Workshop »Digital Editing« on April 27 and 28
Workshop at the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 2, 55131 Mainz at the 27. and 28. of April 2022.
Registrations in the secretary's office with Mrs. Birgit Peters, email: sekr-mittelalteratuni-kassel.de
Conference Report »Burchard of Worms and the Pre-Gratian Collections« now online
On October 11 and 12, the online conference of the Academy project »Burchard's Decree Digital« took place on the topic »Burchard of Worms and the Pre-Gratian Collections«. For a detailed insight, please refer to the conference report by Elena Vanelli, which can be found on H-Soz-Kult since 18. 11: https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-9152
Announcement online conference »Burchard of Worms and the Pre-Gratian Collections«
On 11 and 12 October, the online conference of the Academy project, »Burchard's Dekret Digital« on the topic »Burchard of Worms and the Pre-Gratian Collections« will take place. The conference focuses on the complex relationships between selected canon law texts and Burchard's Decretum: in part, these served him as a material and formal sources; in part, they received the collection of the bishop of Worms. The event will focus on how exactly these exchanges took place and how they can be detected within the texts. In addition, the discussions will focus on Burchard's vita and questions of editing, topics closely connected with the work in the project.
The event is free of charge and open to the public via Zoom. Please register at https://fau.zoom.us/j/67281641929?pwd=cjlqSG94ejhiUndDVE1qaG5pb0dFdz09 by 10th October 2021.
Programme
Monday 11 October 2021
14.00h Opening
14.15h Martina Giese (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg): Die Überlieferungs- und Editionsgeschichte der Vita Burchardi
15.00h Eric Knibbs (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, München): Welche Pseudoisidor-Handschriften kannte Burchard von Worms?
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16.15h Kathleen Cushing (Keele University/UK): Burchard and the ‘Gregorian’ Collections
17.00h Greta Austin (University of Puget Sound, Tacoma/WA, USA): Burchard’s Decretum and its relationship to the contemporary Collectio duodecim partium
Tuesday 12 October 2021
9.00h Lotte Kéry (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz): Burchards Dekret und seine Quellen – Eine Analyse am Beispiel von Buch XII De periurio
9.45h Cornelia Scherer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg): Westgotische Rechtssammlungen im Decretum Burchardi
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11.00h Christof Rolker (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg): Verbrannt, aber nicht verloren: Ivos Burchard und der Chartreser Codex BM 161
11.45h Wilfried Hartmann (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen): Das Sendhandbuch Reginos von Prüm. Erfahrungen mit einer Edition
12.30 Final discussion
Project presentation report now online
On 18.5.2021, the digital project presentation on Burchards Dekret Digital took place, which generally attracted great interest. Thereby, the project team presented the envisaged project phases, the methodological approaches, the practical experiences with the work and the first interim results. You can find the report at: www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-8976.
Book Presentation Mantics and Law
On 19.1.2021 the anthology »Medieval Legal Texts and Mantic Practices« was presented together with the handbook 'Prognostication in the Medieval World' (https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/522832). A welcome by Klaus Herbers was followed by two greetings from the publishers: Robert Forke spoke on behalf of the publisher (DeGruyter) and Kristin Doepner for Böhlau-Verlag. Agostino Paravicini Bagliani introduced the two-volume handbook on prognostics, emphasising the broad perspective of the contributions, which not only examine Western Christianity and its relationship to mantics and prognostics, but also look at Byzantine, Islamic and Jewish attitudes to it. Ingrid Baumgärtner presented the volume ›Medieval Legal Texts and Mantic Practices‹, which impressively shows the dynamics of canon law. A focus of the Akadmie project ›Burchard's Decree Digital‹, from whose members most of the contributions came. Dr. Hans-Christian Lehner's words of thanks concluded the successful event.
New Publication: Medieval Legal Texts and Mantic Practices
Prognostics, divination, mantics and fortune-telling are frequently present in medieval law. But does the presence of these topics in legal sources justify an inference about practice? Did the individual texts really respond to contemporary practices, or was it perhaps only older traditions that were perpetuated for systematic legal reasons? The answer to this question also determines the status of prognostic practices in the world of life. In this volume, renowned scholars - among them the staff of the Burchard's Decree Digital project - not only analyse the variance and continuity in which the topic of prognostics appears in legal texts of the early and high Middle Ages, but also ask about tradition and its place in life. Of course, the decree of Burchard of Worms is also among the collections examined.
New publication: Birgit Kynast, Tradition and Innovation in Ecclesiastical Law: The Penitential Book in the Decree of Bishop Burchard of Worms
Birgit Kynast's dissertation on the 19th book of the decree of Bishop Burchard of Worms (1000-1025) is now available as a book. The study shows that a differentiated and reflective approach to the canonical tradition was already possible a century before the decree of Magister Gratian and decades before the rise of early scholasticism. In her work, Birgit Kynast investigates and analyses the specific methods Burchard used, especially in compiling the penitential section in the 19th book of his collection: This part of the decree combines tradition and innovation of canon law with regard to the instrument of penance. With the decree, and in particular with its question section, Burchard attempted to make traditional ecclesiastical law applicable. The results will be incorporated into the project work and individual aspects will be examined in greater depth and taken further.