The Influence of Canon Law on Medieval Procedural Law

Canon law is the law of the Catholic church, and in the Middle Ages, it played a central role in the development of procedural law that we still see traces of in modern law. The procedural Canon law was practiced in ecclesiastical courts all over Europe, and the topic was the object of interest from many learned jurists. This contributed to Canon law becoming an influential and supranational source of legal development in European law.

The influence of Canon law on procedural law in the Middle Ages is the topic of an international and interdisciplinary seminar hosted by the Faculty of Law on 25th and 26th October. The seminar features the dissemination of new knowledge on the topic and discussions of the possibilities of future research. 

Those interested in the meeting of ecclesiastical and worldly power in the Middle Ages, and those who wish to know more about the function of ecclesiastical courts and the role of the Catholic church in the development of law and society in the Middle Ages, are all very welcome to the Faculty of Law to attend open lectures from leading experts in the field.

The seminar is part of the research project Crossing Jurisdictional Borders: The Influence of Canon Law on Medieval Procedural Law, led by postdoctoral fellow Brage Thunestvedt Hatløy from the Faculty of Law.

The seminar and all papers will be in English.

Open lectures

• Helle Vogt (Professor, University of Copenhagen)
  Canon law, secular law or just medieval law? Law in thirteenth century Scandinavia
   
• Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde (Professor, University of Oslo)
  Poena latae sententiae – A disputed principle in Norwegian medieval law?
   
• Remco van Rhee (Professor, Maastrict University)
  Medieval Canon Law and Civil Litigation at European Superior Courts

• Anders Winroth (Professor, University of Oslo)
  Church courts in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages
   
• Kirsi Salonen (Associate professor, University of Bergen)
  Court processes before the Sacra Romana Rota
   
• Sarah White (Lecturer, Lancaster University)
  Practise and Practitioners: Canon Law and Common Law in Conversation