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Burgos

Call for papers - History

Building the medieval diocese. Strategies, agents and instruments

The Gregorian Reform led to a reframing of the role of bishops and diocesan institutions that cemented their power and ultimately permitted the construction of the great Gothic cathedrals of Europe. To mark the 800th anniversary of the Cathedral of Burgos, we propose to explore the dynamics, strategies, institutions and personnel behind the construction of the medieval diocese leading to the building of the temples we admire today. Our focus will be on the period 1150-1250, culminating as it does in the construction of the Cathedral of Burgos, but we welcome papers on other parts of Europe and set in other medieval periods that explore the following themes related to the emergence of the mature medieval diocese.

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Cerisy-la-Salle

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Poetry and Politics in the Viking and Norman Diasporas (Ninth-Thirteenth Centuries)

The conference will address the relationships between poetry and power in the medieval world, fostering exchanges between historians and scholars in the fields of Latin and vernacular literatures. The poems under scrutiny will be those composed in the Viking and Norman diasporas between the ninth and the thirteenth century, covering a wide geographical expanse, from Iceland to Southern Italy, through Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia, Kievan Rus’ and part of the Latin East. The main questions which will be studied are: (1) the specific context for the composition of political poetry (e.g. encomiastic or satiric); (2) poetry as a means for the representation of power or the transmission of moral or religious conceptions (e.g. mirrors for princes, didactic or gnomic poetry); (3) the reasons for preferring poetry over prose in order to convey political ideas.

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Lyon

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Integrating the margins in the Middle Ages (5th-15th century)

CIHAM doctoral study day

Entre transition (périphéries, confins) et rupture (limites, écarts, frontières), les marges sont toujours relatives, pensées dans leur rapport avec une norme. Le modèle centre-périphérie a longtemps retardé leur étude, les cantonnant à une définition en négatif vis-à-vis d'un centre tout puissant, où elles étaient instituées comme le pôle perdant au sein d'un système dissymétrique. Poser la question de l'intégration des marges (territoriales, spatiales, mais aussi sociales), doit permettre de dépasser ce constat pessimiste et ce désintérêt – allègrement battu en brèche par les recherches des deux dernières décennies – pour les marges. En jouant sur toute la polysémie du terme, des marginalia des manuscrits aux marches territoriales, en passant par les individus et les groupes marginaux, ces journées d'études souhaitent susciter une réflexion transdisciplinaire, entre littérature, histoire et archéologie ; à la croisée des mondes médiévaux chrétiens et musulmans, conformément aux intérêts fondateurs du laboratoire du CIHAM – UMR 5648.

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London

Call for papers - Middle Ages

The Classics in the Pulpit. Ancient Literature and Preaching in the Middle Ages

The aim of the conference is to shed new light on this both striking and irritating practice. Papers (25 min) can deal with topics such as the reasons and occasions for the use of the classics in preaching, the hermeneutic and literary strategies applied in order to adapt pagan mythology to homiletic needs, the social and educational background of preachers and their audiences, the connections of classicizing sermons with other fields of literature such as vernacular poetry, or the discourse they provoked within the clerical milieu. Applications from all relevant disciplines (e.g. history, literature, theology, philosophy) are welcome.

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Lyon

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Around the Classics: Paratextual Frame of Latin Classics in the Middle Ages

13th Celtic Conference in Classics

In medieval manuscripts, a classical text is rarely copied alone. It is most often accompanied by paratextual elements that have been intentionally added to the text. Such elements come in a wide variety of formats: explanatory or complementary texts (accessus, prologues, vitae, commentaries, glosses, glossaries, etc.) images (illumination, diagrams, drawings, etc.), or elements structuring the manuscript, the text or the page (index, table of chapters, titles, division into books, chapters or paragraphs, sections, etc.). They can be transcribed at the beginning, the end, or next to the classical text, within its writing frame or in its margins.

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Call for papers - History

Materializing the border

Frontière·s. Revue d’archéologie, histoire et histoire de l’art

Frontière·s. Revue d’Archéologie, Histoire & Histoire de l’art aims at providing an Open Access epistemological framework for Ancient and Medieval scholars. It focuses on the polysemous and discussed term ‘border’. For its third issue, the authors are invited to write on the theme “Materializing the border”.

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Strasbourg

Call for papers - History

Funerary practices and identity/ies

The passing of an individual in a community generally leads to the implementation of a complex funerary operational chain repeated upon each death. This behaviour can therefore be opposed to non-funerary deposits, characterized by the absence of funerals and/or of a dedicated tomb (corpse rejection or abandonment, burial deprivation - Boulestin 2016). The study of a given group’s “practice” (ibid.) and of its variability allows to identify differences in the deceased’s treatment and to grasp some aspects of the society of the living. Rituals and funerals – which are difficult to assess in the case of pre- and protohistoric populations - as well as funeral gestures, thus reveal one or several of the deceased’s identities. They can consist of their individual identity, related for instance to their sex, age or social status, or of their collective identity, which is “lived and produced” (Lenclud 2008) and refers to their belonging to a group. In the latter case, the role of a funerary practice is to maintain the links between its actors and to ensure its own continuity.

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Montpellier

Study days - Early modern

Consolation: from Antiquity to the late 17th century

10th study day

La rencontre vise à poursuivre les investigations lancées dans le champ de la littérature consolatoire de la première modernité en incluant les grands rhétoriqueurs et Montaigne. Il s'agit également de confronter les corpus modernes à l'échelle européenne.

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Montreal

Call for papers - Europe

Arbitrariness and arbitration: the grey areas of power (12th-18th century)

Dans le monde occidental contemporain régi par le droit et la loi, par les constitutions et les chartes, envahi par une normativité galopante, l’idée que le pouvoir puisse avoir une part d’arbitraire peut surprendre ou choquer. En 1690 pourtant, Antoine Furetière proposait une définition nuancée de l'arbitraire, reflétant une signification ancienne inspirée de la pratique du droit : « qui dépend de l’estimation des hommes, qui n’est point fixé par le droit, ni par la loi » ; un sens que l’on retrouve déjà chez Jean Froissart en 1397 : « qui dépend de la décision du juge », tout simplement. Ce colloque, au carrefour de l’histoire, du droit, de la philosophie et de l’anthropologie, propose d’envisager de manière pluridisciplinaire ou interdisciplinaire et par une lecture comparative les pratiques arbitraires/arbitrales dans le champ du droit privé, du droit pénal et de l’exercice du pouvoir public.

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Lyon

Call for papers - History

Towards a Decentered History of Dance

How is history moved, reconfigured, stimulated, by current research on dance? In connection with the Lyon Dance Biennale and the forthcoming publication of A History of Dance in the West (Ed. Seuil, Sept. 2020), this international conference in Lyon, France, aims to extend questions addressed by scholars’ contributions to the book, as well as generate entirely new dialogues via various acts of “decentering” dance historical scholarship. The polysemic notion of decentering is here understood as an invitation to reevaluate theoretical models, methods, approaches and historiographies of dance.

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Charleroi

Conference, symposium - Sociology

Women of glass, glass-making women

Cette rencontre internationale, inédite, alterne communications à caractère historique et témoignages vivants, associant ainsi le regard de scientifiques et universitaires à ceux de professionnels de la pratique du verre, des cheffes d’entreprise, des musées et tout simplement des passionnés. Y sera cernée la place occupée par la gente féminine en verrerie, monde que l’on disait pourtant réservé aux hommes, aussi loin que remontent les études réalisées. Or, en faisant le choix de multiples aller-retour entre le passé et le présent, l'on comprend désormais combien la femme a toujours été présente en verrerie et l'est toujours.

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Paris

Study days - Middle Ages

The world object in the Middle Ages

Closures and ordering in literary, iconographical and architectural productions

Le monde médiéval (mundus), création divine, ordonnée et parfaite, se suffit du principe divin qui en règle le fonctionnement. Cette perfection du monde, inséparable de sa clôture et de son intégrité, semble aussi avoir été pensée comme principe de la création humaine. Partant de réflexions sur le haut Moyen Âge, l’objectif de cette journée d’étude sera de suivre la pertinence, la survivance et peut-être l’effacement et le remplacement de ce schéma de pensée sur toute la période médiévale.

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Paris

Call for papers - Representation

Greece(s) - Histoire de l'art journal, no 86

Histoire de l'art, no 86

2021 marks the bicentennial of the Greek uprising which resulted, at the end of a long war, in the country’s independence:Greece was thus born as a modern nation while romanticism, particularly in France, made it one of its favorite themes,carrying out out a vibrant philhellenic movement. The commemoration should not, however, cover up that there were andare other Greeces, from antiquity to our own day. The theme of this issue is also given in the plural since the construction of Greek art in the modern era is but one of the phenomena considered here. It is the plurality of constructions of Greecein art which unifies the collection of studies and essays which we envision.

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Paris

Call for papers - Representation

Poetics of the night

Night Studies from Antiquity to the modern age

Pour l'heure, les Night Studies constituent un objet scientifique surtout abordé par des contemporanéistes spécialistes d'histoire urbaine. Nous souhaiterions initier une réflexion collective relevant des problématiques des Night Studies appliquées aux périodes antique à moderne, en menant une interrogation conceptuelle et notionnelle d'ordre philosophique, heuristique, herméneutique, épistémologique, esthétique et historiographique sur la spécificité de la nuit.

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Call for papers - Middle Ages

Visibility of religious difference in Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean

Hamsa. Journal of Judaic and Islamic Studies, nº 7 (2020)

The goal of this volume is to show ways in which religion marked a perceptible difference in Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean. Considering visibility in the wider sense of the word -also including acoustic perception and other aspects that would differentiate them- religion made people either from their own will or under external coercion- visible within medieval societies. The tension between visibility through othering or self-labelling, and invisibility through cultural assimilation was a constant in the complex medieval cities and rural areas. It also carried on beyond the medieval period, sometimes reproducing previous problems, sometimes in the shape of new challenges. How did these dynamics play out? Can common patterns be found? What caused them to come into play? Where do we observe compliance or reluctance towards the aforementioned normative orders? Do we see spatial manifestations of these tensions? These (and other) questions may be addressed in case studies from different geographic areas and time periods.

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Madrid

Call for papers - Middle Ages

(In)materiality in medieval art

Complutenses of medieval art, 14th study day

Les XIV^e journées Complutenses d'art médiéval proposent d'aborder la question de la matérialité comme facteur essentiel de la production artistique, ainsi que la poétique de l'immatérialité et la dimension intangible de l'expérience esthétique au cours du Moyen Âge. Les propositions de communication autour des thèmes suivants sont bienvenues : conditions matérielles de la création artistique ; pratiques et moyens sous-estimés ; utilisations poétiques et sémantiques du matériel et de l'immatériel ; histoire culturelle des matériaux ; sensorialité et immatérialité ; « transmatérialité » et « transmédialité ».

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Nanterre | Paris

Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

Guido delle Colonne and his Reception in Medieval Europe

Guido delle Colonne’s Historia destructionis Troiae has been a phenomenal success since its composition at the end of the 13th century. Nevertheless, academic studies remain limited and questions remain open about the author himself (judge, historian and poet?), about his sources – including the essential Trojan novel in verse by Benoît de Saint Maure –, about the construction and style of his work and about its intents in a particularly troubled period. While significant progress has been made in recent years, studies are far from being exhaustive and the case deserve to be considered anew. Historia's interest lies in particular in the translations, adaptations and summaries it generated throughout Europe until the 17^th century. This international conference aims thus to shed new lights on the original text as well as on the diversity of its appropriations, between filiation and emancipation. In this regard, the spectacular diffusion has contributed to strenghten a Trojan European literature.

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Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

Call for papers - History

Actors of the environment : living, exploiting, representing

Sharing our environment is at the heart of many conflicts. Indeed, it’s the subject of multiple ownerships and practices, sometimes competing each other, which testifies the plurality of strategies of its actors in their way of living, exploiting and thinking the environment. In a historical, trans-disciplinary and cultural approach, this workshop aims to deconstruct and to understand the practices, relationships and uses of actors who participate at the ecological structures that make up ancient and contemporary societies.

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Poitiers

Call for papers - Middle Ages

Space(s) and power(s)

Young researchers study day 2020 (JANUA association)

L'objectif de ces deux journées d'étude est de présenter les travaux de jeunes chercheurs sur le thème « espace(s) et pouvoir(s) » dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire et méthodologique laissant place au dialogue. Le choix de ce thème, large et riche en possibilités, permet un accès à toutes les disciplines et à toutes les périodes historiques, afin de favoriser l'ouverture d'esprit et l'apprentissage dans un moment d'émulation intellectuelle.

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Pessac

Call for papers - Law

Legal writings - the forms and legitimacies of legal decisions since the Middle Ages

Formes et légitimités des décisions de justice depuis le Moyen Âge

Dans le renouvellement des analyses portant sur l’histoire de la justice, la pratique judiciaire et l’application des peines sont bien souvent au cœur de l’attention. La focale portée sur les effets recherchés de cette justice (la pacification, l’imposition d’un ordre juridique étatique) amène à privilégier le rituel judiciaire, le rituel pénal, les modes amiables ou négociés de résolution des conflits, mais aussi les évitements et résistances opposés à la justice. D’une certaine manière, tout se passe comme si le travail effectif de cette justice se résumait à la procédure, à la peine et aux stratégies des justiciables. Reste pourtant dans l’ombre le travail de mise en forme des décisions de justice, c’est-à-dire les moyens déployés par l’institution pour faire voir et faire valoir, pour dire et faire accepter ses verdicts ; pour, en un mot, légitimer par une opération de formalisation la violence brute de ses décisions.

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