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“Locus Sacratissimus”. From Object to Place
The Eucharistic Reservation between the Fourth Lateran Council and the Council of Trent
We are pleased to inform you that next October the III International Conference on Art and Liturgy at the University of Cádiz will take place. This specialised conference, now in its third edition, is entitled “Locus Sacratissimus”. From Object to Place. The Eucharistic Reservation between the Fourth Lateran Council and the Council of Trent.
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This seminar aims to analyse Michel Sittow’s international visual and political contexts to understand his experiences within the artistic production and visual culture of late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Europe.
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Saint-Étienne
François et Claire d’Assise dans la littérature française du Moyen Âge
Organisées à l’occasion du huit-centième anniversaire de la mort du Poverello, ces journées d’étude internationales se proposent d’examiner la façon dont les figures de saint François et de sainte Claire furent représentées, promues ou critiquées dans la littérature française médiévale (à l’exception du corpus strictement hagiographique des Vies) écrite à l’intention d’un public « illettré », aussi bien aristocratique que populaire.
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Caen
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Representation
Call for applications “Visiting researchers” - ERC AGRELITA (2025)
Until now the reception history of ancient Greece in pre-modern Western Europe has focused almost exclusively on the transmission of Greek texts. Yet well before the revival of Greek teaching, numerous vernacular works, often illustrated, contained elaborate representations of ancient Greece. The ERC AGRELITA studies a large corpus of French language literary works produced from 1320 to the 1550s in France and Europe, before the first direct translations from Greek to French, as well as the images of their manuscripts and printed books. The project “The reception of ancient Greece in pre-modern French literature and illustrations of manuscripts and printed books (1320-1550) : how invented memories shaped the identity of European communities”, directed by Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas, opens guest researchers residencies in 2025.
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Caen
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Representation
Dans le cadre du projet ERC Advanced grant 2020 AGRELITA, « The reception of ancient Greece in pre-modern French literature and illustrations of manuscripts and printed books (1320-1550): how invented memories shaped the identity of European communities », dirigé par Prof. Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas (Principal Investigator), trois postes contractuels de post-doctorants à temps plein (100%) sont à pourvoir.
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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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Brno
Conference, symposium - Europe
Inventing Past Narratives. Venice and the Adriatic Space (13th-15th centuries)
This conference aims to explore the dialogue between Venice and the Adriatic area from a specific perspective: the construction of the past. We would like to create a dialogue between specialists from various disciplines and also examine the validity of interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of different cultural fields: textual and visual, material, and historiographic. The chronological and geographical perspective chosen covers the late Middle Ages and the early modern age and focuses on the interaction between Venice and other centres in the Adriatic space.
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Marburg
Die Ehe im Früh- und Hochmittelalter
Das Konzept „Ehe“ existiert seit jeher über unzählige Kultur- und Epochengrenzen hinweg. Sie wird romantisiert und emotionalisiert, aber – gerade im Mittelalter – auch als rechtliches und politisches Mittel genutzt. Dabei hat sich unser Bild von der Ehe im Früh- und Hochmittelalter in den letzten 15 bis 20 Jahren wesentlich geändert. Zentrale Aspekte des Themas Ehe, wie die Ausweitung des Inzestverbots, das „Konkubinat“ und die „Friedelehe“ wurden einer Neubewertung unterzogen und wirkmächtige Forschungskonstrukte revidiert. Daran knüpft unsere Tagung an, die sich der „Ehe“ in der Zeit von ca. 500 bis 1250 widmen und methodisch und inhaltlich neue Perspektiven entwickeln möchte.
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Girona
Geographical Mobility and Cultural Itineraris during the Late Miggle Ages
This congress seeks to take an interdisciplinary approach to a specific aspect of geographical and cultural mobility during the Late Middle Ages: the relationship between the geographical routes and itineraries taken by texts, books, artworks, and, in their wake, cultural ideas and tendencies. It will give special consideration to the Occitan-Catalan area as the starting, middle, and final points of these journeys. To investigate this topic, the focus will be on figures who are often left on the margins of study: the intermediaries and agents responsible for the transfer culture. Oral accounts, music, written texts, and artworks were all physically and intellectually transported by agents who were often under the cover of anonymity; this includes scribes, translators, minstrels, cantors, artists, and patrons or promoters, but also other figures such as pilgrims, students, clerks, diplomats, and merchants. These all played a fundamental role in developing, disseminating, and circulating ideas, and encouraged cultural and intellectual mobility in Europe.
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Villeneuve-d'Ascq
Representing and naming Greece in the Greek space, from the 14th-16th century
La journée d’étude portera sur les représentations de l’espace grec, ancien et « moderne », dans des œuvres textuelles et iconographiques du XIVe au XVIe siècle.
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Kalamazoo
The Virgin and the City : Urban Marian Spaces in Late Medieval Europe
The session wishes to analyze the Marian presence in Late Medieval European cities. The scholarly importance of the session lies in understanding how the Virgin became a part of urban landscapes and how the political and civic powers enhanced religious place‐making practices. How was the Mother of God accommodated and exhibited in civic space? What does Marian images’ location reveal about the relationship between devotion and public places? Why did the Virgin become the guarantor of civic unity? And finally, how did Mary personify the “urban ideology”?
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Montpellier
Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
Going beyond the limits: experiment with timbre in vocal and instrumental practice in modal music
This title, inspired by a Christopher Page article, points out a key question about the reenactment of medieval music: how to put in sound the vast repertoire that we have inherited. This question links the instruments and their music, as they immediately imply issues related to performance and organological knowledge. From the vocal point of view, it is even more of a burning issue as it requires for imagination and representation. Can experiment, practice and trial go beyond the limits imposed on us by the few material traces available ?
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Paris
Sounds and voices in the Middle Ages
Questes seminar
L’oralité, la performance, l’émotion, le paysage sonore, la vocalité permettent d’aborder l’homme d’une autre façon, peut-être plus anthropologique et plus sensorielle. Depuis quelques années, les travaux se multiplient pour toutes les époques mais l’époque médiévale n’est pas en reste et les projets de reconstitution sonore émergent pour Amiens, Avignon, Constantinople, Beowulf… La voix est centrale dans les sociétés médiévales où l’oralité permet aussi bien l’expression de soi, le négoce, le plaidoyer que le spectacle. D’une façon plus globale, tous les sons, quels qu’ils soient, construisent le paysage sonore de chaque société, à chaque instant. Cependant, leur caractère individuel, sensoriel et éphémère et l’absence d’enregistrement ont largement retardé leur étude. Il convient à présent d’étudier les traces de ce monde sonore disparu, au fil des trois séances de séminaire.
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Paris
Medieval musicology conference May 2020, calls for papers
Les rencontres de musicologie médiévale seront un lieu d’échanges entre musicologues médiévistes, chercheurs des disciplines connexes, ainsi que les divers acteurs de la musique et la musicologie médiévale. Elles seront l’occasion d’entendre des communications scientifiques pendant lesquelles seront présentés des travaux achevés, des recherches en cours ou des projets. S’y ajoutera un volet de réflexion disciplinaire sur la recherche et l’enseignement de la musique médiévale mené sous forme de courtes communications, de tables rondes et d’ateliers.
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Granada
Summer School - Representation
Over the past decades, there has been a growing interest among scholars in analysing how the Islamic heritage in Europe has been perceived, described, preserved, erased, negotiated or transformed in different areas of Europe, from medieval to modern times. However, those debates seldom crossed the borders of regional approaches. The aim of this training school is to discuss those issues from different and complementary perspectives, including art history, but also philosophy, history of science or anthropology, and to question the traditional regional narrative through a comparative examination of Islamic monuments in a wider Mediterranean perspective.
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Liège
Conference, symposium - History
Transationalism at Court
Le projet de recherche MALMECC vise à questionner les principaux modèles historiographiques relatifs à la période médiévale, en se concentrant plus particulièrement sur le rôle de la musique dans la politique, la religion et les arts en milieu curial. Un de ces modèles est celui de la création de l’Etat-nation, ce qui conduit à considérer comme périphériques de larges aires géographiques qui jouèrent pourtant à l’époque un rôle culturel et identitaire de premier plan mais qui ont depuis disparu au sein de nations modernes, à l’image de l’ancienne principauté de Liège, aujourd’hui « divisée » entre Belgique et Pays-Bas, ou les régions gouvernées par la dynastie de Luxembourg au cours des années 1250-1450, qui incluaient des parties des actuelles France, Pologne, République tchèque, Allemagne, Belgique et Luxembourg.
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Oxford
Music and Late Medieval European Court Cultures
Late medieval European court cultures have traditionally been studied from a mono-disciplinary and national(ist) perspective. This has obscured much of the interplay of cultural performances that informed “courtly life”. Recent work by medievalists has routinely challenged this, but disciplinary boundaries remain strong. The MALMECC project therefore has been exploring late medieval court cultures and the role of sounds and music in courtly life across Europe in a transdisciplinary, team-based approach that brings together art history, general history, literary history, and music history. Team members explore the potential of transdisciplinary work by focusing on discrete subprojects within the chronological boundaries 1280-1450 linked to each other through shared research axes, e.g., the social condition of ecclesiastic(s at) courts, the transgenerational and transdynastic networks generated by genetic lineage and marriage, the performativity of courtly artefacts and physical as well as social spaces, and the social, linguistic and geographic mobility of court(ier)s.
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Oxford
A MALMECC study day considering a range of themes centering around cultural transfers and scientific knowledge in papal Avignon, providing fresh understanding through interdisciplinary discussion based on a series of short position papers.
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Paris
Phenomena, practices and constructions in cultural history
Ce séminaire interdisciplinaire se propose de rassembler des jeunes chercheur·e·s et des chercheur·e.·s confirmé·e·s en histoire médiévale qui font du genre leur objet d’étude, ou qui l’utilisent comme un outil dans leurs recherches. Le but du séminaire est de se focaliser sur la réflexion identitaire et genrée au Moyen Âge. C’est pourquoi les approches d’histoire intellectuelle et culturelle ont été privilégiées. Néanmoins, les autres disciplines et les objets d’études mis en discussions seront également mobilisés.
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Cork
The symposium aims to bring together researchers working on aspects of mendicant orders traditionally considered as “marginal”, be it in geographical, topographical, gendered or historical terms, in order to go beyond the artificial construct of centrality and marginality, and get a fuller understanding of the impact of the mendicants on all levels of medieval society across Europe.
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