Monday 29 September 2014
09:00 Lukas Bothe (Berlin), Stefan Esders (Berlin), Han Nijdam (Leeuwarden) - Welcome
09:15 – 11:00 1. Concepts
Ludolf Kuchenbuch (Hagen / Berlin) - Die Wergeldfrage: Simmel und die Folgen - 12 Thesen
Harald Siems (Munich) - Fragen zum “Wergeldsystem” aus rechtshistorischer Sicht: Erklaerungspotential, Leistungsgrenzen und Entwicklungsmoeglichkeiten
11:15 – 13:00 2. Delineations
Ralph Mathisen (Urbana-Champaign) - Monetary fines, penalties, and compensations in Late Antiquity
Lisi Oliver (Baton Rouge) - Chronological movements in wergild structures on the Continent and in England
14:30 – 16:15 3. Terminology
Wolfgang Haubrichs (Saarbrücken) - Die Bezeichnungen sprachlich germanischer Provenienz für monetäre Leistungen im Rahmen der compositio und für Institutionen zu ihrer Durchsetzung im frühen Mittelalter
Jenny Benham (Cardiff) - Law and unemendable crimes: a comparison of terminology and practice across the North Sea
16:30 – 18:15 4. Composition and penance: The impact of religion
Rob Meens (Utrecht) - Penance and satisfaction. Conflict settlement and penitential practices in the Early Middle Ages
NuritTsafrir (Tel Aviv) - Blood money payment: From Arab custom to Muslim law
Tuesday 30 September 2014
9:00 – 13:00 5. Wergild and social status
Helle Vogt (Copenhagen) - The kin’s collective responsibility for the paying of a man’s worth in medieval Denmark
Lukas Bothe (Berlin) - Triplice weregildum: Social and functional status in the Lex Ripuaria (7th – 9th centuries)
Tom Lambert (Oxford) - Money, honour and idealism in the Laws of Æthelberht
Han Nijdam (Leeuwarden) - Compensation and embodied honour: The case of Frisia
14:30 – 17:15 6. Wergild and texts
Christoph Meyer (Frankfurt) - Wergilds in the Leges Langobardorum
Karl Ubl (Cologne) - Wergild, Lex Salica and legal reform under Charlemagne
Warren Brown (Pasadena) - Money in disputes in the Carolingian formulae
17:45 – 19:15 Conclusions
Stefan Esders (Berlin) - Summary
Paul Hyams (Ithaca / Oxford) - Comment