The Church and the Law
Ecclesiastical History SocietySummer Conference
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
24–26 July 2018
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Plenary sessions and the AGM take place in the Mong Hall; other venues are as indicated.
Meals are taken in the College Hall; refreshments (and the EHS bookstall) are in the lobby of the Mong Hall.
NB: this provisional programme is subject to minor change.
Tuesday 24 July
[1130EHS Committee (Old Library)]
1200Registration opens
1230Lunch
1400Plenary 1 – Rosamond McKitterick (University of Cambridge), Presidential address:‘The Church and the Law in the Early Middle Ages’
1530Afternoon Tea
1600–1730Communications 1
1.1Chair: Brenda Bolton (Trinity College, Whewell)
Christine Walsh, ‘Oath Taking and Oath Breaking: The diffidatio of Robert, Earl of Gloucester’
Charlotte Lewandowski, ‘A new Constitutional History: Reassessing the English Primacy Dispute, 1070–c.1150’
Sarah White, ‘The Procedure and Practice of Witness Testimony in English Ecclesiastical Courts, c.1193–1300’
1.2 Chair: Jacqueline Rose (Court, Wolfson Seminar Room, South)
Esther Counsell, ‘An Elizabethan Puritan Perspective on Church-State Relations: William Stoughton’s An Abstract of certain Acts of Parliament (1583)’
Christy Wang, ‘Puritan Ambiguity in the Polemical Use of Old Testament Theocracy: William Gouge’s Changing Take on English Episcopacy’
Helen Gair, ‘“To the disciplein of the kirk and the civil punishment”: Church Discipline and Secular Cooperation in Early Modern Perth’
1.3 Chair: Elizabeth Tingle (Mong Hall)
[NB: This session consists of 4 x 15-minute papers]
Benedetta Albani, ‘Between Tradition and Innovation: The Congregation of the Council and the Doubts on consuetudo in the Implementation of the Council of Trent’
Alfonso Alibrandi, ‘The Importance of the “Case” in the Congregation of the Council’s Procedural Development’
Constanza López Lamerain‚ ‘The Role of Bishops in colonial Chile: Between Canonical and Secular Law’
Anna Martins, ‘The Brazilian Padroado under the Sign of Doubt’
1.4 Chair: Gareth Atkins (Old Library)
Roger Ottewill, ‘Law Breaking in Hampshire as an Expression of Nonconformist Opposition to the Balfour Education Act, 1903–5’
Marina Wang, ‘Protected by the Constitution or the Treaties: Christian Missions, Native Churches and the Abolition of the “Unequal Treaties” during the Anti-Christian Movement in China (1922–7)’
Jeremy Bonner, ‘What is Truth? Ecclesiology, Law and the Historian Expert Witness in Twenty-First-Century America’
1800Dinner
1945–2115Communications2
2.1 Chair: Sarah James (Mong Hall)
Lucy Sackville, ‘Forgotten Protagonists of Inquisitorial Culture: Bishops in Thirteenth-Century Italy’
Ziang Chen, ‘A Franciscan Commentary on Nicomachean Ethics V: Gerald Odonis and his Ethical Legalism’
Andreas Kofinakis, ‘Tracing Spiritual Franciscan Ecclesiology: Conciliar Arguments against the Authority of Pope John XXII’
2.2 Chair: Ralph Houlbrooke (Old Library)
Martin Roberts, ‘Longland’s Law Men: Edward Watson and the Judges, Lawyers and other Personnel of the Sixteenth-Century Bishop of Lincoln’s Court of Audience’
Laura Flannigan, ‘Conscience and the King’s Councillors in the early Tudor Court of Requests’
John Gwilym Owen and Rebecca Probert, ‘Bigamy, Entails and the Church’
2.3 Chair: Marjorie E. Plummer (Court, Wolfson Seminar Room, South)
Martin Christ, ‘How to Divide a Church: The Early History of Bautzen’s Simultaneum’
Stephen Lazer, ‘The Changing Nature of the Simultaneum in Alsace’
Róisín Watson, ‘Altar Wars: Sharing Church Space in Eighteenth-Century Württemberg’
2.4 Chair: Mark Emerton (Trinity College, Whewell)
Nicholas Dixon, ‘The Church of England and the Legislative Reforms of 1828–32: Revolution or Adjustment?’
George Morris, ‘“A trial against the Catholic body”: Giacinto Achilli v. John Henry Newman’
Norman Doe, ‘Robert Owen: A Victorian Canonist Rediscovered’
2.5 Chair: Catherine Summall (Jesus Lane Seminar Room)
Manfred Henke, ‘Toleration and Repression: Law and Legal Practice in dealing with “Sects” in various German States, 1847–1919’
Clemens van den Berg, ‘Ecumenical Preparations for a Just Peace in an Unjust War, 1937–46’
Ville Jalovaara, ‘The Nomination of Lutheran Bishops by the President of the Republic in Independent Finland’
Wednesday 25 July
0715Eucharist
0800Breakfast
0915Plenary 2 – Magnus Ryan (University of Cambridge), ‘Territoriality revisited in Clement V’s Bull Pastoralis cura’
1045Coffee Break
1115–1245Communications 3
3.1 Chair: Conor O’Brien (Mong Hall)
Fraser McNair, ‘Law and Liturgy in late Carolingian Neustria: Advocacy at St Martin of Tours’
Robert Evans, ‘Dubious Arguments and Decrees of little Use: Christian Historians and Perceptions of the Law in the Late Ninth Century’
Michele Baitieri, ‘The CollectioAnselmo dedicata and the Shaping of Canon Law in Post-Carolingian Italy’
3.2 Chair: Benedict Wiedemann (Court, Wolfson Seminar Room, South)
Danica Summerlin, ‘Conciliar Canons in the Canonical Collections of the Later Twelfth Century’
Tomislav Karlovic, ‘What did William of Tyre learn in School? Church, Roman Law and the Kingdom of Jerusalem’
Marko Petrak, ‘The Letter of Innocent III on the Election of a Byzantine Rite Bishop, 6 February 1198): Legal and Historical Perspectives’
3.3 Chair: Lucy Sackville (Jesus Lane Seminar Room)
Felicity Hill, ‘“General” Excommunications: Pointless Prayers or Effective Legal Processes?’
Sarah James, ‘Reading Lyndwood’s Provinciale: A Contemporary View of Arundel’s Constitutions’
Zosia Edwards, ‘Ob reverentiam Dei et Beate Marie Virginis: Pregnancy and the Death Sentence in Later Medieval England’
3.4 Chair: Martin Christ (Trinity College, Whewell)
Susannah Handley, ‘Both embracing and shunning Jacobean Law: Catholicism and Religious Coexistence in the City of York, 1603–25’
Chelsea Reutcke, ‘“Too Nimble for the Searchers”? The Prosecution of Catholic Print in Restoration England’
Colin Haydon, ‘The English Catholics and the Law in the Eighteenth Century’
3.5 Chair: Norman Doe (Old Library)
Robert Piggott, ‘“Learned in the law”: Norwich and the Church Rate Conflict’
John W. B. Tomlinson, ‘Tracing the Decline of Clerical Magistrates in the Nineteenth Century’
Mark Emerton, ‘Failings in litigating Dissent and Heterodoxy in the English Ecclesiastical Courts: The Long Shadow cast by the Victorian Controversies’
1300Lunch
1400Plenary 3 – Paul Cavill (University of Cambridge), ‘Perjury in Early Tudor England’
1520Afternoon Tea
1550–1650Communications 4
4.1 Chair: Cordelia Warr (Old Parlour)
R. N. Swanson, ‘Neglected Aspects of Ecclesiastical Litigation and Jurisdictional Structures in Late Medieval England’
Arkadiusz Borek, ‘Remissio and causa commissaria. The Division of Competence in Ecclesiastical Courts in Poland at the beginning of the Sixteenth Century: The Case of Kalisz Consistory’
4.2 Chair: Colin Haydon (Court, Wolfson Seminar Room, South)
Dafydd Mills Daniel, ‘Civil Law, Canon Law, and the Moral Law: Anglican Orthodoxy and the British Enlightenment’
Michael Smith, ‘The Law and feeling the Boundaries of Protestant Union in England’
4.3Chair: Hilary Carey (Jesus Lane Seminar Room)
Jaap Geraerts, ‘Caught between Canon and Secular Law: Catholic Marriage Practices in the Dutch Golden Age’
Catherine Summall, ‘When Franz Josef met Eva: Fertility without Marriage in the Gurk Valley, Austria, after the May Laws’
4.4 Chair: Géraldine Vaughan(Trinity College, Whewell)
Ryan Blank, ‘How “Conservative” Were Tractarian Attitudes towards the Royal Supremacy? Evolving Tractarian Thinking, c.1827–50’
Dan Cruickshank, ‘Ritualism, Ecclesiology and Royal Commissions in Late Nineteenth- and early Twentieth-Century England’
4.5 Chair: Mark Smith(Old Library)
Amy Sepinwall, ‘Free Speech as the new Free Exercise’
Tijana Surlan, ‘On the Identity and Equality of Churches and Religious Communities’
1700EHS Annual General Meeting
1800Reception (CUP bookshop; 20% off CUP publications)
1930Conference Dinner
Thursday 26 July
0715Eucharist
0800Breakfast
0900–1030Communications 5
5.1 Chair: R. N. Swanson (Mong Hall)
Samuel Lane, ‘The Bishops and the Deposition of Edward II’
Daniel F. Gosling, ‘Praemunire and the English Episcopate in the Later Medieval Period’
Alison McHardy, ‘Kings’ Courts and Bishops’ Administrations: A Study in Co-operation’
5.2 Chair: Rebecca Probert (Court, Wolfson Seminar Room, South)
Ralph Houlbrooke, ‘The Royal Visitation of 1559: Proceedings in the Eastern Dioceses’
Laurence Kirkpatrick, ‘The Irish Mayflower: People, Places and Problems’
Hilary Carey, ‘Religion, Convicts and the Law’
5.3Chair: Stephen Lazer (Old Library)
Fiona McCall, ‘Secular Law Courts and the Administration of Ecclesiastical Policy following the English Civil War’
Jacqueline Rose, ‘The Church and the Law in History and in Practice: The Case of Bulstrode Whitelocke’
Eloise Davies, ‘English Politics and the Blasphemy Act of 1698’
5.4 Chair: John Tomlinson (Trinity College, Whewell)
Andrew Atherstone, ‘Scripture, Satan and the Sacrament: The Clifton Excommunication Case of 1874–6’
Tim Yung, ‘Keeping up with the Chinese: Constituting and Reconstituting the Chinese Anglican Church in South China, 1899–1951’
Peter Webster, ‘The Church of England, Parliament and the Law, 1943–75’
1030Coffee Break
1100–1230Communications 6
6.1Chair: Fraser McNair (Old Parlour)
Conor O’Brien, ‘Both Secular and Christian: Late Roman Law in the Early Barbarian Kingdoms’
Carol Phoebe Kearns, ‘Consecrated Women in the Codex Theodosianus’
Ilaria Ramelli, ‘The Church and the Law before Slavery: Gregory of Nyssa, Eustathius and the Reaction of the “Church of the Empire”’
6.2 Chair: Charlotte Lewandowski (Court, Wolfson Seminar Room, South)
Ross Kennedy, ‘Templar Attorneys in England: Bridging the Ecclesiastical and Secular Spheres, c.1219–c.1224’
Anna Anisimova, ‘Ecclesiastical Lordship and Development of Urban Law’
Desmond Atkinson, ‘Civil Law: The Path to the Top for the Aspiring Prelate?’
6.3 Chair: Brian Stanley (Jesus Lane Seminar Room)
Adrian M. Deese, ‘The Law, the Logos and the Ethics of Divination in Lijadu’s Ifá (1897)’
Jan Reznik and Sylva Svejdar, ‘Ecclesiastical Property: Czech Debates during the Pre-Reformation and Post-Communist Eras’
6.4 Chair: Peter Webster (Old Library)
Mark Smith, ‘In the Shadow of the Law: Clerical Attitudes to the Introduction of Parochial Church Councils’
Anne C. Brook, ‘The Chancellors’ Dilemma: The Impact of the First World War on the Operation of the Ecclesiastical Exemption’
Grant Masom, ‘Not under the Law? Law, Lawfulness and Legalism in the Local Church, 1919–45’
1245Lunch
1345Plenary 4 – Peter Edge (Oxford Brookes University), ‘Lawyerly Uses and Abuses of History in Law and Religion’
1515Close of Conference
Optional visits for conference participants who are not leaving Cambridge immediately
Please sign up on the sheets provided for the following (maximum duration one hour):
- (Max. numbers 30), Wren Library, Trinity College. Gather at Trinity College Porters’ Lodge at 3.50 p.m. for a special visit to the Wren Library at 4 p.m., led by Professor David McKitterick, former Wren Librarian, Emeritus Honorary Professor of Historical Bibliography and Fellow of Trinity College.
- All Saints Church, Jesus Lane. Now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust, this remarkable church, designed by the Victorian architect G. F. Bodley with Arts and Crafts movement stained glass, stencilled, painted and gilded wall decorations and liturgical furniture is only rarely open to the public. A special visit has been arranged for 4 p.m. Gather in Sidney’s Cloister Court by the Jesus Lane gate at 3.50 p.m. Duration of visit maximum 45 minutes(the key has to be returned to Westcott House before 5 p.m.).
Also recommended
- Cambridge’s medieval churches, especially the Round Church (Sidney Street), Great St Mary’s (Senate House Hill), St Bene’t’s (Bene’t St), St Botolph’s (King’s Parade), Little St Mary’s (Trumpington St), St Edward’s (St Edward’s Passage, off King’s Parade, still with its pulpit from which the Reformation was preached by Thomas Bilney, Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and others).
- The University Library (West Rd), exhibition in the Milstein Exhibition Centre: ‘Tall Tales. Secrets of the Tower’, open Monday–Friday 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
- The Pepys Library, Magdalene College, open to the public Monday–Friday 2–4 p.m.
- The Fitzwilliam Museum (Trumpington St), art and sculpture for three millennia (from the Assyrians and Egyptians to the present day, with particularly fine paintings from the Italian Renaissance to the twentieth century), Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
- Kettles Yard Museum (Castle Hill) (newly refurbished and imaginatively extended; modern arts), 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
- Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Downing St), 10.30 a.m. –4.30 p.m.
NB: There is no conference bar but there are many pubs only a couple of minutes’ walk away, especially in King St (behind Sidney) and Bridge St (an extension of Sidney St), as well down by the river off Silver St.
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