Symposium 1, 2016-2017: Law and Theology
The inaugural VgS online symposium interrogates the issues relating to and the performative roles of ‘Visigothic’ law and theology. The papers will explore the functions, competitions, conflicts and acting-out of legal and theological debates and writings within Visigothic communities, institutions and kingdoms. The Visigoths, who issued constitutions and codes over the course of three centuries, were prolific jurists in their period, and the theologies that emerged from their Iberian kingdom were complex and unique. Law and theology were associated with one another in diverse and intimate ways throughout Visigothic history, from the development of laws and council procedures, to socio-legal salvation histories, to rules of conversion, and so on. At the core of legal and theological rhetoric was the struggle for authority between networks of figures and communities, local and otherwise.
Several general – not prescriptive – questions for this symposium include: To what extent did theology influence law? How did law direct theology? What personal, familial or neighbourly antagonisms, what collections of peoples, what individual goals, and so on, affected the way that law and theology were constructed and performed? How did friendships and/or shared desires impact Visigothic historical representations re: law and theology? Did the categories law and theology represent similar metahistorical aims?
ISSN 2475-7462
Editors: Dolores Castro & Michael J. Kelly
Program
Introduction
- Damián Fernández, Associate Professor, Department of History, Northern Illinois University
- Introduction, pp. i-vii
Panel 1: Theology
- Dolores Castro, PhD Candidate, History Department, University of Buenos Aires
- Eleonora Dell’Elicine, Professor, History Department, National University of General Sarmiento / Assistant Professor, History Department, University of Buenos Aires
- Jacques Elfassi, Director of Classics Department and MCF in Latin Language and Literature, University of Lorraine-Metz
- Isabel Velázquez Soriano, Professor, Department of Latin Philology, Complutense University of Madrid
- Flora Gusmão, Postgraduate, Institute of History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Panel 2: Law
- Ksenia Bonch Reeves, Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Modern Languages, Wright State University
- Michael J. Kelly, Visiting Assistant Professor, Classics and Comparative Literature, SUNY Binghamton
- Ruth Miguel Franco, Professor, Department of Spanish Philology, Classical and Modern, University of the Balearic Islands
- Capucine Nemo-Pekelman, MCF in History of Law, Faculty of Law, Paris West University Nanterre
- Paulo Pachá, Lecturer in Medieval History, School of Social Sciences and History, Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro
Response Papers
- Dolores Castro, PhD Candidate, History Department, University of Buenos Aires
- Eleonora Dell’Elicine, Professor, History Department, National University of General Sarmiento / Assistant Professor, History Department, University of Buenos Aires
- Jacques Elfassi, Director of Classics Department and MCF in Latin Language and Literature, University of Lorraine-Metz
- Flora Gusmão, Postgraduate, Institute of History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Michael J. Kelly, Visiting Assistant Professor, Classics and Comparative Literature, SUNY Binghamton
- Response to Visigothic Symposium I, Panel 2: Law, pp. 217-27
- Capucine Nemo-Pekelman, MCF in History of Law, Faculty of Law, Paris West University Nanterre
- Response to Visigothic Symposium I, Panel 2: Law, pp. 228-33
- Paulo Pachá, Lecturer in Medieval History, School of Social Sciences and History, Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro
- Response to Visigothic Symposium I, Panel 2: Law, pp. 234-41
- Ksenia Bonch Reeves, Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Modern Languages, Wright State University
- Response to Visigothic Symposium I, Panel 2: Law, pp. 242-51
- Isabel Velázquez Soriano, Professor, Department of Latin Philology, Complutense University of Madrid
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