CFP: Making and Breaking the Rules: Discussions, Implementation and Consequences of Dominican Legislation
6-8 March 2014 at the German Historical Institute, London
This conference will focus exclusively on the Order of Preachers and seeks to examine attempts to introduce order in any area of Dominican life by means of rules and regulations. Among the questions this conference aims to explore are: What circumstances led to the introduction of new legislation and how was it enforced? Which (possibly unexpected) results, in turn, did new legislation bring about? What intellectual discussions preceded or followed from these processes? Papers might also examine definitions of obedience, individual cases of disobedience and consequences of breaking the rules.
This conference is interdisciplinary and open to scholars working in any field of medieval studies. Possible sources include legislative texts issued by the Order of Preachers, to intellectual debates within and outside the Order as well as regulations introduced by other institutions or secular and ecclesiastical rulers aimed specifically at the Dominicans. The proceedings of the conference will be published.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a CV by Saturday, 31 August 2013. All enquiries and proposals should be sent to Cornelia Linde.
