The heraldic heritage of the Italian cities is still a monument to the ubiquity of heraldry in the Middle Ages. However, research into the heraldry of the Italian cities in particular, and in fact heraldry in the city in general, has remained relatively scarce. The conference ‘Heraldry in the Medieval City: The Case of Italy in the European Context’, which will take place 5-7 May 2015 in Rome, sets out to change this by bringing together historians, art historians, historians of visual culture and urban history as well as heraldists to propose new pespectives on heraldic signs in the city and open up new tracks for future research.

Programme :

Tuesday, 5 May

14:00-14:30 Arrival of participants

Introduction

14:30-15:30 : Laurent Hablot (Rome/Poitiers)/Torsten Hiltmann (Münster) – Introduction
Christoph Dartmann (Hamburg/Münster) – Heraldry as element of the visual culture of late medieval Italian cities. Some remarks on culture and society of the city-communes
15:30-16:00 : Coffee break

Heraldry in the city

16:00-17:00 : Andreas Rehberg (Rome) – Heraldry in municipal Rome – some reflections on a scarcely studied topic
Matteo Ferrari (Poitiers) – Héraldique et « mise en signes » de l’espace urbain dans le Poitou au Moyen Âge
17:00-17:30 Coffee break

Rome

17:30-18:30 : Emiliano Bultrini (Rome) – Il potere e le sue simbologie: nobiltà, araldica e topografia a Roma tra XII e XIV secolo
Edouard Bouyé (Dijon) – Pontifes et urbanistes. Le marquage héraldique des papes dans les villes de leurs États (XIII-XVIe siècles)
Dinner

Wednesday, 6 May

Patricians and nobility

9:00-10:00 : Luisa Gentile (Turin) – L’héraldique dans les villes des Lombards
Marc von der Höh (Bochum) – Heraldry and the City – the case of Cologne (13th-15th century)
10:00-10:30 : Coffee break

10:30-11:30 : Jean-Christophe Blanchard (Nancy) – Metz, ville impériale, ville armoriale. Le patriciat, metteur en signes du théâtre urbain
Paul-François Broucke (Amiens) – Décors héraldiques et architecture sacrée dans la cité. L’exemple du duché de Bretagne à la fin du Moyen Âge (XIVe – XVe siècles)
11:30-12:00 : Coffee break

12:00-13:00 : Laura Cirri (Florence) – Sacred space and family representation in Florence during the Trecento and the Quattrocento
Katja Putzer (Nuremberg) – Heraldry in Nuremberg’s Sacred Spaces
13:00-14:30 : Lunch

Heraldic representation of the city itself

14:30-15:30 : Marta Santos (Coimbra) – Heraldry in Portuguese Medieval Towns. A unique context?
Vittoria Camelliti (Udine) – L’araldica nelle immagini di città tra Medioevo e Rinascimento
15:30-16:00 : Coffee break

16:00-17:00 : Tania Lévy (Brest) – Les lys et le lion. Les armoiries dans la ville de Lyon autour de 1500
Laurent Héry (Brest) – Armoiries et communication héraldique lors des entrées d’Anne de Foix dans les cités de Vénétie (1502)
17:00-17:30 : Coffee break

17:30-18:00 : Emmanuel de Boos (AIH) – Deux documents armoriés d’origine municipale : Le Biccerne de Sienne et les Annales de Toulouse
Dinner

Thursday, 7 May

Case studies

9:00-10:00 : Marco Bogade (Potsdam) – Coats of arms within the Representative Iconographic Programmes of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
Elena Paulino Montero (Florence/Madrid)/Alicia Inés Montero Málaga (Madrid) – Afficher un pouvoir négocié. L’héraldique nobiliaire dans une cité du domaine royal – le cas des Velasco à Burgos au milieu du XVe siècle
10:00-10:30 Coffee break

10:30-11:30 : Luigi Tufano (Turin) – I segni della fidelitas del nobile. Scudo regio e committenza nobiliare tra devozione e propaganda – Il caso dei Carafa nella Napoli del Quattrocento
Philippa Woodcock (Warwick) – Heraldry and Regime Change. The Trivulzio Chapel at San Nazaro, Milan, 1499-1522
11:30-12:00 Coffee break

Conclusion

12:00-13:00 : Conclusion in form of a round table discussion, with Michel Pastoureau (Paris), Miguel Metelo de Seixas (Lisbon), Alessandro Savorelli (Pisa)
End

Informations pratiques :
Rome
5th-7th May 2015

Abstracts of the individual papers will successively be published on Heraldica Nova

The workshop is sponsored by the Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale (CESM), University of Poitiers; Research Project ‘The Performance of Coats of Arms’ (VolkswagenFoundation), University of Münster; International Research Universities Network (IRUN); Ecole française de Rome; German Historical Institute Rome (DHI); Académie de France à Rome

Source : Heraldica