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2024 Mar 26

How Ill-Gotten Gains Produced Public Good in Late Medieval Canon Law

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall (WCC), 18 Everett Street (corner with Mass Ave) room 3008.

A talk by Prof. Silvia Di Paolo (Law Faculty, University of Roma III, Italy), with the title “Restitution: How ill-gotten gains produced public good in Late Medieval canon law”

 

Abstract: This talk will examine how the Augustinian principle "Sin is not wiped out unless the ill-gotten gains are returned," led to the development of a particular vision of justice and economic equity in medieval canon law. This vision held that every illicit form of appropriation and gain was an injury to equality and justice that was reparable only by means of restitution....

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2024 Mar 28

Erasure and Inscription in Early Modern Europe

5:30pm

Location: 

Barker Center, Room 133

Roger Chartier (Dept of History, University of Pennsylvania, and Collège de France, Paris, emeritus), “Erasure and Inscription in Early Modern Europe"

Barker Center 133. Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in the History of the Book and the Departments of English and Music.

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2024 Apr 10

Prison History as Book History

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

Barker Center, Room 133
Spencer Weinreich (Harvard Society of Fellows and Dept of History of Science, Harvard), "Prison History as Book History," Barker Center 133, Harvard. Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in the History of the Book
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