Seminari 2024
Incontri pensati per approfondire o ampliare le tematiche studiate in FSCIRE, affidati a illustri studiosi e preparati con specifiche letture.
I seminari FSCIRE abbracciano uno spettro d’interessi che eccede e a volte si distanzia dagli oggetti di ricerca più immediati degli allievi della scuola: lo stato dell’esegesi sugli Atti degli apostoli o le questioni legate all’uso del messale post-tridentino nella chiesa cattolica, il pentecostalismo, la teologia evangelicale oggi o il confronto fra diversi sistemi giuridici religiosi i sono alcuni esempi di tematiche per i quali vengono invitati relatori da ogni parte del mondo.
Agenda
N.B.: l’Alta Scuola Giuseppe Alberigo richiede la partecipazione ai suoi seminari per la loro intera durata.
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8 APRILE 2024 | 15.00-18.00
Biblioteca Giuseppe Dossetti, via S. Vitale 114 – 40125 Bologna
(ingresso libero, per info: altascuola@fscire.it)
Seminario di ricerca:
Mario Del Pero, Sciences Po Department of History
Dieci evangelici texani ai Castelli Romani Micro-storia, religione e la guerra fredda globale
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82416616321
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29 APRIL 2024 | 9.00-17.00
30 APRIL 2024 | 9.00-13.00
Dossetty Library, via S. Vitale 114 – 40125 Bologna
(Free entry, for info: altascuola@fscire.it)
Research Seminar:
Rowan Dorin, Stanford University
Demystifying Medieval Canon Law. A Hands-on Introduction to the Sources
The importance of canon law in medieval Europe is well known: from the rules of judicial procedure to disputes over property rights (and of course, the interactions between Christians and their Jewish and Muslim neighbors), few aspects of daily life were left untouched by this legal tradition. Yet given the unwieldy size of the most important collections, the use of stylized Latin vocabulary, and the seemingly impenetrable system of abbreviations, the sources of medieval canon law can appear forbidding to newcomers. Merely trying to follow up a passing legal reference in a medieval text or modern footnote can seem an impossible task, let alone plunging into the legal texts themselves.
This three-part workshop is designed to equip students and scholars with the tools necessary to navigate the principal sources of the canon law tradition as it developed during the Middle Ages.
On Monday morning, we will explore together the structures of the principal genres of academic legal writing, the various citation methods used by medieval jurists and modern scholars, and the most important reference works. For this first part, no background knowledge or skills are necessary, beyond a working reading knowledge of English.
On Monday afternoon, you will put this new knowledge to work, deciphering an unpublished legal opinion by a fourteenth-century Bolognese jurist that offered a summary of the penalties that Catholic canon law could impose on Jews. For this second part, a rudimentary command of Latin is helpful (but not required).
In Tuesday morning's session we will shift our focus to more local contexts, examining the statutes issued by bishops in provincial councils and synods during the later Middle Ages, with a particular focus on Christian relations with non-believers. Together we will explore the emergence of such episcopal legislation and its role in disseminating canonical norms across medieval Latin Christendom. For this third part, a rudimentary command of Latin will be helpful (but it is again not required).
