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Caen

Marginalities in the Insular Worlds of North-Western Europe (8th–13th c.)

The CRAHAM invite proposals for papers for a conference exploring the theme of marginalities in the insular worlds of North-Western Europe from the 8^th to 13^th centuries.

Bristol

Summer School - Middle Ages

Medieval Studies Summer School 2025

This summer school is dedicated to students who want a foundation in the methodologies needed to examine primary medieval sources and to explore Bristol, as a region of crucial importance in shaping the medieval history of Western Europe.

Ariano Irpino

Call for papers - Middle Ages

The first generations of the conquest – 2: to settle

Third meeting of the "Pax Normanna" programme

These study days will consider the issues surrounding the settlement of the conquerors, by comparing the different situations encountered in the Norman worlds in Normandy, in Great Britain and Ireland, in southern Italy and in Sicily, in Ifrîqiya and in the Holy Land.

Poitiers

Call for papers - History

Samurai and Knights, Medieval and Early Modern Worlds East and West in Texts and Films: Inter-Cultural Echoes and Historical, Mythological and Aesthetic Perspectives

This international conference will explore the cultural differences, similarities and potential bridges between the eastern and western worlds as envisaged during the medieval and early modern periods, including their represention in art, texts and legends, poetry, and pictorial and cinematographic productions. Since the areas of investigation are expansive, Japan is granted a primary place as the pivotal axis for the eastern world. This does exclude Persia, India or China. The northern, English and Mediterranean European areas will primarily represent the occidental world.

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Time

AMAES – Études médiévales anglaises, numéro 100

On the occasion of its anniversary issue, Études médiévales anglaises invites papers on the measuring of time, as well as on the marginal treatment of time in ritualized celebrations which punctuate daily life, sometimes subverting its usual hierarchies, as in the case of carnival and misrule. Papers can consider material representations of time and its measure, as well as the subtle representation of past, present and future in medieval literature.

Fontevraud-l'Abbaye

Conference, symposium - History

Governing the Plantagenet Empire (1152-1224)

Authority and sites of power

Le vaste conglomérat de principautés territoriales hétéroclites que nous appelons, faute de mieux « l’empire Plantagenêt » est ingouvernable à cause de cette disparité même. Au sein de la maison d’Anjou ou parmi les seigneurs, les révoltes se succèdent. Elles ripostent à un gouvernement plus contraignant que par le passé. Le roi contrôle mieux l’espace, interdisant la construction d’autres châteaux que les siens ; il impose de nouveaux lieux de pouvoir ; il accroît la pression fiscale ; il lève davantage des troupes, souvent mercenaires ; il fait fi des libertés ecclésiastiques jusqu’à fomenter le meurtre de l’archevêque Thomas Becket dans sa cathédrale. Pour triompher, la royauté ne peut se contenter de la seule force physique de ses troupes. Elle doit s’imposer aussi sur les consciences, transformant sa « puissance » brute en « autorité » légitime, acceptée de tous.

Poitiers

Call for papers - History

The politics and poetics of down-and-outs

Rogues and picaros in medieval and renaissance Spain and England

Within Western literature, the picaresque was quickly perceived as a “historically and geographically delimited tradition” specific to Spain during the Golden Age, a genre apart from the rest, almost without precedent. Going against this common misconception, recent studies have reminded us of the importance of the Apuleian and Lucian origins of this ‘new’ narrative formula. The wily beggar thus seems the prodigal son of the Ancients. Shouldn't we therefore extend the reflection and, at the very least, reconsider the scientific cliché that sees in this character the perfect (dissident) example of the Renaissance hero? Didn't the Middle Ages also contribute to the creation of the cunning rogue?

Call for papers - History

Time

Études médiévales anglaises journal, no.100

The French Journal of Medieval English Studies Études Médiévales Anglaises is seeking submissions for its 100^th anniversary issue focusing on the notion of “time”. On the occasion of its anniversary issue, the journal invites papers on the measuring of time, as well as on the marginal treatment of time in ritualized celebrations which punctuate daily life, sometimes subverting its usual hierarchies, as in the case of carnival and misrule. Papers can consider material representations of time and its measure, as well as the subtle representation of past, present and future in medieval literature: romance worlds often conflate several layers of time which coexist in the mind of the reader.

Orléans

The emergence of sentencing (12th-13th centuries)

The economy of salvation and the challenge of public order

La journée d'étude s'inscrit dans deux projets scientifiques : le premier annuellement à Orléans pour valoriser la recherche en histoire du droit médiéval et le second en partenariat avec d'autres institutions autour de la théologie comme matrice du discours juridique. Il s'agit là d'étudier en lien entre elles la pénitence, notamment au regard des institutions (pénitencerie apostolique, pénitenciers diocésains) et la concomitante « révolution de l'inquisitoire », c'est-à-dire l'apparition d'une nouvelle procédure d'enquête confiée à un juge au service d'une autorité publique en cours d'affirmation. Un nouveau paradigme de vérité se met en place au tournant des XII^e et XIII^e siècles visant à déterminer à la fois la matérialité des faits en cause et les dispositions subjectives de l'individu poursuivi.

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Pestilence and resilience

Études Médiévales Anglaises (EMA) journal issue 97

The French Journal of Medieval English Studies Études Médiévales Anglaises (EMA) invites you to submit an article for its 97th issue on the theme "Pestilence and Resilience", a current topic that we are all led to reflect on in our daily lives. We recommend that interested authors send a title and a brief description of the content of their article as soon as possibl

Valencia

Conference, symposium - History

Imagined Identities and Communities in the Late Middle Ages

On December 9 and 10 of this year, the “Cultures i Societats de l'Edat Mitjana” (CiSEM) research group, led by Dr. Antoni Furió, professor of medieval history at the University of Valencia, will hold a conference with the title: Imagined Identities and Imagined Communities in the Late Middle Ages. Far from being strictly contemporary creations, nations, the most elaborated product of imagined communities, had their relevance throughout the medieval centuries. The most recent historiography has tried to establish the mechanisms that contributed to building this type of imaginary in which, according to some anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists, collective identities are taking an increasingly prominent role in international geopolitics. For this reason, this process is presented as a great opportunity to discuss the most recent historiographical contributions, and to try to shed more light on a transcendental historical phenomenon on the evolution of human societies.

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Medieval Conceptions and Practices of Space

Revue « Études Médiévales Anglaises »

Though space is by no means a medieval concept (in 14th century use, the word referred primarily to time, or to an interval between two objects, rather than to the abstract idea of an extended area that can be filled or crossed), the concept in its complexity has over the last decades gained considerable critical importance in medieval studies. Medievalists have always paid attention to spatial questions, namely in the shape of inquiries into the location of national or religious communities, into medieval practices of pilgrimages, processions and travels, or into the symbolic associations of various places (the forest, the garden, the castle…).

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Medieval revolutions

The French Journal of Medieval English Studies BAM is seeking submissions for a special issue focusing on the notion of “revolution”. The word “revolution” does not appear in English before the 14th century. The word is borrowed from French revolucion, derived from the Latin revolvere. In medieval Latin the meaning of revolutio becomes both scientific and religious as it describes the movement of celestial bodies and the transmigration of souls (metempsychosis). The first known occurrence of the word “revolution” to describe an abrupt change in social order dates from 1450. However, that use does not become common until the end of the 17th century.

Paris

Wills and testaments in medieval Europe (13th-15th Centuries)

This innovative bilingual study day, co-organised by Benoît Grévin (LaMOP-CNRS) and Melissa Barry (LaMOP- Panthéon-Sorbonne University), combines a series of conference papers with a special session of Benoît Grévin’s seminar of Middle-Latin translation. It aims to draw up a comparative historical assessment of the textual practices applied to wills and testaments in Late-Medieval Europe from a socio-historical, a linguistic, a philological, and a literary/rhetorical perspective.

Heidelberg

Conference, symposium - Europe

The Roll in Western Europe in the Late Middle Ages

Rolls were used in all aspects of medieval society. Key areas in which rolls were utilized include administration, genealogies, poetry, liturgy and heraldry. Despite the significance of the roll as a form for medieval writing culture, it has not received as much attention in respect to its significance. The international conference The Roll in Western Europe in the Late Middle Ages focuses on the materiality and the praxeology of late medieval rolls (1200 – 1500), particularly in England and France. The presentations deal with questions regarding the purpose and function of the rolls, the advantages and disadvantages of the roll form and why it was preferred for certain texts over other forms, such as the codex.

Oslo

Call for papers - History

Peacemaking and the Restraint of Violence in Medieval Europe (1100-1300)

Practices, Actors and Behaviour

In high medieval Europe, conflict took a number of different forms, from large-scale battles, such as disputes over crowns, power and lands, to more local disputes over inheritance and property. In the absence of well-developed administrative structures which could limit conflict, cultural conventions, rituals and behavioural norms evolved to moderate violence within the elite community.

Brest

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Epistemological Issues of Research on Medieval Britain and Brittany in History, Language and Literature

Depuis une cinquantaine d’années, le champ d’étude des Bretagnes médiévales a suscité des approches et des questionnements à la fois divergents et renouvelés. Ces changements aboutissent aujourd’hui à une situation contrastée, où de nombreux domaines du savoir paraissent en chantier, pour ne pas dire comme un champ de bataille où il semble difficile de réconcilier les résultats apparemment opposés obtenus suivant des démarches différentes. Dans quelle mesure et de quelle manière la culture populaire et l’oralité ont-elles par exemple été traitées et intégrées à ce champ de recherche ? Comment s’est-on interrogé, peut-on encore s’interroger, avec quels présupposés et dans quelle perspective, sur les origines de la légende arthurienne ou des vies de saints ? La sociolinguistique peut-elle contribuer à renouveler l’approche des langues médiévales ? Dans le domaine de l’archéologie, comment les résultats des fouilles ont-ils été analysés et interprétés et quel usage en est il fait aujourd’hui ?

Kalamazoo

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Walruses, Whales and Narwhals

Maritime Ivories in Western Europe, 900-1500

In the history of carved ivories, maritime mammals have often been eclipsed by the elephant, considered as a nobler ivory to which walrus or whale ivory would only be a poor man's substitute. But this historiographical view is not without its shortcomings, as not only did walrus hunting play a significant role in the first European explorations toward the west, but the trade for those ivories went as far as the Islamic world and even the Far East. This session at the 52^nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, sponsored by the National Museum of Scotland, aims to address the variety of questions posed by the maritime ivories: how the raw material was collected, how it was traded, the workshops that carved them and their specific symbolic value in medieval treasuries

Cerisy-la-Salle

Call for papers - History

Aquatic Animals and Monsters of the Northern Seas Imagination, knowledge, exploitation, from Antiquity to 1600

The Colloquium is devoted to the history of fish, aquatic monsters and mammals in the northern seas (the English Channel, North Sea, Baltic Sea, Norwegian Sea, the North Atlantic), from antiquity to 1600. The colloquium is based on three themes: knowledge and the transmission of knowledge (medical knowledge, zoological knowledge, descriptions, identifications); savoir-faire and exploitation (aquatic farming, fishing, cooking, medicine); explorations – real and imaginary.

Ariano Irpino

Conference, symposium - Early modern

The historiography of the Norman worlds (17th-21st centuries)

Construction, influence, evolution

The gathering organised at Ariano Irpino will examine in particular the historiographical constructions developed since the 17th century by looking at the place of the "Normans" in the "national story" of each country. It will also evaluate their influence on our knowledge of the history of the Norman worlds. What axioms have influenced the historiographical debates? Beyond their identification and classification, it is also important to understand their genealogy, their implications, their pervasiveness, their rejection and their deconstruction. The colloquium will also look to explore the orientation of a history of the Norman worlds developed from questions that go beyond national boundaries, schools and academic traditions.

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