News and Events
May 2011
Registration Open - Early Medieval Law in Context
The registration for our conference in Copenhagen in September 2011 is now open here.
For more details about the conference, click here.
February 2011
Call for Papers - Early Medieval Law in Context
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for our two-day conference entitled 'Early Medieval Law in Context', hosted by the Carlsberg Academy, Copenhagen. The conference aims to bring together both established academics and postgraduate and postdoctoral scholars to present research, exchange ideas, and participate in discussion of laws, law-making and legal interpretation in Western Europe in the early middle ages.
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers on themes that might include (but are not limited to):
- Laws and their texts.
- Law-making and law-collecting.
- Law in practice (particularly in relation to or as reflected by codes and treatises).
- The relationship of laws (canon, Roman, royal, local)
- New ways of presenting the laws, in particular using digital technologies.
Proposals, including title, abstract (of 200-300 words) and a brief biographical statement are to be submitted to the Early English Laws project officer: jenny.benham [at] sas.ac.uk
The deadline for submission is Friday 4 March 2011.
January 2011
Early Medieval Law in Context
15 - 16 September 2011, Carlsberg Academy, Copenhagen
We are pleased to announce a two-day conference at the Carlsberg Academy in Copenhagen exploring laws, law-making and legal interpretation in Western Europe in the early middle ages. The conference, organised with funding from the Arts and Humanities Reseacrh Council as part of the Early English Laws project, is a collaboration with the Nordic Medieval Laws project and will draw speakers from Britain, Europe and North America. Professors Bruce O'Brien (IHR, London/University of Mary Washington), Stefan Brink (Aberdeen), Ditlev Tamm (Copenhagen) and John Hines (Cardiff) will be among the speakers.
February 2010
Early English Laws is offering 20 bursaries worth £2,000 each to assist scholars in the preparation of editions of early English legal texts for publication as part of this AHRC-funded project. Eligible expenses include travel, accommodation, and reproduction and permission fees. Guidelines for proposals, together with a list of possible texts, are available on the Early English Laws website here. If you have any enquiries, please contact the Project Officer Jenny Benham (jenny.benham[at]sas.ac.uk).
Digital editing workshop
Thursday 18 November 2010, Institute of Historical Research, University of London