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Villeneuve-d'Ascq
Conference, symposium - History
Urban temporalities and rythms in Northwestern Europe (14th-17th centuries)
This conference will allow us to grasp the measure of time in medieval and premodern urban societies, as well as the perception of its passage. The aim of the colloquium is to observe city dwellers caught in the interplay of multiple temporalities that shape their sense of belonging or exclusion from various social groups, such as merchant and artistic circles, as well as family and intimate networks. Crisis and the sense of acceleration that can arise from a situation of unrest or a sudden event are other factors that influence individuals’ perception of time. In short, the question will be how the inhabitants of cities (as well as those who pass through them) inhabit the present moment, a question that allows us to reconsider the notion of “presentism” developed by François Hartog, originally conceived for the contemporary period.
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Nájera
22th International Meetings of the Middle Ages of Nájera
The 22th Meetings of Medieval History in Najera want to expose how people with disabilities were perceived and treated in medieval society, as well as the forms of integration from a comparative perspective between European and Islamic world cities.
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Nice
Conference, symposium - History
Les habitants en assemblées à la fin du Moyen Âge
Europe (XIIe-début du XVIe siècle)
À l'écart, en collaboration ou en opposition avec les gouvernements communaux, les assemblées d'habitants ont parfois été définies comme des lieux d'une "démocratie médiévale". Elles restent cependant méconnues et peu étudiées. Ce colloque entend ainsi éclairer la place des assemblées d'habitants dans le gouvernement des villes à la fin du Moyen Âge. À travers la comparaison des espaces français, italiens, allemands, suisses et flamands, il s'agit d'explorer les traces documentaires, l'organisation, la composition, les domaines de compétences et la capacité d'action de ces assemblées. Ces réflexions permettront de renouveler notre compréhension des interactions entre gouvernement local et participation citoyenne médiévale.
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Villeneuve-d'Ascq
Present in the city: Urban temporalities and rhythms in Northwestern Europe (14th-17th centuries)
This conference aims to focus on urban rhythms and temporalities in cities in Western Europe. The goal is to capture different temporalities based on individuals' gender, profession, communities, beliefs, and more, while comparing the spaces of Northwestern Europe and Mediterranean Europe.
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Evora
Local powers toward central authorities: Decision-making process in medieval urban societies
2nd Lectures on social contract
The scientific summit is dedicated to bringing together different specialists who analyse the discursivities of decision-making developed in medieval towns and other local instances of political governance. The goal of this seminar is centred in exploring the dynamics between the local and the central spheres of power, following an understanding on how those dynamics build their communication strategies from communal institutions side to interact with —or, even though, resist to— their so-called sovereign authorities. These communication channels often operated networks of semantic change between the local spheres, where political decisions were performed, and the higher spheres with jurisdictional power over them.
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Leeds
Experiencing urban crisis in the Middle Ages
To respond to the IMC Leed 2024 theme, Crisis, we propose to study urban crisis in the Middle Ages as a lived experience, which was made through specific sensations, emotions and actions. In a multi-sessions panel, we propose to examine what is needed to build an experience of crisis, and what makes it so powerful. We will also consider the sources and methods used by scholars, in order to question the phenomenology of this common lived-experience, which was lived by all but described only by the elite.
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Paris
Les maisons médiévales et le genre, nouvelles approches historiques (XIIIe–XVIe siècle)
Cette journée d’étude entend contribuer aux recherches foisonnantes sur la maison à la fin du Moyen Âge, dans une perspective proprement historienne et par le genre. Faire de la maison médiévale un objet d’histoire du genre permet de croiser une réflexion sur l’habitat et les pratiques qui y ont cours. Ainsi, on envisagera la maison comme un cadre d’interactions sociales, sans négliger sa dimension matérielle concrète : ses différents espaces, les meubles et objets. Sources de la pratique, sources normatives et iconographiques révèlent-elles des rapports de genre différents dans l’espace domestique ? Celui-ci est-il conçu ou vécu comme un lieu assigné aux femmes ?
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Conference, symposium - Middle Ages
Perspectives on medieval painted ceilings in Auvergne
Images and texts in the Medieval domestic decor
Ce colloque s’organise en deux volets. La première journée permettra de partir à la rencontre des plafonds auvergnats : du plafond de la maison des États généraux d’Aigueperse dont on approfondira la connaissance, à de nouveaux plafonds, récemment découverts et en cours d’étude, à Riom, Brioude, Ravel et Hérisson. La seconde journée proposera un axe thématique « Images et textes dans le décor domestique médiéval », qui remettra les plafonds dans leur contexte immédiat (intérieur domestique, fresques...). Seront plus particulièrement mises en lumière les inscriptions : poésie, vœux, proverbes, culture littéraire ou religieuse, propagande, humour. Les plafonds s'adressent à nous à travers les âges.
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Nájera
The Social Use Of Space In The Late Medieval European Town
Nájera 18th International Meetings Of The Middle Ages
In this conference we will focus on the social use of urban space in the late medieval period, an era in which (the spatial centre of) many of the present-day European towns was shaped. It wants to study how urban space was produced, constrained, and defined between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries with a comparative European perspective.
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Metz
Cities and state constructions in Lorraine (13th-15th century)
Les villes lorraines sont tributaires de la géopolitique complexe de l'espace lorrain. La partie orientale de la région fait partie de l'Empire, mais l'ensemble de la région est plus ou moins soumise à l'influence de la monarchie française ; par ailleurs, la région participe à la construction de monarchies composites d’échelle européenne (Empire des Luxembourg, États angevins). Que les villes lorraines soient libres ou territoriales, insérées dans une principauté laïque ou ecclésiastique, villes marchandes ou de résidence du prince, elles ne sont pas que des acteurs passifs : la capacité de la principale d’entre elles, Metz, à tenir tête aux armées des princes lorrains, le montre bien. Quelle peut être, dans ces conditions, leur place dans la construction étatique prise dans son acception la plus large ?
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Tours | Leeds
The multilingual city, c. 1250 – c. 1800
Historical approaches
Cities are multilingual, but histories of the premodern city too rarely think in detail about the workings of language in urban communities and environments. At the same time, the social history of language has rarely taken into account the spatial dimension of multilingualism in the past. As a centre of political, cultural, and intellectual life, as well as a site of cultural exchange, the city has long been a place of linguistic encounter and of language change, as historical sociolinguists have shown. This workshop will bring historians together to consider multilingualism as a social fact, and to explore the relationship between multilingualism and the development of the premodern city.
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Nájera
Economic policies and strategies in the Medieval Atlantic city
Nájera. 17th International Meetings of the Middle Ages
International Meetings of the Middle Ages in Nájera have been proposed as an international congress in the field of study and dissemination of Medieval History since 2003. The theme for this year’s meetings is Economic policies and strategies in the Medieval Atlantic City. Atlantic city, arose in the Middle Ages, was based on a series of key factors -such as the geographical features, infrastructures and very dynamic societies-, but also because urban policies adopted, in those peripheral cities due to its geographical location, some common and different characteristics from the cities of the interior of the continent, whose economic policies and strategies we are proposing to analyze in this conference.
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Paris
The social history of shows and spectacles (Europe, 15th-18th century)
Le séminaire s'est donné pour but d’interroger à nouveaux frais les processus de création et d’élaboration des spectacles à la fin du Moyen Âge et à l’époque moderne.
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San Gimignano
Religiousness in Mediterrranean towns (12th-15th century)
Ce quatrième atelier de formation doctorale s’inscrit dans le prolongement direct de la scuola di alti studi dottorali qui, de 2004 à 2016, a constitué un lieu de formation de pointe pour les jeunes chercheurs consacrant leurs recherches à l’étude de la culture locale. L’objectif des ateliers est l’étude des sociétés urbaines du Moyen Âge, en mettant l’accent sur les systèmes politiques et les différentes manifestations de l’imaginaire urbain et en portant le regard sur toutes les villes du bassin méditerranéen – celles de l’Occident chrétien, celles de la zone d’influence byzantine et celles des régions sous domination islamique. Les ateliers offrent un environnement stimulant pour les échanges intellectuels entre spécialistes réputés et jeunes chercheurs en formation, pour favoriser, à travers des moments de discussion et d’échange, le renouvellement de la recherche et l’élargissement des perspectives comparatives.
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Münster
Conference, symposium - Middle Ages
Innovation and medieval communities in North-West Europe (1200-1500)
Le lien bien établi entre innovation et modernisation suscite de nombreuses interrogations aujourd'hui. Toutefois ce phénomène est loin d’être propre aux sociétés modernes et contemporaines et la fin du Moyen Âge, qui n’a encore jamais fait l’objet d’une étude systématique sur ce sujet, se révèle essentielle pour comprendre les mécanismes humains d’adaptation, mais aussi les enjeux culturels qui facilitent ou bloquent les transitions. Débarrassés de toute perspective téléologique sur l’innovation, la période (XIIIe- début XVIe siècle) et l’espace (Europe du Nord-Ouest) que nous souhaitons placer au cœur de cette rencontre pourront servir de laboratoire d’analyse, afin d’estimer les conditions de réception de l’innovation et les réactions suscitées par l’irruption de la nouveauté.
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Paris
Conference, symposium - History
Craftsmen and metalworking in medieval cities: thirty five years later
The symposium Craftsmen and Metalworking in Medieval Cities: 35 Years Later addresses the metallurgies 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.
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Athens
Transformation, renovation, continuity
Medieval culture and war conference
It is an undeniable fact of human history that war has been on many occasions and in many different historical contexts a powerful stimulus for innovations and change in culture, politicals, and thought. During periods of transition warfare had a crucial role in medieval societies. Following previous meetings in Leeds (2016), Lisbon (2017) and Brussels (2018) the 2019 Medieval Culture and War Conference will be held in Athens in the Faculty of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). The conference will focus on ‘Transformation, Renovation, and Continuity’.
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Call for papers - Early modern
Construction Techniques and Writings on Architecture in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe
Thematic issue of the journal Opus Incertum (Florence University Press)
The 2020 issue of the open access journal Opus Incertum (Florence University Press) aims to examine, through selected case studies, the complex relationship between construction practices and architectural writings in Renaissance and early modern Europe. Situated at the crossroads of several disciplines (architectural history, history of science and technology, history of literature), the subject can be approached from different perspectives. To begin with, confrontations of texts on construction techniques with the material realities of extant buildings may reveal, for specific contexts, to what extent these texts operated as vehicles for the transmission of technical know-how, and how much weight they gave to topoi borrowed from ancient authors.
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Paris
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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Cork
A one-day symposium on the theme of “Mendicants on the Margins” will take place at University College Cork on the 27 June 2018. It is organised as part of the IRC-funded project “Spiritual Infrastructure, Space and Society: The Augustinian Friars in Late Medieval Ireland”. Speakers from Ireland and abroad will tackle a variety of aspects relating to the geenral theme on Mendicants on the Margins, from mendicant orders in geographical margins, the lesser-known orders such as the Augustinian friars, female communities and the Franciscan Third Order, to mendicant communities on the margins of the traditional model of urban mendicancy, such as foundations in non-urban environments, and aspects of mendicant studies challenging the traditional historiography of mendicant orders.
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