Conference: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Reformation EraThe working hypothesis of this conference, jointly organized by the Verein für Reformationsgeschichte and the Society for Reformation Research to mark the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation in 2017, is that the establishment of internal distinctions within Christianity in the wake of the Reformation also altered the relationships and points of reference between Christianity, Judaism and Islam. The upcoming anniversary seems an auspicious moment, for both scholarly and political reasons, to undertake a closer examination of the topic of “Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Reformation Era.”
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Conference: The Bible and the Formation of Legal Authority in Early Medieval EuropeThe aims of this conference are twofold: first, to compare the use (and non-use) of the Bible across canon law, leges, royal capitularies, penitentials and episcopal statutes, and second, to investigate the discussion of legal themes and concerns in biblical exegesis, sermons and moral treatises. The entanglement of biblical and legal material in manuscripts may likewise
be explored. We thus attempt to bridge anachronistic divides between “secular” and “ecclesiastical” law or between certain textual “genres”. The overall goal is to analyze not only the normative function and ideological implications of the recourse to biblical law, but also the political and religious debates which accompanied the formation and implementation of norms.
11 - 13 May, FU Berlin, Admission free; please register with Gerda Heydemann.
Sessions:
I: BIBLICAL LAW, COMMUNICATION AND THE FORGING OF SOCIAL IDENTITY
II: INSULAR MODELS AND INFLUENCES
III: CANON LAW AND PENITENTIAL PRACTICE
IV: BIBLICAL LANGUAGE AND ‘SECULAR’ LAW
V: BIBLICAL EXEGESIS AND LEGAL THOUGHT
VI: BISHOPS AS LEGAL MINDS
VII: PERSPECTIVES
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