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Leeds

Illness as Metaphor in the Latin Middle Ages

Leeds International Medieval Congress 2021

The session seeks to provide a forum for scholars to reflect on the variation and functions of metaphors of illness in the Latin writing of the Middle Ages. We encourage papers that investigate how the imagery of morbus, pestilentia, gangraena etc. structured individual experience and how it shaped self-knowledge and practices of communities. We invite original contributions that critically examine the role that Latin metaphors of illness played in medieval discourse as a tool of explaining reality and as a rhetorical device used to impose specific world views.

London

Call for papers - Middle Ages

The Classics in the Pulpit. Ancient Literature and Preaching in the Middle Ages

The aim of the conference is to shed new light on this both striking and irritating practice. Papers (25 min) can deal with topics such as the reasons and occasions for the use of the classics in preaching, the hermeneutic and literary strategies applied in order to adapt pagan mythology to homiletic needs, the social and educational background of preachers and their audiences, the connections of classicizing sermons with other fields of literature such as vernacular poetry, or the discourse they provoked within the clerical milieu. Applications from all relevant disciplines (e.g. history, literature, theology, philosophy) are welcome.

Batalha

Call for papers - History

Materialities and devotion (5th-15th centuries)

V Medieval Europe in motion

The last decades have witnessed the development of studies on material culture, favouring an inter- and multidisciplinary approach. This has enabled a more cohesive reading of the way in which the medieval Man related to his material environment, manipulating, adapting and transforming it, of the uses given to the objects he produced, the meanings attributed, how he interacted with them in cognitive and affective terms.

Coimbra

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Making Sense of Latin Classics in the Middle Ages

12th Celtic Conference in Classics (panel 11)

The aim of this panel is to explore how medieval authors have dealt with the Classical heritage within their own cultural context. This enquiry could illustrate different degrees of exploitation of classical texts: from systematic excerption to scattered quotations naturalized in different frameworks, from the reshaping of biographies, political and philosophical treatises to the reuse of poetical patterns in order to convey new values. Making sense always implies a multiple perspective. The goal of this panel is to encourage the interaction between different points of view – historical, philological, literary, philosophical, scientific – in order to get a better understanding of the cultural background through which the Classics had to pass before reaching us.

Poitiers

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Categorising the Church (II)

Clerical and monastic communities in the Carolingian World (8th-10th)

The Carolingian era has seen by many as a time when the Church became increasingly institutionalised. One of the main aspects of this development, exemplified by the series of councils held between 816 and 819, was a (re)definition of the canonical and monastic orders and the requirement for each community in the realm to comply either with the institutiones canonicorum and sanctimonialium or with the Rule of Benedict. Despite the influential works of J. Semmler or R. Schieffer, however, the real impact of these proposed reforms is still an open question, and from this perspective, the very notion of institutionalisation can also be questioned.

Leeds

Call for papers - Middle Ages

The medieval horse

International medieval congress 2018

Palfreys and rounceys, hackneys and packhorses, warhorses and coursers, not to mention the mysterious “dung mare” – they were all part of everyday life in the Middle Ages. Every cleric and monk, no matter how immersed in his devotional routine and books he would be, every nun, no matter how reclusive her life, every peasant, no matter how poor his household, would have some experience of horses. To the medieval people, horses were as habitual as cars in the modern times. Besides, there was the daily co-existence with horses to which many representatives of the gentry and nobility – both male and female – were exposed, which far exceeds the experience of most amateur riders today.

Paris

Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

Words

Medieval Textuality and its material display

The International Medieval Society organizes its 13^th Annual Symposium in Paris, on the theme of Words in the Middle Ages. Between the increasing use of paperless media forms and the rise in the number of digital collections, medievalists are seeking to adapt to these new means of producing knowledge about the Middle Ages. At the same time, scholars in this field are also trying to outline the methodological and historical issues that affect the study of words, which now simultaneously exist in the form of primary sources, codices, rolls, charters and inscriptions, digitally reproduced images, and the statistical and lexicographical data made possible by storage platforms and analytical tools.

Leeds

Call for papers - History

Medieval Equestrianism: Theory and Practice

Thematic Sections at International Medieval Congress (Leeds 2016)

We invite paper proposals for sections on medieval equestrianism, to take place during the International Medieval Congress at Leeds 2016.

Tübingen

Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

Two PhD positions in the Emmy-Noether junior research group on "power and influence: influencing emperors between Antiquity and the Middle Ages"

Since rulers of the Imperial Roman Period and the Early Middle Ages occupied the highest (secular) position, individuals who exerted influence on them enjoyed a great extent of power. As a consequence, there was bitter rivalry between the various agents and much thinking about legitimate and illegitimate influence. These exercises and concepts of personal influence are the topic of a new Emmy-Noether junior research group, which is offering two PhD positions.

Barcelona

Call for papers - Thought

Senses and sensuality in the Middle Ages

2nd ARDIT International Congress of Medievalists

With a distinctly interdisciplinary intention, the 2^nd ARDIT International Congress of Medievalists “Senses and sensuality in the Middle Ages” aims to give voice to innovative researches on multiple and corresponding fields, such as History, Philosophy, History of Art or Philology, among others. In this new researchers’ encounter we seek to open the door to the multiples insights and reflections about senses and sensuality in the Middle Ages, offering a wide range of aspects linked to the multiple narratives which this issue inspires: the ways of knowledge, sensory and spiritual pleasure, or artistic and literary forms which have captured the sensorial universe in the Middle Ages.

Ramat Gan

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Language

MA studentship and Research assistantship in Medieval Literatures

One position for an MA studentship and Research assistantship in Medieval Literatures (Old French in general or Hebrew literature produced in northern France, 12th-16th centuries).

Paris

Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

International Medieval Society - Paris Symposium 2011 - "Ordo"

Le programme du symposium de la Société internationale des médiévistes (IMS-Paris) 2011 sur le thème « ordo ». The programme of the International Medieval Society (IMS-Paris) Symposium 2011 on the theme of « ordo ».

Champs-sur-Marne

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Texte et contexte. Littérature et histoire de l'Europe médiévale

Colloque international et pluridisciplinaire à l'université de Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée sur les liens entre histoire et littérature dans l'Europe médiévale (23-24 octobre 2009). Les médiévistes peuvent-ils opposer réel et imaginaire ? 1. Interdépendance littérature et histoire. Les grand textes littéraires, miroir de la société. 2. Rhétorique des documents historiques.3. Des genres hybrides : chroniques, Vies de Saints, etc. 4. Liens entre réalité et fiction. Expériences et analyses. Faits et images. Choses et légendes. Imagination et création. Histoire et vérité. 5. Les historiens au Moyen Age : rapports au passé, à l'actualité. Définitions médiévales d'un fait, d'un document historiques, les autorités. 6. Mises en scène, propagande, sous-entendus, mensonges, manipulation : les textes (historiques, politiques, économiques, etc.) orientés. 7. Mentalités médiévales : comment rendre compte de l'inconnu, l'ailleurs, l'incompréhensible. Connaissances et signification(s). 8. Usage de plus en plus courant par les historiens actuels de sources littéraires et, inversement, éclairage d'un poème, d'une romance par son contexte historique. Regards croisés et complémentaires d'historiens et de spécialistes de la littérature. 9. Palette multidisciplinaire des études médiévales.

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