MSS 4 – 28/02/2012 – 17u00-19u00
17.00-17.30u: Presentatie van lopend doctoraatsonderzoek door Jeroen Vanwymeersch (Vakgroep Talen en Culturen van het Nabije Oosten en Noord-Afrika )
Het gedachtegoed van Taqī ad-Dīn Aḥmad Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328) omtrent apostasie en blasfemie
17.30-19.00u: Lezing door Jörg Sonntag (Technische Universität Dresden)
Religiosus Ludens. Monks and Nuns as Generators and Mediators of Entertainment Games in Medieval Society
After studies in Dresden and Marburg, Jörg Sonntag obtained his Ph.D. in 2007 at the Technische Universität Dresden, where he works since 2006 as researcher in various projects. His research focuses on rituals and symbolic moments in medieval religious communities, on entertainment games during the Middle Ages and on the reception of the Bible in the medieval period. He just finished two books on entertainment in religious communities: Aufschlag für Thomas von Aquin. Das mittelalterliche Religiosentum als Entwicklungsmotor vormodernen Entertainments and Religiosus ludens. Spiel und Sport in mittelalterlichen Klöstern und Orden. Jeux et sports dans les monastères et ordres religieux au Moyen-Âge.
MSS 5 – 20/03/2012 – 17u00-19u00
17.00-17.30u: Presentatie van lopend doctoraatsonderzoek door Lies Vervaet (Vakgroep Geschiedenis)
Domeinbeheer in een veranderende samenleving: het Sint-Janshospitaal in Brugge, ca. 1280-1580
17.30-19.00u: Lezing door Christian Liddy (Durham University)
Urban political culture in late medieval England
Trained as an urban historian, Christian Liddy wrote his first book on relations between major provincial cities and the English crown during the Hundred Years War. The book has recently been re-published in paperback. After this study of English towns his interests widened to encompass other kinds of semiautonomous and privileges spaces, notably the palatinate of Durham, on which he wrote his second book. Since then he has returned to the city and his next major research project is a study of urban political culture in late medieval England. He has a particular interest in urban revolt and popular protest. He is an associate editor of the journal Urban History, for which he writes an annual review of the periodical literature covering the medieval period. He is also a member of the organising committee of the PreModern Towns conference, which is held annually at the IHR.
MSS 6 – 17/04/2012 – 17u00-19u00
17.00-17.30u: Presentatie van lopend doctoraatsonderzoek door Stijn Van Nieuwenhuyse (Vakgroep
Talen en Culturen van het Nabije Oosten en Noord-Afrika )
Politieke conflicten binnen de Mamlukse elite van de 15e eeuw: een herevaluatie door prosopografisch onderzoek
17.30-19.00u: Lezing door Jeff Rider (Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT , USA)
The Emotional Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature
After undergraduate studies at Yale University, Jeff Rider obtained his MA and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is now professor of Romance Languages & Literatures at Wesleyan University. He is specialized in the literature and history of Northern Europe from the mid-eleventh to the mid-thirteenth centuries. In Flanders he is formost known for his edition of the journal of Galbert of Bruges and monographs on this subject. He also wrote on Arthurian texts and on medieval French literature. His latest book, co-edited by Jamie Friedman, deals with The Inner life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature. Grief, Guilt and Hypocrisy (Macmillan, 2011). Together with Jeroen Deploige and Walter Simons (Dartmouth College, NH) he obtained a duo-fellowship from the Flemish Academic Centre for Science and Arts for the project: Perception and Performance of Social Identity in the Nascent Urban Societies of the High Middle Ages (febr. 2012 – june 2012)
MSS 7 – 15/05/2012 – 17u00-19u00
17.00-17.10u: Jaarlijkse Algemene Vergadering van het H. Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies
17.10-18.10u: Lezing door Francis (James) Thomson
Did Russia ever really receive Byzantine culture?
Francis Thomson obtained his MA and Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge. After working for about 10 years at the Higher Institute for Translators and Interpreters in Antwerp, he teached for more than 20 years at the University of Antwerp. Since 1997 he is professor emeritus. He has been actively doing research in the field of medieval Slavic literature ever since the 1960s, his main objective being to trace the fate of Byzantine texts in the literature of Slavia orthodoxa. He pursued the compilation of a bibliography of all translations from the Dawn of Slavic letters to the death of Peter the Great in 1725. Francis Thomson has devoted hundreds of articles to this particular subject and is acknowledged as a leading scholar in his field. He has gained some fame for challenging received ideas about the reception of Byzantine literature and culture in the Slavic world. A collection of his papers has been edited as The Reception of Byzantine Culture in Medieval Russia, Aldershot: Ashgate 1999.
18.10-19.00u: Postersession met aansluitend receptie
MSS 8 – 19/06/2012 – 17u00-19u00
17.00-17.30u: Presentatie van lopend doctoraatsonderzoek door Sara Moens (Vakgroep Geschiedenis)
De horizonten van Guibert van Gembloux. Historisch-antropologisch onderzoek naar de wereld van een benedictijns briefschrijver tijdens de late twaalfde-vroege dertiende eeuw
17.30-19.00u: Lezing door Bethany Walker (Department of History, Missouri State University, MO)
Potentials of frontier studies in medieval Islam: Lessons learned from Jordan After obtaining in 1998 a Ph.D. at the University of Toronto with a thesis on “The Ceramic Correlates of Decline in the Mamluk Sultanate: An analysis of late Medieval Sgraffito Wares”, Bethany Walker taught at several universities of the U.S.A. At present she is associated professor of Middle Eastern History in the Department of History, Missouri State University. For the last decade, she was first and foremost involved in excavations in Jordan. Her publications concern principally ceramics in the late Islamic period, land management and social-economic history of the mamluks in Jordan. From 2011 till 2019 she participates in the international research project “History and Society of the Mamluk Era (1250-1517)”, sponsored by the Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn and funded by the DFG.
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