11 Feb 2019 9:45am - 3:00pm Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College, Cambridge

Description

Councils in perspective: A colloquium on Current Projects and New Methodologies in the Research of Late-Antique Christian Synods

Speakers include:

Marek Jankowiak (University of Oxford)
Richard Price  (Heythrop College, University of London)
Rosamond McKitterick (University of Cambridge and the Senior Patristics Seminar (Faculty of Divinity)

 

Part of Byzantine Worlds Research Network Series

Programme

9.45 - 10.00

Arrival

10.00 - 12.30

Conciliar procedure and manuscripts

Richard Price (Heythrop College, University of London)
Conciliar Acts: What and Why

Marek Jankowiak (University of Oxford)
He urged them not to be stubborn or angry (LP 81.4)
The Acts of Constantinople III and the supposed report of the Roman legates in the 'Liber Pontificalis'

Rosamond McKitterick (University of Cambridge)
Early medieval manuscripts of canon law and papal decretals: implications and further questions

12.30 - 13.30

Break 

13.30 - 15.00 E3, Old Court, Clare College Cambridge

Conciliar proceedings in the Roman Empire and beyond

Discussion panel with contributions by

Mark Smith (University of Cambridge) and
Luise Marion Frenkel (Universidade de São Paulo/University of Cambridge )
The texts of the faith of Nicaea in the fifth century

Philip Wood (Aga Khan University)
Synods in the Jacobite church in the early Abbasid period

Thomas Graumann (University of Cambridge)
Councils and their paperwork – open questions

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