Volterra II Colloquium II

Projet Volterra II: Law and the End of Empire
Workshop 2 on the afterlife of Roman law:
“Authorities and Subjects” and “Manuals and Jurisprudence”
Monday-Tuesday 15-16 September 2008
History Department
University College London

PROGRAMME

Location: Room G.09/10, History Department, University College London, 26 Gordon Square

Monday 15 September
10.45 Coffee and welcome
11.15 Introduction
11.30 Michael Crawford (UCL): “Law and the cultivated between Romans and Franks”
13.00 lunch
14.00 Gero Dolezalek (Aberdeen): “Dissemination of glossed manuscripts of the Corpus iuris civilis in the twelfth century”
15.30 Tea
16.00 Simon Corcoran (UCL): “Observations on some eighth- and ninth-century charters”
17.30 Dario Mantovani (Pavia): a) “Il Digesto nel medioevo fra realtà e idea: il Corpus gromaticorum” and b) “Lorenzo Valla”
18.00 Reception

Tuesday 16 September
10.15 coffee
10.45 Benet Salway (UCL): “Between east and west: Vat. Reg. 886 revisited”
11.45 Santiago Castellanos (León): ” ‘Ut colonis est consuetudo.’ Where were the coloni in post-Roman Spain?”
13.00 lunch
14.00 Wolfgang Kaiser(Freiburg): “On the compilation of the Collectio Gaudenziana”
15.30 Tea
16.00 Magnus Ryan (Peterhouse, Cambridge): “The Carolingians and the Roman Law: A Balance”
17:15 close