The TORCH Oxford Medieval Studies programme is supporting this workshop on 'Authority Beyond the Law: Charismatic and Traditional Authority in Antiquity and the Middle Ages'.
Programme
Registration (9:00-9:15)
Introduction (9:15-9:45): David Barritt (University of Oxford, UK), Authority beyond the law in theory and in practice
Session 1 (9:45-11:15): Chair: Pan Christoforou
Max Lau (Tokyo, Japan), From usurpers to unquestioned autokrators: the construction of Komnenian authority under emperor John II Komnenos
Daniel Unruh (University of Cambridge, UK), Controlling the source: Dionysius I of Syracuse and the spring of Arethusa
Stefano Bernardinello (Florence, Italy), The construction of authority works through an ecclesiastical connection: de Raude family and the church of Milan during the eleventh and twelfth century
Coffee Break (11:15-11:30)
Session 2 (11:30-1:00): Chair: Chris de L’isle
Martin Krijgsman (University of Oxford, UK), ‘He was robed in the fearsome radiance of kingship’: charismatic and traditional authority in Babylon between god and king
Graham Andrews (Oxford, UK), A Crisis of Tradition: The Roman Senate in the Early Third Century CE
Antoine Chabod (Paris, France), Music and wisdom beyond Spartan law
Lunch (1:00-2:00)
Session 3 (2:00-3:30): Chair: David Barritt
Chris de L’isle (University of Oxford, UK), Charismatic failures: the collapse of ancient Greek tyrannies
Pan Christororou (University of Oxford, UK), The curious case of the Caesars: Roman emperors as Weberian shape-shifters
Adam Howe (University Oxford, UK), The substitute king ritual: killing the king to deter the killing of the king
Coffee Break (3:30-3:45)
Session 4 (3:45-5:15): Chair: TBC
Darja Šterbenc Erker (Berlin, Germany), Augustus’ charisma as reflected in Ovid’s Fasti
Agata Paluch (Berlin, Germany), Authority and new interpretations: some remarks on authorising strategies in Jewish mystical texts
Monika Belucz (Budapest, Hungary), The authority of a hidden monk-bishop
Coffee Break (5:15-5:30)
Keynote address (5:30-6:30): Kate Cooper (Manchester, UK), Conflict, charisma and institution-building: Rethinking authority beyond the law
Pub trip
This workshop has been generously funded by a grant from Oxford Medieval Studies at TORCH Humanities, University of Oxford
Oxford Medieval Studies
Contact email: authoritybeyondthelaw@gmail.com
Audience: Open to all