Draft programme:
Tuesday 13 June
13:00. Tea/coffee.
13:45. Despina Iosif (Athens), 'To Fight or not to Fight? Ecclesiastical Laws on Violence and Warfare'
14:45. Jacek Wiewiorowski (Gdańsk), ‘On the origins of legal emblems: selected legal aspects in the insignia of the Notitia Dignitatum’
15:45. Tea/coffee break
16:00. Simon Corcoran (Newcastle), ‘The bilingual world of Justinianic law’
17:00. Anne Alwis (Kent), ‘Hagiographic Voyages with St Ia of Persia’
Wednesday 14 June
09:30. Tea/coffee
10:00. Peter Rothenhöfer (Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai), ‘ad heredes meos pertineat - Oberservations on testaments from 4th century Africa Byzacena’
11:00. Lorena Atzeri (Milan), ‘Women and law in 11th-century Byzantium: Some Legal Cases from the Peira’
12:00. Tea/coffee break
12:15. James Corke-Webster (King’s College London), ‘Legislation, Charges and Christians:
Problems and Solutions’
13:15. Buffet lunch (Room G.09, 26 Gordon Square, History Department, University College London, WC1H 0AG)
Advance booking is required.