The history of heralds is a largely underexplored one. In spite of the important role the office of heralds played in the late medieval courtly culture and beyond, only few scholars have dedicated their attention to this office by now. However, their number has been growing over the past years.
The workshop at the University of Münster will offer an occasion to scholars interested in the research of the office of arms to meet and discuss their interests and their common topics under a systematic approach. The workshop aims to structure the field of research in mutual discussions and to combine the different efforts and ideas to a first synthesis. The goal of the two-part workshop (March 2014, March 2015) is to elaborate a compendium on the history of the office of arms written in co-authorship. It is supposed to identify the state of the art, to define the broad lines for future research, and to demonstrate the topic’s huge opportunities for historical research.
Programme :
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
2:00 – 2:30 pm : Welcome and introduction – Torsten Hiltmann (Münster)
2:30 – 4:00 pm :
The Middle Ages: Between Perception and [Arte]facts
Henri Simonneau (Lille) – Le héraut d’armes, personnage de roman (XIIe-XVe siècles)
Otfried Krafft (Marburg) – Heralds in medieval Hesse
Gemma Watson (Southampton) – Roger Machado (d. 1510): a herald’s life in objects
4:30 – 6:00 pm
The Burgundian Heydays: Functions and Cultural Transfer in the 15th Century
Alexandre Grosjean (Dunkirk) – Le héraut et l’histoire à la fin du Moyen Age
Sonja Dünnebeil (Vienna) – Herolde im Dienst des Ordens vom Goldenen Vlies
Nils Bock (Münster) – Medien adliger Kommunikation: Wappenkönige, Ernholde, Herolde und Persevanten
Dinner
Thursday, 27 March 2014
9:00 – 10:30 am
The 16th century: Turning Point for the Burgundian Legacy?
Pierre Couhault (Paris) – L’office d’armes au XVIe siècle : un métier en mutation
Jean-Christophe Blanchard (Nancy) – Les hérauts d’armes d’Antoine, duc de Lorraine (1508-1544) : Des « hérauts-messagers » aux « hérauts-artistes »
Clive Cheesman (London) – Institutional identity and history in an age of learning: heralds and their alternative pasts
11:00 am– 12:30 pm
Special focus: Heralds and Heraldry
Torsten Hiltmann (Münster) – Heralds and heraldry in the Middle Ages
Steen Clemmensen (Farum) – Heralds and armorists as editors of armorials
Miguel Metelo de Seixas (Lisbon) – Un savoir disputé: la rivalité entre hérauts et noblesse pour la production d’œuvres héraldiques au Portugal (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)
Lunch
14:00 pm – 15:30 pm
Early Modern Times: Are there Enduring Functions of Heralds?
Steven Thiry (Antwerp) – Law enforcement or living heraldry? Assessing the armorial function(s) of heralds in the long seventeenth century (Spanish Monarchy and Archducal Netherlands)
Anna-Maria Blank (Berlin) – Herolde in politischen Versammlungen
Anne-Sophie Bessero (Paris) – Héraut, héraldique et pompes funèbres à l’époque moderne
16:00 pm – 17:00 pm
Modern Times: The Case of the Holy Roman Empire
Michael Göbl (Vienna) – Mosaiksteine zur Geschichte des neuzeitlichen Heroldswesens im Reich
Bernd Klesmann (Cologne) – Das Heroldsamt und der Konflikt um die spanische Erbfolge. Zeremonialpolitik und barocker Fürstenstaat, 1700-1714
17:30 pm – 19:00 pm
Getting down to Business: The Book Project
Introduction to the Book Project and Discussion
Friday, 28 March 2014
9:00 – 10:30 am :
Constitution of Working Groups
11:00 am – 12:30 pm :
Questions of Organisation and General Discussion
Informations pratiques :
26.03.2014-28.03.2014
Münster, Johannisstr. 4, Raum 101
Torsten Hiltmann
Historisches Seminar, Domplatz 20-22, 48143 Münster
hiltmann@uni-muenster.de
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Torsten Hiltmann, Juniorprofessur für die Geschichte des Hoch- und Spätmittelalters und Historische Hilfswissenschaften
The Workshop is sponsored by:
« The performance of coats of arms” (Dilthey Fellowship of the VolkswagenFoundation)
“Fondation pour la protection du patrimoine historique, culturel et artisanal” (Lausanne)
International Office of the University of Münster
Source de l’information : History of Heralds
L'Agenda des Médiévistes 