Religion, Family and Conflict - A Cross-Cultural Approach to Succession and Inheritance in the Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean

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Religion, Family and Conflict - A Cross-Cultural Approach to Succession and Inheritance in the Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean

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PD Dr. Sabine R. Huebner, FU Berlin/ Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, Rome Dr. Beatrice Caseau-Chevalier, Sorbonne/Collège de France
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Collège de France, 11, place Marcelin Berthelot - 75005 Paris
Ort
Paris
Land
France
Vom - Bis
21.03.2013 - 23.03.2013
Website
http://www.sabine.r.huebner.net
Von
PD Dr. Sabine R. Huebner

International Conference at the Collège de France in Paris from March 21-23, 2013

The conference brings together approaches from different regions and sub-disciplines by a group of international scholars working on patterns of and conflicts around succession and inheritance, a topic which has received surprisingly little attention by historians and anthropologists interested in the family so far, but lies, as we believe, at the heart of all family strategies affecting household composition, intergenerational relations, and the organization of old age care.

We have invited some of the foremost scholars in the field to debate these issues. Papers will deal with the subject through time from archaic Greece up the late Middle Ages, considering jurisprudence and legal cases in the civil laws of the Greeks, the Romans and the Byzantines, and taking into account the religious laws of pagans, Jews, Christians and Muslims.

The conference languages are English, French and German.

To register for the event, please contact: sabine.r.huebner@gmail.com.

This event has been generously supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Laboratoire d’Excellence "Religion et Sociétés dans le Monde Méditerranéen" (Labex RESMED), Collège de France, and the Unité Mixte de Recherche „Orient &
Méditerranée” (UMR 8167), CNRS, Paris.

Programm

March 21, 2013 (Collège de France, 11, place Marcelin Berthelot - 75005 Paris):

9:00 Welcome and introduction

Session 1 : Greece
9:30 - 10:00 Heinz Barta (Innsbruck) “Genese des griechischen Erbrechts und des Testaments”
10:00 -10:30 Martin Steinrueck (Fribourg) “Le dernier souper du Cyclope” L'iambe archaïque grec comme expression d'un groupe de jeunes hommes sans héritage”
10:30- 11:00 Beate Wagner-Hasel (Hannover) “Inheritance conflicts in classical Athenian society”

coffee break 11:00 - 11 :30

11:30 – 12:00 Brenda Griffith-Williams (University College London) Matrilineal kinship in Athenian inheritance disputes: two case studies
12:30- 13:00 Maria H. Dettenhofer (München) “Inheritance conflicts in Sparta”

13:00 - 14:30 lunch

Session 2 : Rome
14:30- 15:00 Inge Kroppenberg (Regensburg) Unwelcome competitors. Hereditary conflicts between agnate and cognate kin in Ancient Rome
15:00- 15:30 Elisabeth Herrmann-Otto (Trier) “Sklavenfreilassungen und die Interessen der Erben
15:30-16:00 Tiziana J. Chiusi (Saarland): “Inheritance conflicts in Roman law”
16:00-16:30 Christiane Kunst (Osnabrück) „Erbrecht und Erbpraxis in republikanischer und Kaiserzeit“

coffee break 16:30-17:00

17:00 -17:30 Coen van Galen (Nijmegen) Keeping the family spirit alive: Roman women and inheritance conflict
17:30-18:00 Amber Gartrell (Oxford) "Unequal Brothers: An Exploration of the Inheritance and Succession Strategies of Imperial Heirs under Augustus"

dinner 19:00

March 22, 2013:

session 3 : Antiquité tardive : Christianisme et Zoroastrianisme
9:00 – 9:30 Sabine Huebner (Rome): “It is a difficult matter to be wronged by strangers, but to be wronged by kin is worst of all - Inheritance and Conflict in Graeco-Roman Egypt”
09:30-10:00 Carlos Sanchez-Moreno Ellart (Trier) “Late Antique Law on inheritance”
10:00-10:30 Judith Evans-Grubbs (Emory) "Illegitimacy and Inheritance in late Roman law"

coffee break 10:30- 11:00

11:00- 11:30 Maria Nowak (Warszaw) The Non-Normative Family in the Wills from Greco-Roman Egypt
11:30 -12:00 Richard Payne (Princeton) “Inheritance law and practice among the Sassanids”

lunch 12:00 - 14:00

session 4 : Judaism
14:00- 14:30 Giles Rowling (Macquarie University, Sydney) “Babatha’s Archive: Inheritance disputes in Second Century Roman Arabia"
14:30- 15:00 Nicholas A. E. Kalospyros (Athens) Towards the Allegory of Idealized Oikos: The Nuclear and Extended Family Versions, Their Succession and Inheritance Issues and Their Cognates in Philo Judaeus

coffee break 15:00-15:30

Session 5 Islam
15:30-16:00 F. Bauden (Liège) "Biens de mainmorte familiaux ou comment éviter la division de la propriété à l'époque mamlouke"
16:00-16:30 Lahcen Daaif «L’égalité entre hommes et femmes dans les actes de waqfs mamelouks. Un défi à la loi?»
16:30-17:00 Arietta Papaconstantinou (Reading) Inheritance conflicts in Christian families under Arabic rule

March 23, 2013

Session 5 : Byzantium
09:00 - 09:30 James Howard-Johnston (Paris) « Partitive inheritance in principle and practice in eleventh-century Byzantium »
09:30 – 10:00 Jean-Claude Cheynet (Paris) Les dossiers de Chomatianos sur les conflits familiaux
10:00 - 10:30 Thierry Ganchou (Paris) "L'héritage Goudélès à Gênes: deux siècles de conflit familial (ca. 1423-1639)

coffee break 10:30-11:00

11:00 -11:30 Beatrice Caseau (Paris) “Conflict between families and monasteries : Inheritance and religious life in early Byzantine times (4th-7th c.)”
11:30- 12:00 Olivier Delouis (Paris) "Distraire l'héritage : monastères et héritiers à Byzance".

12:00 - 13:30 lunch

Session 6 Middle Ages
13:30 - 14:00 Gerhard Lubich (Bochum) “Incestuous marriage, family murders and civil wars: Becoming an heir in Merovingian times”
14 :00 - 14:30 Ellen Widder (Tübingen) Schicksalsschlag oder Strukturproblem? Dynastische Brüche und Herrschaftssukzession im Spätmittelalter
15:00 - 15:30 Cameron Sutt (Austin Peay State University) Patrimony, estates and the kindred. Dividing the goods in Árpád-era Hungary

15:00 - 16:00 coffee break

16:00-16:30 Yves Sassier (Paris 4) "Un conflit entre héritières devant la justice royale au coeur du XIIIe siècle : la dislocation du grand comté de Nevers-Auxerre-Tonnerre."

16:30 Plenary discussion - conclusions

Kontakt

Sabine Huebner

Friedrich-Meinecke Institut, FU Berlin/ Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, Rome

sabine.r.huebner@gmail.com

http://www.sabine.r.huebner.net