Salamanca Colloquium

The colloquium of the Academy project "The School of Salamanca. A digital collection of sources and a dictionary of its juridical-political language" deals with the school as a phenomenon of global knowledge production, as well as with the conception of the dictionary to be compiled in the project and the challenges of a digital edition in the environment of the digital humanities community.

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Das „unbestimmte Richtmaß“ – Beobachtungen zur aequitas-Lehre in der Spätscholastik.

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Jan 29, 2026
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Tilman Repgen
  • (Universität Hamburg)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: Raum IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighöfer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
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Textbesprechung Luis de Molina: De iustitia et iure, Traktat 1, Disp. 1-5

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Jan 15, 2026
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: ​Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: Raum IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighöfer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
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Reception of the regula iuris “sine culpa, nisi subsit causa” by Diego de Covarrubias y Leyva

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Dec 4, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: José Ignacio Destéfanis
  • Mendoza, Argentinien
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: Raum IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighöfer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
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Domingo de Soto’s Deliberation in the Cause of the Poor

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Nov 20, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Virpi Mäkinen
  • University of Helsinki
  • Location: Seminarhaus Campus Westend
  • Room: Raum SH 3.103
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighöfer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Title page of a Latin work titled "Tractatus Quinque Theologici" by P. Franciscus Suarez, printed in Lyon by Jacobus Cardon.

Law, Freedom of Will, and Moral Entities: On the Foundations of the Legal Philosophy of Francisco Suárez

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Nov 6, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: Raum IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighöfer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Porträt eines Mannes aus dem 17. Jahrhundert, der nachdenklich blickt; er trägt einfache Kleidung und hat eine Glatze mit kurzem Bart.

Grundbegriffe der Schule von Salamanca: Luis de Molina: De iustitia et iure, Traktat 1, Disp. 1-5

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Oct 23, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Detail of a painting showing a man writing with a quill.

Mit den Augen des anderen? Las Casas' Verteidigung der Völker der Neuen Welt gegen den Humanisten Sepúlveda

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Jul 17, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Mariano Delgado
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: Eisenhower Saal / IG 1.314
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
A ruler receives a letter.

Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der päpstlichen Macht: papa/pontifex bei der Schule von Salamanca

Grundbegriffe der Schule von Salamanca
  • Date: Jul 3, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Marie-Astrid Hugel
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: IG 2.501
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Historical document.

Reasoning of judicial decisions in Catalonia in the context of early modern Iberian jurisdictional cultures

Grundbegriffe der Schule von Salamanca
  • Date: Jun 26, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: David Nestor Irazabal Martinez (Barcelona)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: IG 2.501
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Page from an old book featuring a black-and-white illustration and a royal seal.

Rediscovering Antonio de Cordoba’s (1485-1578) Moral Theology via his Reception of Jean Gerson (1363-1429)

Grundbegriffe der Schule von Salamanca
  • Date: Jun 12, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Yelena Mazour-Matusevich (Fairbanks, USA)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: IG 2.501
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Collage of historical figures and old manuscript pages with intricate designs.

Grundbegriffe der Schule von Salamanca: 1. Ius naturale bei Vitoria, Soto, Vásquez und Suárez.

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: May 15, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Matthias Lutz-Bachmann und Stefan Schweighöfer (Frankfurt a. M.)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Portrait of a person wearing a dark robe and a large white ruffled collar.

Grundbegriffe der Schule von Salamanca: Säkularisierung im frühneuzeitlichen Naturrecht? Das Beispiel Hugo Grotius.

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: May 8, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Rudolf Schüßler (Bayreuth)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Historical black-and-white illustration of people performing various tasks in a landscape.

Jesuiten, Kapuziner und die Kritik am transatlantischen Sklavenhandel

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Feb 6, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Matthias Kaufmann
  • (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
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Slavery and the School of Salamanca. Presentation and debate on the lemma servus/servitus.

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Jan 23, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Daniel Allemann
  • (Luzern)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
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Kirchliche Rechtsgeschichte in der Frühen Neuzeit und Globalgeschichte

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Jan 16, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Thomas Duve
  • (mpilhlt)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
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Seelsorge in der Schule von Salamanca. Ein Werkstattsbericht

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Jan 9, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christoph Nebgen (Goethe Universität Frankfurt)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Engraved portrait set within an oval frame, accompanied by an inscription beneath.

Robert Bellarmine on the Exchange Contract: The Louvain Lectures (1570–1576) and the Transmission of the Spanish Scholastic Thought

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Dec 12, 2024
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Shiri Roelofs (KU Leuven)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Baroque painting of a mythological scene featuring clouds and figures.

From one epistemic community to another: conceptual similarities between the School of Salamanca and the usus modernus Pandectarum on topics of economic dominance (16th-18th centuries)

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • New time!
  • Date: Nov 21, 2024
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Wout Vandermeulen
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: Raum IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Woodcut illustration depicting scholars at work, including a central figure in a lectern.

John Mair on natural law and the conquest of the Americas

  • Date: Jun 6, 2024
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Marcos Paredes-Sadler
  • Location: mpilhlt, Turmcarree
  • Room: A 601
  • Host: Romulo da Silva Ehalt and Maria del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
Sunlit wooden door in an interior setting casting shadows on the wall.

The German Tradition of Research on the School of Salamanca

Salamanca Colloquium
  • Date: Jun 15, 2022
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. María Martín Gómez (Faculty of Philosophy, Universidad de Salamanca)
  • Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
  • Room: mpilhtl Z02, video conference
  • Host: Christiane Birr, José Luis Egío, Andreas Wagner
  • Contact: birr@lhlt.mpg.de
Page from an old Spanish book on contract law.

Contractus & quasi contractus

Salamanca Colloquium
  • Date: Jul 7, 2021
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Francisco Cuena Boy (Faculty of Law, Universidad de Cantabria)
  • Organisation: Christiane Birr, José Luis Egío, Andreas Wagner
  • Location: video conference
  • Room: For further information please contact salamanca@rg.mpg.de
Book title and author information on a two-tone background.

Commentaries De iustitia et iure in early modern New Kingdom of Granada

Salamanca Colloquium
  • Date: May 5, 2021
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Christiane Birr, José Luis Egío
  • Location: video conference
  • Room: For further information please contact salamanca@rg.mpg.de
Historical woodcut featuring people and a demonic being in a rural setting.

Maleficium

Salamanca Colloquium
  • Date: Apr 21, 2021
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Christiane Birr, José Luis Egío, Andreas Wagner
  • Location: video conference
  • Room: For further information please contact salamanca@rg.mpg.de
Historical illustration of three figures carrying water containers in a forest landscape.

The School of Salamanca on Slavery: from ius gentium to ius civile

Salamanca Colloquium
  • Date: Mar 10, 2021
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Christiane Birr, José Luis Egío, Andreas Wagner
  • Location: video conference
  • Room: For further information please contact salamanca@rg.mpg.de
View through an ornate window into a courtyard with historical architecture.

The invention of Custom and the School of Salamanca

Salamanca Colloquium
  • Date: Sep 2, 2020
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Christiane Birr, José Luis Egío, Andreas Wagner
  • Location: video conference
Two gentlemen in suits discussing during a meeting in a conference room.

Juan Belda Plans: Presentación de la edición crítica y la traducción al español de la Relectio de Poenitentia de Melchor Cano

Salamanca Colloquium
  • Date: Feb 5, 2020
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Juan Belda Plans (Valencia)
  • Organisation: Christiane Birr, José Luis Egío
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: B316 (Conference room of the library)
Book cover of "Melchioris Cani Vindicationes" featuring a classic design.

Boris Hogenmüller: Melchor Cano, De locis theologicis – some remarks on concept and reception of the Loci

Salamanca Colloquium
  • Date: Jan 15, 2020
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Boris Hogenmüller (Würzburg)
  • Organisation: Christiane Birr, José Luis Egío
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z01

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