We have accepted the following papers for the SMM conference 2015:
- Adashinskaya, Anna (Central European University, Budapest), Legislation on display: juridical documents as monumental church inscriptions in Byzantium, Serbia and Bulgaria of 13th-15th centuries
- Alfonso, Isabel (CSIC, Madrid), José Miguel Andrade (Santiago), André Evangelista Marques (IEM-NOVA University of Lisbon), Recording judicial information: a comparative approach
- Al-Khoee, Hasan (Institute of Ismaili Studies/School of Oriental and African Studies), The Grand Fatimid Circumcision Ceremonies of the Southern Mediterranean: Ritual and the Fostering of Communal Oath
- Attreed, Lorraine (College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts), The English Umpire and Disputes of Honor: Mediterranean Contacts at the Lancastrian Court in the Early Fifteenth Century
- Barrett, Graham (St John’s, Oxford), Legislation and Codification after Rome
- Bowman, Jeffrey A. (Kenyon College), Women Administering Justice in the High Middle Ages: A Divergence of Rule and Practice
- Buchanan, Elizabeth (Oxford), ‘For my own pressing need’: the adoption (or not) of clauses in Egyptian and Gazan legal documents
- Caravajal, Alvaro, Authority and liability in ninth- and tenth-century Nothwestern Iberia: the evidence from the sanction clauses
- Carlson, Laura (Queen’s University, Canada), Written & Oral Forms of Public Penitence during the Adoptionist Controversy
- Cayrol Bernardo, Laura (Centre de Recherches Historiques, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris), «Hermana del emperador»: (re)constructing the memory of the infanta Sancha Raimúndez (d. 1159)
- Chiarelli, Leonard (Utah), Ibāḍī Community or Communities in Muslim Sicily
- Caciur, Dana-Silvia (Bucharest), Questi tristi Morlacchi: Venetian efforts in reducing the Morlachs incursions in Dalmatia at the middle of the 16th century
- Covaci, Valentina (Amsterdam), Negotiating Orthodoxy through Ritual: Franciscans and Eastern Christians at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Fifteenth Century
- Davies, W. (UCL/ Oxford), Partial (? and impartial) records of judicial practice in northern Iberia pre-1000
- D’Emilio, James (South Florida), Bending the Rules: Tradition, Variation, and Originality in Formulas of Charters from the Kingdom of León (10th-13th Centuries)
- Doubleday, Simon (Hofstra University), Illegitimate Concerns (public lecture)
- Escalona, Julio, Follow the money? Justice and authority in the sanction clauses of tenth-century Castilian charters
- Frisone, Matteo (Bologna), Ordinamenta et consuetudo maris of Trani: the first model of maritime law in Southern Italy?
- Gál, Judit (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), Rituals of Hungarian Royal Visits in Dalmatia in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
- García Velasco Bernal, Rodrigo (Cambridge), Municipal law at the Iberian frontier: the evidence of the fueros and cartas de población during the Iberian Reconquista, c.1050-c.1150
- Gobbitt, Thomas (Institut fürMittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna), Book Culture and Texts of Identity: The Lombard Laws in the Eleventh Century
- Gugel, David (Toronto), “Dix que ell ere coronat”: Tonsured Squires, Criminality, and Questions of Legal Jurisdiction in late medieval Valencia
- Hauck, Jasmin (Università Roma Tre), Marriage Dispensations and Marriage Customs in Renaissance Florence (1460-1530)
- Horváth, Máté (Avicenna Institute for Middle Eastern Studies, Budapest), Satans rising from under the throne: revolts and official narratives from the Fatimid Caliphate
- Ihnat, Kati (Bristol), Law, Liturgy and the Jews in Visigothic Iberia
- Jarrett, Jonathan (Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham), Ceremonies of Property Transfer in Carolingian Catalonia: a model of documented transaction
- Kelly, Michael (Leeds), Trans-Historicality in Early Medieval Hispania: Law as Narrative and Cultural Episteme
- Kuskowski, Ada Maria (Southern Methodist University), A Law of Conquest: Law, Custom and Colonialism in the Crusader States
- Lankila, Tommi P. (Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Princeton University), Islamic Law and ‘Saracen Raids’ in the early medieval Central Mediterranean
- Lev, Yaacov (Bar Ilan University), The Administration of Justice in Fatimid-Ayyubid Egypt
- Luis-Corral, Fernando (Salamanca) and María Pérez Rodríguez (Salamanca), Local Communities and the Uses of Justice in the Kingdom of León
- MacMaster, Thomas (Edinburgh), Out of the Wilderness to the Fleshpots of the Nile: Maintaining the eastern Mediterranean slave supply in the post-Roman world
- Manstetten, Paula (SOAS), Jurists, legal education and politics in 11th-12th century Syria
- Marsham, Andrew (Edinburgh), Rituals of accession in early Islam: a comparative perspective (keynote)
- Martín Viso, Iñaki (Salamanca), Authority and Justice in the shaping of Asturleonese monarchy
- Mataix Ferrandiz, Emilia (Southampton), Lex Rhodia de iactu: an example of the transmission of an Ancient Maritime custom through history
- Moukarzel, Pierre (Lebanese University), The customs adopted in treaties concluded between Mamluk sultans and the Venetian doges (13th-15th centuries)
- Nagy, Péter (Central European University, Budapest), Islamic objects at the Hungarian royal court: Ritual and symbolism during the reign of Béla III (1172–1196)
- Nonveiller, Elena (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris), Paganism in the 7th century in Byzantium: the dynamics of exclusion and inclusion that defined Orthodoxy
- Olsen, Rasmus (Birkbeck), Chronicles as sources for rituals in the early Mamluk period: manifestations of power and protest
- Portass, Robert (Lincoln), Levels of Justice in Tenth-Century Northern Spain
- Powers, James (College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts), War, Violence and Dispute Resolution in Monastic and Secular Romanesque Art: The Ecclesiastical Message in Spain
- Sacchi, Samuele (Bologna), Defending property and reshaping royal authority in Visigothic Spain: the Eighth Council of Toledo and the Lex Visigothorum
- Sandford-Crouch, Clare (Northumbria), The role of clothing in the construction and development of professional legal identities in late medieval Italy
- Santos Salazar, Igor (Trento), Rule through courts: the settlement of disputes in Castile and Tuscany during the tenth-century
- Schut, Kirsty (Toronto), Law and custom in the quodlibeta of John of Naples, OP
- Shelina, Evgeniya (Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Madrid), The Power of Language and the Language of Power in 13th Century Castilian Law
- Simeonova, Liliana (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Maritime Law vs. Customary Rules and Local Regulations in Byzantine and South-Italian Commerce, 9th– 11th Centuries
- Smarandache, Bogdan (Toronto), The Ḥanbalī Emigration of 551 AH/1156 AD from the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in Light of Legal Opinions on Muslims under Non-Muslim Rule
- Stella, Attilio (Tel Aviv University), Is Feudalism Dead? Rituals, Customs and Laws of Fiefs in Medieval Italy
- Viale, Adrian (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Legal elements in papal-imperial communications (6th-7th centuries)
- Vicens, Belen (Notre Dame), Infançones, franchos, and wannabes: Rethinking status and identity in late medieval Aragon
- Wagner, Esther-Miriam (Cambridge), Scribal practice and legal record-keeping in the Cairo Genizah
- Wissa, Myriam (London), Wine, law, custom and ritual in Umayyad Egypt
- Ženka, Josef (Institute of Near Eastern and African Studies, Charles University, Prague), The selection of a new emir and unofficial bay’a in Nasrid Granada (14th and 15th century)
You can register for the conference here.