århus) Constructing the property rights in the Danish legal discourses in the 13th and 14th Century
14.00 – 15.00: Agnes Arnorsdóttir (Århus) Canon law and maretal property right from late 13th till early 15th Century
15.15 Taxi to the airport
Programme (pdf)
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