The workshop aim is to examine one way of dealing with legal plurality: law consolidation, that is any attempt to order a multi-normative environment of an ancient polity. We want to explore the top down approach (attempts of consolidation pursued by the state or state-like authority: codifications, compilation, production of ordering principles), and the bottom-up pursuits of the ordinary users of law (informal collections of similar cases, handbook production, or scribal/notarial tradition). The method is a source-centred analysis, thus the invited speakers – researching broadly comprehended ancient civilisations – shall present sources and invite the audience to discuss them.

Programme

Wednesday, 29 November 2023

Venue: Studiobühne | Domplatz 23 | 48143 Münster

18.15–19.45
Jakub Urbanik (Warsaw)
Ἔθος, Circumcision, and the Egyptian Priests. On Law Application in Roman Egypt
(Altertumswissenschaftliches Forschungskolloquium)

20.00 | Reception in the foyer

Thursday, 30 November 2023

Venue: Käte Hamburger Kolleg | Room 7011 (7th floor)
Servatiiplatz 9 | 48143 Münster

Please note: Due to a cancelled lecture, the conference will not start until 9.45 a.m. on Thursday.

9.45–10.15 | Registration/Opening

Chair: Hans Beck (Münster)

10.15–11.00
Jack W. G. Schropp (Zurich)
Authentisch oder erfunden: Zur Konsolidierung der Klauseln im Friedensvertrag von 197/6 v. Chr. zwischen König Philipp V. von Makedonien und Rom

11.00–11.30 | Coffee break

11.30–12.15
Jan Trosien (Hamburg)
Consolidation of Law in 4th Century BC Athenian nomoi

12.15–13.00
Radosław Miśkiewicz (Warsaw)
Scrutinising the Law and the Legal Discourse in the 5th Century BCE Athens: The Case of Nikomachos and ἀναγραφεῖς τῶν νόμων

13.00–14.30 | Lunch break

Chair: Éva Jakab (Münster/Budapest)

14.30–15.15
Alexandra von Lieven (Münster)
Das juristische Lehrbuch Papyrus Berlin P 23757 rectoin seinem kulturellen Kontext

15.15–16.00
Charikleia Armoni (Cologne)
Φυγαδικαὶ οἰκονομίαι: zu einigen Regelungen in ptolemäischen Amnestiedekreten

16.00–16.30 | Coffee break

16.30–17.15
Patrick Sänger (Münster)
SB X 10494 and the ‘Great Judicial Diagramma‘ of Ptolemy II: Some Considerations

17.15–18.00
Uri Yiftach-Firanko (Tel Aviv)
Ὡς ἴδιον χρέος

19.30 | Conference dinner

Friday, 1 December 2023

Chair: Elsemieke Daalder (Münster)

9.30–10.15
Jakub Urbanik (Warsaw)
The So-called Instruction for the Supervisor of the Privy Purse: What Consolidation?

10.15–11.00
José Luis Alonso (Zurich)
Jurisdictional Discretion and Law Consolidation in Roman Egypt

11.00–11.30 | Coffee break

11.30–12.15
Thomas Kruse (Vienna)
Archive und die Konsoldierung des Rechts

12.15–13.00
Hilmar Klinkott (Kiel)
How to Govern an Empire? The Tomb Inscription of Darius I at Naqsh-i Rustam (DNb) as Legal Text

13.00–14.30 | Lunch break

Chair: Lutz Döring (Münster)

14.30–15.15
Yair Furstenberg (Jerusalem)
Rabbinic Consolidation of Diverse Marital Arrangements into a Coherent Marriage Law

15.15–16.00
Kim Czajkowski (Edinburgh)
P. Yadin 5: Language, Translation and ‘Consolidation’

16.00–16.30 | Coffee break

16.30–17.15
Maria Nowak (Warsaw/Bamberg)
Instrumenta publica: Registration of Land-Related Deeds in 6th Century Egypt

17.15–18.00
Lajos Berkes (Berlin)
The Authority of Imperial Law in Egypt after the Arab Conquest

18.30 | Dinner at the Kolleg

Saturday, 2 December 2023

Chair: Salvatore Marino (Münster/Naples)

9.30–10.15
Marzena Wojtczak (Warsaw)
A Property or an Entity? – Monasteries under the Sway of Imperial Legislation

10.15–11.00
Mario Varvaro (Palermo)
Das edictum perpetuum und die Konsolidierung des ius honorarium

11.10–11.55
Agnieszka Kacprzak (Radom/Graz)
Traditio: Causal or Abstract? Medieval Interpretations of Roman Texts

12.00–12.30 | Sandwiches and farewell

13.00–15.00
Young Researchers Colloquium

Venue: Forschungsstelle Papyrologie | Georgskommende 25 | 48143 Münster

with Georgios Gkogkolakis, Radosław Miśkiewicz, Wiktoria Saracyn, Mareike-Beatrice Stanke and Kacper Żochowski