Programme
Tuesday 21 September
All sessions will take place at Tieteiden Talo, Kirkkokatu 6, 00170 Helsinki.
| 9:30 |
KEYNOTE Room 505 Albrecht Classen (University of Arizona, USA) - The Authority of the Written Word, the Sacred Object, and the Spoken Word. |
| 10:30 | COFFEE |
| 11:00 |
Session 4A: LAW AND AUTHORITY IN LATE MEDIEVAL CITIES Room 505, Chair: Anu Lahtinen, HCAS Maija Ojala (University of Tampere, Finland) - By 10 Mark Brokes - Late Medieval Craft and Guild Statutes. Charlotte Vainio (University of Helsinki, Finland) - The Medieval Wife and the Law - A Study in Guardianship, Prohibitions and Possibilities in Sweden 1350-1442. Krisztina Rábai (University of Szeged, Hungary) - Charters in the Fourteenth-Century Hungarian Kingdom. |
| 11:00 |
Session 4B: AUTHORITATIVE TEXTS AND TEXTUAL AUTHORITIES II Room 404, Chair: Jen Reid, Netherlands Maijastina Kahlos (University of Helsinki, Finland) - Sed antiquiora nostra sunt – The Authority of the Past in Late Antique Debates. James B. Williams (University of Indianapolis, USA) - Legitimizing Apocrypha: The Importance of Marian Apocryphal Texts in Matters of Orthodoxy during the Carolingian Age. Symke Haverkamp (University of St Andrews, Scotland) - Eugippius’ use of Augustine’s authority in the Excerpta ex operibus Sancti Augustini. |
| 12:45 |
LUNCH Restaurant Piano |
| 14:15 |
Session 5A: CONSTRUCTING AUTHORITY IN CHAUCER Room 505, Chair: Leena Kahlas-Tarkka, Helsinki John Martti Hill (U. S. Naval Academy, USA) - Chaucer and a New Auctoritas by Indirection. Christina M. Carlson (Iona College, USA) - Seeing, Hearing, Reading and Writing: Constructing Authority through Structure in Chaucer’s House of Fame. Jacek Kozlowski (University of Helsinki, Finland) - Authority and Insults in Troilus and Criseyde. |
| 14:15 |
Session 5B: THE IDEAL AND THE REAL: AUTHORITY IN ENGLISH LEGAL DOCUMENTS, 1150-1500 Room 404, Chair: Mia Korpiola, Helsinki Robin Sutherland-Harris (University of Toronto, Canada) - Legal Uses of the Medieval English Cartulary. Eileen Kim (University of Toronto, Canada) - “… suum condidit testamentum in hec verba”: Negotiating Authority in the London Husting and Commissary Court Wills, 1350-1485. Nicole Hamonic (University of Tennessee, USA) - Saints, Suffragans and Templars? Authority of Irish Bishops in English Episcopal Indulgences Issued to New Temple, London, in the 12th and 13th Centuries: A Case Study. |
| 15:45 | COFFEE |
| 16:15 |
GALLÉN -PRIZE AWARD LECTURE Room 104 Presentation of the award: Ulla-Maija Forsberg, Vice Rector, University of Helsinki Anders Andrén (University of Stockholm/University of Heidelberg) - The Civil War on Gotland in 1288. Towards an Archaeology of Historical Events. |
| 18:00 |
RECEPTION University of Helsinki, Vice Rector Jukka Kola PUB NIGHT |
