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Special issue of "RursuSpicae" (#12)

Any proposal concerning one of the “recensions” of the Physiologus (in Greek as well as in the other ancient or medieval languages of diffusion – Latin, Armenian, Georgian, Arabic, Slavonic, Romanian ...) is welcome. The papers (in any European language) may relate to the medieval tradition and the avatars of this text / genre, and relate to philological, literary, cultural, naturalist, or iconographic aspects.

Paris

Study days - Middle Ages

Sorting, classifying and organising - ordering the world in the Middle Ages

Quatre axes principaux guideront la réflexion : 1) textes de savoirs ; 2) théologie et symbolique ; 3) la société : représentations et imaginaire ; 4) écrits politiques, écrits pragmatiques.

Paris

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Sorting, classifying and organising - ordering the world in the Middle Ages

Ordonner le monde au Moyen Âge

Comment le Moyen Âge pensait-il l'organisation ? De l’accumulation à la liste, de la liste au classement, choisir comment on organise, c’est choisir ce qu’il faut assembler. Or les catégories façonnent une certaine représentation du monde. Des cartes en TO, qui séparent les trois continents pour les organiser en cercle autour de Jérusalem, aux récits merveilleux, qui listent ou hiérarchisent les différentes espèces présentes sur terre, les classements sont orientés. Ils révèlent au sein des textes ainsi que des images, de sciences ou de littérature, une vision individuelle et/ou collective de l’ordonnancement du monde.

Kalamazoo

Call for papers - Representation

Body and Soul in Medieval Visual Culture

52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies

This session seeks papers that explore the range of ways in which medieval artists responded to the anthropological duality of body and soul in the visual arts of the Byzantine and Western medieval worlds.

Heraklion

Call for papers - Europe

Semantic Web for Scientific Heritage

SW4SH 2016: Second International Workshop

Classicists and historians are interested in developing textual databases, in order to gather and explore large amounts of primary source materials. For a long time, they mainly focused on text digitization and markup. They only recently decided to try to explore the possibility of transferring some analytical processes they previously thought incompatible with automation to knowledge engineering systems, thus taking advantage of the growing set of tools and techniques based on the languages and standards of the semantic Web, such as linked data, ontologies, and automated reasoning. SW4SH 2016 aims to provide a leading international and interdisciplinary forum for disseminating the latest research in the field of Semantic Web for the preservation and exploitation of our scientific heritage, the study of the history of ideas and their transmission.

Paris

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Fondements de l'éthique médiévale : Dieu, l'homme et la nature

La question des fondements de l’éthique médiévale se situe plus que toute autre à la croisée des chemins. Le terme de « fondements » peut en effet s’entendre dans une perspective historique, au sein de laquelle l’historien de la philosophie s’attache à suivre l’évolution des contenus de l’éthique en interaction avec divers facteurs sociaux, culturels et textuels, mais aussi comme une réflexion sur les conditions métaphysiques de l’existence d’une éthique. Destinée à donner la parole aux jeunes chercheurs en philosophie médiévale, doctorants ou post-doctorants, cette journée d'études sera centrée sur l'éthique au Moyen Âge et la question de ses fondements, tant épistémologiques que métaphysique, anthropologiques ou théologiques.

Palermo

Conference, symposium - Prehistory and Antiquity

Feeding animals/Eating animals. Theories, Attitudes and Cultural Representations of Nutrition in Ancient and Medieval World

Memoria scientiae 2015

According to ancient biological theories, nutrition is, along with reproduction, one of the functions of the soul shared by men, animals and plants. At the same time, however, eating habits are among the starting points on which differences between humans, animals and plants are culturally built. This means that a transversal biological praxis can be used as an anthropological device, in order to to fix and identify specific boundaries and thresholds, either symbolic or theoretical, between both animality and vegetality on the one hand, and zoosphere and anthroposphere on the other hand.

Palermo

Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

Memoria scientiae 2015: Feeding animals/Eating animals

Theories, attitudes and cultural representations of nutrition in ancient and medieval world

According to ancient biological theories, nutrition is, along with reproduction, one of the functions of the soul shared by men, animals and plants. At the same time, however, eating habits are among the starting points on which differences between humans, animals and plants are culturally built. This means that a transversal biological praxis can be used as an anthropological device, in order to to fix and identify specific boundaries and thresholds, either symbolic or theoretical, between both animality and vegetality on the one hand, and zoosphere and anthroposphere on the other hand.

Paris

In the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

The brain has, throughout history, been considered an important achievement in the creation of man, although often secondary to the soul and the heart. Our knowledge about how the brain has been conceived in the past is, however, very fractional, especially for the late Medieval and early modern periods. This conference looks to re-situate the question of knowing the brain anew in a dialogue between medicine (anatomy, physiology and pathology) and natural philosophy (inter alia physics, biology and psychology).

Orléans | Meung-sur-Loire

Conference, symposium - Europe

Jean de Meun and medieval culture

Literature, art, sciences and society in the last centuries of the Middle Ages

Qui était Jean de Meun, l’auteur de la seconde partie du Roman de la Rose, le plus grand succès de la littérature médiévale ? Un clerc originaire de Meung-sur-Loire, sans doute un maître ès-arts. Il traduisit du latin en français le De re militari de Végèce, la Consolatio Philosophiae de Boèce, les lettres d’Héloïse et Abélard, ainsi que la Topographia Hibernica de Giraud de Barri et le De amicitia spirituali d’Aelred de Rievaulx, ces deux dernières traductions étant malheureusement perdues. Ce n’est pas au seul Roman de la Rose mais à l’ensemble de son œuvre (y compris les pièces dont l’attribution n’est pas assurée, comme le Testament), dans toute sa diversité thématique, que l’on voudrait consacrer ce colloque, en réunissant autour de cette œuvre, de ses enjeux et de son impact sur la longue durée, jusqu’à la Renaissance, historiens de la culture et de la littérature.

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