The sea and islands in late medieval juristic thought

4th Workshop on Legal Culture Jurists and the medieval state 1000-1500 Varieties and Development of a Symbiotic Relationship Lisbon 7-9 September 2022 Organisers Sponsors Programme Wednesday, 7 September 9h30 ⚫ Welcome and brief introduction 9h40 ⚫ Philippa BYRNE University of Oxford « After Bologna, Before Naples: Jurists and Politics in Sicily and Southern Italy in the Twelfth Century » Discussant: Massimo Vallerani 10h30 ⚫ Maria João BRANCO Universidade Nova de Lisboa « In the Portuguese royal curia between Bologna and Rome: the role of jurists in the consolidation of a budding monarchy (12th-13th centuries) » Discussant: Caroline Burt 11h20 ⚫ Coffee break 11h40 ⚫ Yves MAUSEN Université de Fribourg « William of Paull’s use of canon and roman law in the Epistola ad regem Edwardum III » Discussant: Maria João Branco 12h30 ⚫ Sara MENZINGER Università degli Studi Roma Tre « Law in government: the contribution of learned legal thought to the Italian communal experience in the 12th century » Discussant: Philippa Byrne 13h20 ⚫ Lunch break 15h00 ⚫ Caroline BURT Pembroke College, Cambridge « The Growth of the State in Thirteenth-Century England through the lens of theory, the common law and its practitioners » Discussant: Yves Mausen 15h50 ⚫ Coffee Break 16h10 ⚫ Richard PARTINGTON St John’s College, Cambridge « The law in government service in fourteenth-century England » Discussant: Hillay Zmora Thursday, 8 September 9h30 ⚫ Corinne LEVELEUX-TEIXEIRA Université d’Orléans « Translating the law to transform it? The French translations of the Corpus iuris civilis (13th century) » Discussant: Sara Menzinger 10h20 ⚫ Massimo VALLERANI Università di Torino « Jurists and consultors facing political legislation against bandits: technical solutions and pragmatic law in medieval Bologna » Discussant: Frederik Buylaert 11h10 ⚫ Coffee break 11h30 ⚫ George GARNETT University of Oxford « Why Bartolus of Sassoferrato is not a toad with feathers » Discussant: Dante Fedele 12h20 ⚫ Dante FEDELE CNRS-Lille (CHJ UMR 8025) « The sea and islands in late medieval juristic thought » Discussant: Corinne Leveleux-Teixeira 13h10 ⚫ Lunch break 15h00 ⚫ Gisela NAEGLE Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen « Faithfulness and Criticism: Jean Juvénal des Ursins and his Family. Royal Officers between Town and Crown » Discussant: Richard Partington 15h50 ⚫ Coffee break 16h10 ⚫ Hillay ZMORA Ben Gurion University of the Negev « Jurists and the Transformation of Politics: Germany in the Late Middle Ages » Discussant: George Garnett 18h30 ⚫ Concert at Palácio Galveias by the String Quartet of the Orquestra Sinfónica Juvenil, followed by a drinks reception on the belvedere of the palace, offered by the Câmara Municipal de Lisboa Friday, 9 September 09h00 ⚫ María Ángeles MARTÍN ROMERA Universidad Complutense de Madrid « Serving the queen in late medieval Castile: the professionalization of corregidores and continos » Discussant: Gisela Naegle 09h50 ⚫ Serena FERENTE Universiteit van Amsterdam « Gender, property and public office: the queens of Naples and the medieval theory of sovereignty » Discussant: María Ángeles Martín Romera 10h40 ⚫ Coffee break 11h00 ⚫ Frederik BUYLAERT Universiteit Gent Kaat CAPPELLE Universiteit Gent Klaas VAN GELDER Vrije Universiteit Brussel « Princely Legislation and Seigneurial Justice in the County of Flanders, c. 1400-1550 » Discussant: Patrick Lantschner 11h50 ⚫ Patrick LANTSCHNER University College London « Living a Jurist's Life in Late Medieval Bologna » Discussant: Serena Ferente 12h40 ⚫ Closing remarks 13h00 ⚫ Lunch Premise and Goals Historians have long accepted that university trained jurists, both clerical and lay, were instrumental to the development of medieval government. If justice was the cornerstone and the acid test of rulership in the central Middle Ages, its administration and the increasing technicality that is intrinsic to the bureaucratisation of the latter depended on the service of individuals trained in the law, the same ones who made their first headway in the post-Gregorian Church and whom universities in Italy, southern France and elsewhere in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries increasingly turned out in the ius commune mould. The growth of the administrative apparatus of government and the expansion of its claims of authority and control on society combined with the thickening numbers of law graduates to broaden the scope of the service that jurists provided to rulers: from their natural habitats, the court of law and the chancery, they gradually moved into less familiar milieus and roles, such as the treasury and the council, the offices of regional administration and the responsibilities of diplomatic representation. Furthermore, jurists shaped government and politics in more informal and sporadic ways, as publicists and writers of legal consultations, for example. This evolution of the roles jurists played in government as it developed and became more complex throughout the Middle Ages is precisely the theme of this workshop. Specialists in different periods and regions of medieval Europe are invited to reflect ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ on the nature of the service jurists provided to rulers; on the connexion between that service and the transformation of politics and government in a specific period; on the extent to which jurists were agents or instruments of that transformation; on their social extraction, on their typical training and career structure, on the manner of their recruitment and remuneration; on the relative weight of formal and informal service; on the extent to which the ‘politicisation’ of government in the later Middle Ages changed the nature of the service provided by jurists; on the contribution of jurists to the theorisation of government and politics, and on the relationship between their intellectual pursuits and their service to government. Contributors are free to outline a general characterisation or to focus on one or several case-studies, but it is imperative that they reflect on, and try to engage with, the questions above that are relevant to their individual subjects. This will ensure a meaningful basis for discussion and will help to bring out more sharply, and with a modicum of analytical rigour, the stable as well as the dynamic aspects of the service of jurists to the medieval government between 1000 and 1500. Structure of the Workshop The workshop quality of this meeting means that work in progress and experimentation are welcome and debate is privileged. To this end, contributors will be asked to provide a substantial preliminary version or extended summary of their papers — or, ideally, the definitive version of their papers — by 24 August. These preliminary texts will then be circulated among contributors, and each contributor will be asked to prepare a developed commentary on one assigned paper. Papers will be in English. Oral presentations at the workshop will take 20 minutes, followed by 15 minutes for comments by the designated reader and another 15 minutes for general discussion. We think that a concentrated debate, stimulated by a shared reflection and drawing on different scholarly backgrounds and historical sensibilities, is not only a rich and rewarding experience in itself, but also a sound foundation for envisaging a coherent collective publication. Therefore, and notwithstanding the exploratory and open-ended nature of this workshop, we will encourage contributors, in due course, to expand and rework their papers in light of the ideas discussed during the workshop, with a view to their publication in a peer-reviewed thematic volume.