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• 15 mar 2019

  Paris

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Craftsmen and metalworking in medieval cities: 35 years later

  In honour of Professor Paul Benoit

  The symposium addresses themetallurgies of iron, copper, tin, lead and precious metals, which produced a wide variety of objects necessary for urban life at the end of the Middle Ages. The nature, volume and possible standardization of production may be studied, as well as the needs of the city, the practices and techniques of craftsmen, their knowledge and know-how. The relationships between the crafts and between the craftsmen themselves might be examined, including dependency links, pluriactivity, networks of sociability or local relationships in urban areas. The identity and regulation of these crafts, their integration into urban society, their relationship with the surrounding rural areas and with other cities may also be revisited. The symposium will be interdisciplinary in nature, promoting dialogue between historians, archaeologists and archaeometry, without excluding anthropological approaches to learning and knowledge

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• 19 nov 2015

  Mont-Saint-Aignan

  Study days - History

  The vocabulary of Cistercian charters in the 12th century

  Dans les années 1960-1980, la conviction que l’uniformité avait été l’une des caractéristiques majeures de l’ordre cistercien a conduit ses historiens à adopter une terminologie très restreinte, tirée des statuts promulgués par le chapitre général : abbaye, convers, grange, etc. Depuis, l’unanimité cistercienne a été remise en question dans de nombreux domaines (économie, histoire de l’art, codicologie, diplomatique, etc.), ce qui invite à reconsidérer le vocabulaire employé dans les chartes cisterciennes du XII^e siècle. Une telle enquête permet notamment d’éclairer des pans de l’histoire des moines blancs longtemps passés sous silence parce qu’incompatibles avec le modèle historiographique longtemps dominant : la diversité régionale ou les implantations urbaines.

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