REDISCOVERING THE HIDDEN STRUCTURE: A new appreciation of Juristic texts and Patterns of thought in Late Antiquity A Workshop on the REDHIS Project

Our colleagues at REDHIS are organising a fascinating workshop next month in London:

REDISCOVERING THE HIDDEN STRUCTURE: A new appreciation of Juristic texts and Patterns of thought in Late Antiquity A Workshop on the REDHIS Project

Session one
Friday, 4 December 2015
Copies of classical Jurists’ legal writings

UCL Institute of Advanced Studies,
Seminar Room 11, First Floor, South Wing

09:30 Welcome / Coffee
10:00 Benet Salway (Volterra Project – University College London) Dario Mantovani (Redhis Project – University of Pavia) Introduction

Session chair
Consuelo Carrasco (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid/University College London)

10:30 Serena Ammirati (Redhis Project – University of Pavia) Law and legal literature in late antique West: some preliminary observations

11:30 Marco Fressura (Redhis Project – University of Pavia) Lettura e classificazione di ‘marginalia’ nei papiri giuridici

12:30 Luigi Pellecchi (Redhis Project – University of Pavia) Un Papiniano ritrovato

13:30 Sandwich Lunch

session chair
Gesine Manuwald (University College London)

14:30 Ernest Metzger (University of Glasgow) Revisiting P.Ant. I 22

15:30 Coffee / Tea Break

16:00 Bernard Stolte (University of Groningen) New readings and interpretations of the so-called ‘Dialogus Anatolii’

17:00 Dario Mantovani (Redhis Project – University of Pavia) Il paratesto nei libri dei giuristi romani

Session two
Saturday, 5 December 2015
Classical Legal Thought as a part of the Late Antique Legal Culture

Garden Room, Wilkins Building, UCL

09:30 Coffee

session chair
Paul Mitchell (University College London)

10:00 Salvatore Puliatti (University of Parma) Aspetti di continuità e distacco nell’attività normativa della cancelleria postclassica

11:00 Benet Salway (Volterra Project – University College London) Petitions and response: the interplay of private and imperial rhetoric

12:00 Simon Corcoran (University College London) The lives of the Codex Gregorianus

13:00 Sandwich Lunch

session chair
Simon Corcoran (Volterra Project – University College London)

14:30 David Johnston (University of Edinburgh) Scaevola and Ulpian: preliminary thoughts on two pseudepigrapha

15:30 Michael Crawford (University College London) Thierry of Chartres and Roman law

16:30 Benet Salway (Volterra Project – University College London) Dario Mantovani (Redhis Project – University of Pavia)

See http://redhis.unipv.it/index.php/workshop/23-4-e-5-dicembre-rediscovering-the-hidden-structure

It promises to be an important event.