Provisional Programme: Government Print in the Early Modern World: Law, Politics and Printers
The 1st COMLAWEU Conference, Tuesday 20 – Wednesday 21 May 2025
Old Class Library, St John’s House, 69-71 South Street, St Andrews, KY16 9QW
Tuesday 20 May
08:45-09:15 Registration
09:15-09:30 Welcome and opening
09:30-11:00 Panel 1: The Type and Character of Early Modern Print
Chair: Arthur der Weduwen
Marco Francalanci (Universidad de Alcalá), Beyond Normative Meanings. The Many Lives of the Printed Laws of the Duchy of Milan
Philip Haas (State Archives of Lower Saxony, Wolfenbüttel), Not all official prints are the same: Types of official printing, their particular characteristics and their interrelationship
Zachary Brookman (University of St Andrews), Government Print in the Old Swiss Confederacy: A Cross-Cantonal Comparison
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 Panel 2: Two Sides of the Law: Celebration and Prosecution
Chair: Elise Watson
Laura Incollingo (University of St Andrews), How to celebrate. Printed laws and regulations of public ceremonies in Early Modern Italy
Andras Biczo (University of Debrecen), Circularia impressa and the maintenance of public security. An analysis of the printed arrest warrants issued by the Royal Hungarian Locotenential Council in the reign of Joseph II
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Panel 3: Official and Privileged Printers (I)
Chair: Laura Incollingo
Paweł Pietrowcew (University of St Andrews), “Calcographus noster”. The Model of a Royal and an Official Printer in Poland-Lithuania (1505–1750)
Elise Watson (University of Edinburgh), ‘Printeress to his Majestie’: Agnes Campbell and the Consequences of Monopoly in Early Modern Scotland
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-16:30 Panel 4: Emergence, Growth and Development
Chair: Andrew Pettegree
Arthur der Weduwen (University of St Andrews), The Rise of Government Print in Early Modern Europe
Magne Klasson (University of Lund), The city magistrate and the press: Tracing the emergence and development of municipal print in Copenhagen, 1680s-1750s
18:30 Conference dinner, Hatch, 129 South Street, St Andrews, KY16 9UH
Wednesday 21 May
09:15-10:45 Panel 5: Marketing, News and Polemics
Chair: Christophe Gillain
Marie-Charlotte Le Bailly (Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library, Antwerp), Marketing Imperial Ordinances Antwerp Style: Early Editions of Legislation Printed in Antwerp (1500-1550)
Kate Shore (University of Oxford), ‘To all our neighbours’: Elizabethan governmental print in the Holy Roman Empire
Tristan Griffin (Università della Valle d’Aosta), The ‘war of letters’, government printing and the contest for authority in the British Civil Wars and Interregnum
10:45-11:15 Break
11:15-12:15 Panel 6: Official and Privileged Printers (II)
Chair: Barnaby Cullen
Saskia Limbach (University of Göttingen), A lucrative job? Printing for local authorities in early modern Germany
Josef Pauser (University of Vienna / Austrian Constitutional Court), Printing Privileges for Legal Publications in Early Modern Vienna: The Singriener Press and its 1540 Privilege
12:15-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:45 Panel 7: Law and the Frontier
Chair: Paweł Pietrowcew
Barnaby Cullen (University of St Andrews), Law and Order on the Border: Swedish Ordinances in Livonia
Christophe Gillain (University of St Andrews), Printing the Law on the French Periphery: The Case of Aix-en-Provence
14:45-15:15 Break
15:15-16:15 Panel 8: Church and State
Chair: Katherine Tycz
Wojciech Kordyzon (University of Warsaw), A Lutheran Duke and His Presses: Printing Law in the Duchy of Prussia (1525-1575) between the Secular and the Church
Alberto Campillo Pardo (University of Oslo), Privileges, monopolies, and exceptions. The production of bulls in Spain after the Council of Trent
16:15-17:00 Concluding roundtable
19:00 Conference dinner, Tailend Restaurant, 130 Market Street, St Andrews, KY16 9PD