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• 08 déc 2016

  09 déc 2016

  Zurich

  Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

  The Dominicans and the Making of Florentine Cultural Identity

  Influences and Interactions between Santa Maria Novella and the Commune of Florence (1293-1313)

  Florence, the celebrated city-republic, dominates the historiography of medieval Italy still today. Her glory and crises define the paradigm for investigating other medieval city-states. As attention to medieval cities has increased, so too the history of the Dominican Order has constituted a major field of study, since the Dominicans were at the forefront of the cultural and religious life of Medieval cities. This conference intends to analyse the reciprocal influences and interactions between the activities and works of this constellation of Dominican intellectuals and the making of Florentine cultural identity through the social and political events that consumed the public life of the Commune between 1293 and 1313.

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• 06 oct 2016

  07 oct 2016

  Lausanne

  Conference, symposium - History

  Inventing medieval literature (16th-17th century)

  Le colloque se propose d'étudier l'intérêt de l'érudition européenne des XVI^e et XVII^e siècles pour les textes rassemblés depuis le XIX^e siècle sous la dénomination « littérature médiévale ». Il interroge les catégories retenues par les antiquaires pour classifier ces textes, ainsi que les motivations ayant conduit à leur édition et à leur étude. Il rassemble des spécialistes des littératures française, italienne et scandinave et islandaise.

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• 08 fév 2016

  Basel

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Scholarship Basel Graduate School of History

  The Basel Graduate School of History (BGSH) is offering two 1-year starter scholarships.

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• 18 fév 2016

  19 fév 2016

  Geneva

  Study days - Europe

  Initiation and unveiling

  Fourth international study day of young medieval researchers at the UNIGE and the university conference of Western Switzerland

  Multifacette, mystérieuse – alors même qu’elle est censée éclairer –, la question de l’initiation, et avec elle, celle des possibles dévoilements, est particulièrement prégnante au Moyen Âge où prennent place d’importants processus d’explication, d’interprétation, de transmission et d’apprentissage. Dans le souvenir du culte à secrets antique, le mystère médiéval pourrait à lui seul donner tout son sens au terme même d’initiation. Les dévoilements présentent les différentes voies d’accès à un savoir caché au plus grand nombre, seulement connu de quelques élus. En ce sens, les thèmes de l’ésotérisme, du mysticisme, mais aussi de l’exégèse s’insèrent dans la problématique générale de l’initiation et des dévoilements.

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• 30 jan 2016

  Lausanne

  Call for papers - Europe

  Inventing medieval literature (16th-17th century)

  This conference aims to study the categories and periodizations used by 16^th and 17^th century antiquarians to classify the texts gathered today under the name "medieval literature". We examine the motivations behind antiquarian interest in texts which were difficult to read and understand, carried moral and religious values perceived as "alien", and were sometimes considered useless if not harmful to read, but were nevertheless recognized as reliable sources on past habits. Special attention will be given to discourses of continuity (origins of a modern language) or rupture (medieval "barbarity" or "popery") in which these texts were used as supports.

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