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• 05 nov 2015

  06 nov 2015

  07 nov 2015

  Rome

  Conference, symposium - Religion

  The Autocephalous Church: an ecclesiastical necessity or political result?

  Exercising independence in eastern Slav churches (10th-20th centuries) - Session 1

  Par définition, l’Église est « une ». Sous l’apparente simplicité de la qualification se loge une souplesse remarquable de pensées et de pratiques de l’unité, qui se sont déployées au cours de l’histoire dans diverses directions. L’autocéphalie est l’une d’elles et renvoie à l’origine, dans le cadre du christianisme oriental, aux archevêques et aux métropolites élus localement sans requérir l’intervention d’une instance supérieure.

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• 31 oct 2015

  Venice

  Call for papers - Representation

  Typical Venice?

  Venetian Commodities, 13th-16th centuries

  What are "Venetian" commodities? More than any other medieval or early modern city, Venice lived off of the trade of portable goods. In addition to trading foreign imports, the city also engaged in intense local production, manufacturing high quality glass, crystal, cloth, metal, enamel, leather, and ceramic objects, characterized by their exceedingly rich forms and complex production processes. Today, these objects are scattered in collections throughout the world, but little remains in Venice itself. In individual instances, it is often difficult to tell whether the objects in question were actually made in Venice or if they originated in Byzantine, Islamic, or other European contexts.

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• 10 avr 2015

  Pisa

  Study days - Middle Ages

  Pisa: from the great plague to the Florentine conquest (1348-1406)

  New directions for the history of a society in crisis

  Pise est sans doute l’un des observatoires privilégiés de la « crise du XIV^e siècle ». La grande mortalité s’abat en effet sur une ville qui, déjà, connaît les affres des bouleversements économiques et politiques. L'historiographie a longtemps interprété l'histoire de la ville au Trecento, et a fortiori entre la Peste Noire et la conquête florentine (1406) selon un paradigme décliniste. Pourtant, à la suite des travaux menés sur cette période par F. Melis et M. Tangheroni et des renouvellements plus récents, profitant d’un regain d’intérêt pour l’exploitation des sources de la pratique, il est possible de réévaluer l'ampleur de la « crise » pisane, et de redéfinir les paramètres politiques, économiques et sociétaux qui ont marqué la période postérieure à la Grande peste.

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• 25 jan 2015

  Rome

  Call for papers - Europe

  Heraldry in the Medieval City – The Case of Italy in the European Context

  A visitor passing through Italy is surprised by the abundance of coats of arms that still decorate the palaces and public monuments of its cities. Relatively undisturbed by the tides of history that destroyed a lot of Europe's heraldic heritage, in the Italian cities this heritage is still alive and well. While the development of heraldic signs occasionally caught the eye of historians and art historians, they have never done justice to the multitude and diversity of the existing sources. Recently, however, research has taken an interest in the subject with renewed vigour and approaches, especially in the case of Italy. The aim of this conference is to establish the current state of research and to advance the subject by linking more closely the history of heraldic communication and the history of cities. To do so, the Italian example shall be put into a European perspective.

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