Bruges | Groeninge Museum | 20-21 May 2015

Organising committee:
Bram Caers (UAntwerpen)
Lisa Demets (UGent)
Tineke Van Gassen (UGent)
Valerie Vrancken (KU Leuven)

Registration and information: workshopbruges2015@outlook.com

Registration fee: €25

Programme :

Wednesday 20 May 2015

09.30 – 09.45 : Registration
09.45 – 10.00 : Welcome by Marc Boone (Ghent University)

10.00 – 10.30 : Methodological introduction by Jan Dumolyn (Ghent University)
10.30 – 11.15 : Keynote lecture by Jeff Rider (Wesleyan University): Urban Historiography in the High Middle Ages.
11.15 – 11.30 : Coffee

Session 1: Urban historical consciousness: chronicles or historical writing?
Moderator: Johan Oosterman (Radboud University Nijmegen)

11.30 – 11.55 : Jenine de Vries (Durham University): It’s not just about chronicles. Forms of historical writing in late medieval towns in England and the Low Countries.
11.55 – 12.20 : Ina Serif (Freiburg University): Urban chronicles – urban perspectives? Historical texts in new codicological contexts
12.20 – 13.00 : Lunch

Session 2: Urban historiography and late medieval revolts
Moderator: Jelle Haemers (KU Leuven)

13.00 – 13.25 : Laura Crombie (University of York): Writing on the Frontier; Jehan Nicolay and an urban viewpoint on the emotional impact of late fifteenth-century war.
13.25 – 13.50 : Dirk Schoenaers (University of St. Andrews): ‘Hot Tramp, I Love You So (?)’ Narratives of Revolt in the Burgundian Low Countries
13.50 – 14.15 : Lisa Demets (Ghent University): From regional to urban historiography? Rewriting the ‘Excellente Cronike van Vlaenderen’ during and after the Flemish Revolt in Bruges and Ghent
14.15 – 14.30 Coffee

Session 3: The complexity of urban historiographical traditions
Moderator: Jan Burgers (University of Amsterdam)

14.30 – 14.55 : Marco Tomaszewski (Freiburg University): ‘Basler Chroniken’. What is urban historiography in Basel? Answers from editions and manuscripts.
14.55 – 15.20 : Bram Caers (University of Antwerp): The changing face of Mechelen urban historiography in the long sixteenth century (1477-1630)
15.20 – 15.35 : Coffee

Session 4: Round table discussion: ‘Audience and authorship’

15.35 – 16.20 : Moderator: Anne-Laure Van Bruaene (Ghent University): Social environment and intended audience of urban historiography.

16.20 – 17.05 : Moderator: Johan Oosterman (RU Nijmegen): Intellectual and scribal authorship.

17.05 – 18.05 Guided city tour in Bruges (Jan Dumolyn)

19.00 Conference Dinner

Thursday 21 May 2015

09.00 – 09.15 : Registration

09.15 – 10.00 : Keynote lecture by Godfried Croenen (University of Liverpool): Jean Froissart and the urban historiography of Valenciennes

Session 5: ‘Traditional’ urban historiography? City officials and urban historical writing
Moderator: Jan Dumolyn (Ghent University)

10.00 – 10.25 : Tineke Van Gassen (Ghent University): The Diary of Ghent: late medieval historiography between urban chancery and personal memory
10.25 – 10.50 : Paul Trio (KU Leuven): Ypres as a historiographical breeding ground in late medieval Flanders. Origin and interconnectedness of urban and regional historiography.
10.50 – 11.15 : Peter Bakker (VU Amsterdam): Historiography of the urban society in the Northern Netherlands (during the15th-16th century)
11.15 – 11.30 Coffee

Session 6: Round table discussion: the materiality of writing

11.30 – 12.15 Moderator: Remco Sleiderink (KU Leuven): Manuscripts and prints: the materiality and style of writing
12.15 – 13.00 Lunch

Session 7 : Religious identity and urban historical writing
Moderator: Robert Stein (Leiden University)

13.00 – 13.25 : Kristof Papin (independent, Ghent University): ‘Looking over the back of our friar’. The Town chronicle of Bergues. The medieval sources of an early modern town chronicle.
13.25 – 13.50 : Pia Eckhart (Freiburg University): Writing about one’s past in the cathedral city. The example of late medieval Constance.
13.50 – 14.15 : Louise Vermeersch (Ghent University): Printed almanacs: a popular medium for urban historiography and religious dissent?
14.15 – 14.30 Coffee

Session 7: Heraldry, nobility and urban historical identity
Moderator: Guido Marnef (University of Antwerp)

14.30 – 14.55 : Mario Damen (University of Amsterdam): An ‘urban’ chronicle in a ‘noble’ armorial? ‘Wapenboek Münster’ and the urban environment of a noble patron.
14.55 – 15.20 : Marcus Meer (Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster): Signs of ldentity, Signs of the City: The Heraldic Display of Urban ldentity in the Augsburg Chronicle and the Gossernbrot Armorial

15.20 – 15.45 : Jelle Haemers (KU Leuven) and Frederik Buylaert (VU Brussels): Chronicle writing and noble identity in the fifteenth-century Low Countries
15.45 – 16.00 Coffee

Session 8: Round table discussion: ‘New typologies of urban historiography’

16.00 – 17.00 Moderator: Judith Pollmann (Leiden University): Towards a new typology of late medieval urban historiography?
17.00 – 17.30 Final conclusions by Anne-Laure Van Bruaene (Ghent University)

Source : IAP « City and society »