L'Agenda des Médiévistes

Booking has now opened for the Battle conference at Winchester in July 2014. This will be handled via the University of Winchester; please visit their website, to register. The final date for booking is 7 July 2014. More information here

The Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies is an annual conference devoted to English and Norman medieval history and culture. It focuses primarily, but not exclusively, on the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Its purpose, as formulated by its founder R. Allen Brown in 1978, is ‘to discuss and forward knowledge on all aspects of Anglo-Norman history, with particular reference to the Anglo-Norman realm, but also to be concerned with the Old English and Scandinavian contribution to the Anglo-Norman achievement in Italy, Sicily, Spain and the Crusades’.

The Proceedings of the Conference, now entitled Anglo-Norman Studies, have been published annually since 1978. All papers delivered to the Conference are given at the invitation of the Conference director and editor of Anglo-Norman Studies, at present David Bates.

With the conference’s traditional venue at Pyke House (on the field of the Battle of Hastings) no longer available, the conference has become peripatetic. Having been held in Norwich in 2010, York in 2011, and Bayeux in 2012, this year it will be held in Cambridge at Lucy Cavendish College from Friday 26 July to Tuesday 30 July. As in previous years, we have received generous help from our hosts, Lucy Cavendish College and the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge. As ever, the Conference seeks to encourage participation by younger scholars and for this reason five bursaries for postgraduates will be available this year. By having no more than four c.50 minute papers a day, the Conference ensures that there is plenty of time for discussion, both fairly formal and very informal.

Formal registration for the Conference will be done through Lucy Cavendish College. For details of these arrangements see the programme and registration forms accessible through this web-site. The closing date for non-residential registration has been extended to 28 June 2013. All queries about the conference should be addressed to the Director David Bates

In 1987 (the Conference’s tenth year and the 900th anniversary of the death of William the Bastard/Conqueror) the Conference met in Caen, and it has now established a tradition of travelling in every fifth year – in 1992 to Palermo, in 1997 to Dublin, in 2002 to Glasgow, and in 2007 to Gregynog, Montgomeryshire’. The 2012 Conference continued this tradition by being held in Bayeux.

This year’s Allen Brown Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Elisabeth van Houts and will be followed by a Reception hosted by the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge. The conference will finish at lunch-time on the Tuesday. As always, there will be visits to places of interest, including an exhibition of manuscripts in the Wren Library of Trinity College, an excursion to Isleham, the Fens, and Ely, and a walking tour of early medieval Cambridge.

Details of the programme are now available. To be put on the mailing list or for further information about the conference please contact the director, David Bates. Please note that there is no ‘call for papers’ for the Battle Conference and that all papers are read at the director’s invitation. Suggestions for suitable speakers are, however, welcome at any time. For further information about any other aspect of the conference please contact David Bates.

The R Allen Brown Trust has some limited funds and likes to use them to assist postgraduates to meet costs of attending the conference. Details of how to apply for bursaries will be posted soon.

Programme :

Thursday 24 July

1:30pm-4:00pm : Arrival at Winchester
Registration at University of Winchester ‘West Downs’
Tea and coffee will be provided.

5:00pm : Allen Brown Memorial Lecture: Edmund King (University of Sheffield) – Henry of Winchester: the Bishop, the City, and the Wider World
6:30pm-7:30pm : Reception, hosted by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Elizabeth Stuart, University of Winchester
8:00pm : Dinner

Friday 25 July

9:30am : Peter Fergusson (Wellesley College) – Canterbury Cathedral Priory as painted early in Henry II’s reign: object or subject?
10:45am : Tea/Coffee
11:15am : Katherine Weikert (University of Winchester) – The story of a place: Faccombe Netherton, Hampshire c. 900-1200
12:30pm : Buffet Lunch

1:30pm : John Crook – introduction to Walkelin’s Winchester Cathedral
3:00pm : Winchester Cathedral visit with Dr John Crook
7:30pm : Dinner

Saturday 26 July

9:30am : Richard Allen (St John’s College, Oxford) – Episcopal acta in Normandy 911-1204: the charters of the bishops of Avranches, Coutances and Sées
10:45am : Tea/Coffee

11:15am : Jennifer Farrell (University College Dublin) – History, prophecy and the Arthur of the Normans: the question of audience and motivation behind Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae
12:30pm : Buffet Lunch

1:30pm : Johanna Dale (University of Cambridge) – Royal inauguration and the liturgical calendar in England, France and the empire c. 1050-c. 1200
3.00–3.15pm : Tea/Coffee

3.30pm : Opportunity to visit Winchester sites, including Saint Cross
7.30pm : Conference dinner
8:45pm : Chris Lewis (King’s College, London) – The Book of Winchester

Sunday 27 July

9:30am : Nicholas Karn (University of Southampton) – Quadripartitus, Leges Henrici Primi and the scholarship of English law in the early twelfth century
10:45am : Tea/Coffee

11:15am : Lauren Mancia (Brooklyn College, City University of New York) – John of Fécamp and affective reform in eleventh-century Normandy
12:30pm : Buffet Lunch

1:30pm : Eljas Oksanen (Independent scholar, London) – Patterns of trade and travel in England during the long twelfth century
2:30pm : Tea/Coffee

3:15pm : [to be delivered by the winner of the Marjorie Chibnall Prize]
4:30pm : Short break

4:45pm : Gesine Oppitz-Trotman (University of East Anglia) – Royal appropriation of saints’ cults with special reference to Henry II and Frederick Barbarossa
7:30pm : Dinner

Monday 28 July

9:30am : Benjamin Pohl (University of Cambridge) – The illustrated archetype of the Historia Normannorum: did Dudo of St-Quentin write a “chronicon pictum”?
10:45am : Tea/Coffee
11:15am : Pierre Bauduin (University of Caen) – Richard II : figure princière et transfers culturels à la charnière des Xe-XIe siècles

Source de l’information : The Battle Conference

While recent scholarship has done much to illuminate early medieval frontiers, the relationship between the Carolingian frontier and its neighbouring societies has yet to be the focus of sustained, comparative discussion. This conference aims to initiate a dialogue between scholars of the Carolingian frontier and those of the societies it bordered, and in so doing to reach a better understanding of the nature and extent of contacts in frontier regions and the various manners in which these contacts – not to mention frontier regions themselves – were conceptualized. Moreover, it will explore the interplay between various types of contact – whether military, political, economic, social, or religious – and the various ways in which these contacts could underpin, or undermine, existing relationships, both between the local societies themselves and between political centres.

By bringing together an international group of established and postgraduate scholars whose work lies both inside and outside the Carolingian empire, this conference seeks not only to open up comparative perspectives, but also to place the Carolingian empire within its global historical context. Alongside seven invited papers, proposals are welcomed from postgraduate and postdoctoral students whose work focuses on the Carolingian frontier, and particularly from scholars of the societies which the Carolingians bordered.

Programme :

Friday 4th July
Room 6, Cambridge History Faculty, the Sidgwick site (off West Road)

12.30 – 1.00 : Registration
1.00 – 1.10 : Welcome – Ingrid Rembold, Fraser McNair, Sam Ottewill-Soulsby

1.10 – 2.40
Chair: Michael Humphreys (Cambridge)

Lorenzo Bondioli (Oxford) – A Carolingian frontier? Louis II, Basil I and the Muslims of Bari
José Miguel Rossello Esteve and Isabel Busquets Porcel (Granada) – The Balearic Islands and the Carolingian Empire: an unknown relationship
2.40 – 3.00 : Tea

3.00 – 4.30
Chair: Fraser McNair (Cambridge)

Eduardo Manzano Moreno (Madrid) – The Carolingians and al-Andalus: An Overview
Sam Ottewill-Soulsby (Cambridge) – “The Path of Loyalty”: Charlemagne and his Muslim Allies in Spain

Saturday 5th July
JCR TV room, Sidney Sussex College, Sidney Street

9.00 – 10.30
Chair: Helena Carr (East Anglia)

Jonathan Jarrett (Birmingham) – “Completely detached from the kingdom of the Franks”? Political identity in Catalonia in the very late Carolingian era
Arthur Westwell (Cambridge) – Sundering the West: The Byzantine conception of western borders and its impact on the mission to Moravia
10.30 – 11.00 : Tea

11.00 – 12.30
Chair: Corinna Matlis (Cornell)

Caroline Brett (Cambridge) – The Breton March: contested frontier or power vacuum?
Fraser McNair (Cambridge) – Bretons, Normans, and the question of ethnicity on the tenth-century Breton frontier
12.30 – 1.30. Lunch

1.30 – 3.00.
Chair: Rosamond McKitterick

Grégory Girard (Lyon) – Burgundy and the Carolingians: reconquer, reorganise, integrate and conserve
Wojciech Falkowski (Warsaw) – Neustria: competing influences, persistent traditions, and ongoing rivalries
3.00 – 3.30 : Tea

3.30 – 5.00.
Chair: Bernhard Zeller (Vienna)

Ingrid Rembold (Cambridge) – The Saxon wars and the Obodrites
Ivo Štefan (Prague) – Charlemagne and « Wild » East. Transformation of Slavic World in Carolingian Period
6.30 : Conference Dinner

Sunday 6th July
JCR TV room, Sidney Sussex College, Sidney Street

9.00 – 10.30
Chair: Nora Berend (Cambridge)

Robert Smith (Cambridge) – Hedeby after Ansgar: the continued contacts with Carolingian Christianity in the border emporia of Hedeby
Jens Christian Moesgaard (Copenhagen) – Carolingian coins in Denmark: commerce and prestige
10.30 – 11.00 : Tea

11.00 – 12.30
Chair: Helmut Reimitz (Princeton)

Joachim Henning (Frankfurt) – title to be announced.
Daniel Melleno (Berkeley) – Between borders: the place of the Slavs in the Northern politics of the Danes and Franks in the ninth century

Informations pratiques :
The Carolingian frontier and its neighbours
Friday, July 4 2014 – Sunday, July 6 2014

Faculty of History, Cambridge University
Faculty of History
Cambridge
United Kingdom

Organisers:
Ingrid Rembold (Cambridge University)
Fraser McNair (Cambridge University)
Samuel Ottewill-Soulsby (Cambridge University)

Registration for the conference is now open! If you would like to register, please fill out the form in the PDF below and send it to the address given. If you have any questions, please e-mail thecarolingianfrontier@gmail.com.

Source de l’information : Cambridge University

Chemnitz/Dresden
July 3 – 05, 2014
International Conference at Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz and Technische Unversität Dresden

Location in Chemnitz (July 3–4): Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Museum am Theaterplatz, Theaterplatz 1, 09111 Chemnitz
Location in Dresden (July 5): TU Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SLUB), Vortragssaal (1. OG), Zellescher Weg 18, 01069 Dresden

All lectures are public. Registration isn’t required. The conference language is English.

Concept and organization: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Müller, Dr. Bertram Kaschek

The role of religion in the work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder has been hotly debated for almost a century. Karl Tolnai (1925) and Carl Gustaf Stridbeck (1956) have argued that the works of Bruegel expressed a worldview that stood at the edge of Christian Orthodoxy (whether Catholic, Lutheran, or Calvinistic). Despite the skepticism with which the theories of Tolnai and Stridbeck have been met by many art historians, a number of their intuitions and insights have proven to be fruitful starting points for research in the last twenty years. The artist once thought of as “Peasant Bruegel” is now credited with a certain humanistic-theological sophistication, and his works are generally considered as both intelligent and innovative pictorial inventions.

However, current research on Bruegel remains divided on the question of the religious identity of the artist and his work. Whereas some researchers categorically rule out the possibility of identifying his religious position, others have attempted to reach new insights through detailed analysis of his images. In this controversy, the interest in the religious dimension of Bruegel’s work is occasionally denigrated as an old-fashioned methodological paradigm, which has been superseded by new media-reflexive and epistemologically concerned inquiries.

The conference strives to relativize this seeming dichotomy as a fiction and as barrier to further research. As the individual contributions will demonstrate, the integration of religious and theological perspectives facilitates not only an iconographical analysis of Bruegel’s work but also an analysis of the media-specific strategies that he employs in his images. Against the backdrop of iconoclasm and the revolt against Spanish rule, it is especially important to emphasize how interested the members of the cultural elite of the southern Netherlands were in questions of spiritual orientation, and that they apparently wanted to see these interests reflected in the visual arts.

Programme :

Thursday, July 3, 2014 (Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Museum am Theaterplatz)

15:00–15:45 : Welcome Coffee

15:45–16:00 : Ingrid Mössinger (Generaldirektorin der Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz): Greeting and Opening
Walter Moens (Flämische Repräsentanz, Berlin): Words of Welcome

16:00–18:00 : Dr. Bertram Kaschek (TU Dresden): “Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion: An Introduction”
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Müller (TU Dresden): “What Makes a Bruegel a Bruegel? Reflections on Iconography and Visual Rhetoric”

18:00 : Joint Visit of the Exhibition “Pieter Bruegel und das Theater der Welt”

Friday, July 4, 2014
(Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Museum am Theaterplatz)

9:00–10:00 : Eric Piltz, M.A. (TU Dresden): “Dealing with Religious Diversity: Confession, Labeling and Ambiguity in Bruegel’s Antwerp”
10:00–10:30 : Coffee Break

10:30–12:30 : Dr. Jessica Buskirk (TU Dresden): “The First Temptation of Christ: An Evolving Iconographic Trope in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp”
Annett Gerlach, M.A. (Städel Frankfurt/TU Dresden): “Beyond Good and Evil: St. James and the Magician Hermogenes. Religiosity in Two Prints by Pieter Bruegel the Elder”
12:30–15:00 : Lunch Break

15:00–16:00 : Giorgio Mangani (Ancona): “Abraham Ortelius and Pieter Bruegel”
16:00–16:30 : Coffee Break

16:30–18:30 : Dr. Thomas Schauerte (Albrecht-Dürer-Haus, Nürnberg): “Pride and Humility: Christian Symbolism in Bruegel’s Representations of Ships”
Prof. Dr. Ralph Dekoninck (Université de Louvain): “Falling Idols, Rising Icons. The Flight into Egypt and the Image Debate in the Time of Bruegel”

Saturday, July 5, 2014
(TU Dresden, SLUB, Zellescher Weg 18, Vortragssaal)

9:30–10:30 : Prof. Dr. Gerd Schwerhoff (TU Dresden): “Justice or Tyranny? Pieter Bruegel and the Myth of the Inquisition”
11:00–13:00 : Prof. Dr. Reindert Falkenburg (NYU Abu Dhabi): “Pieter Bruegel’s Series of the Seasons: Divine Order and the Missing Painting”
Prof. Dr. Michel Weemans (EHESS Paris): “Double Image, Double Seeing in Pieter Bruegel’s Religious Paintings”
13:00–14:00 : Lunch Break

14:00–15:00 : Prof. Dr. Anabella Weismann (Universität Oldenburg): “Pieter Bruegel’s Blue Cloak: On the Disguised Religious Meaning of his Netherlandish Proverbs”
15:00–15:30 : Coffee Break

15:30–17:30 : Dr. Tine Meganck (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brüssel): “Art, Life and Religion in Pieter Bruegel’s Census at Bethlehem”
Wolf Seiter, M.A. (TU Dresden): “After Beham: Bruegel’s Peasant Kermises as Criticism”

17:30–18:00 : Concluding Remarks and Discussion

The conference is supported by “Gesellschaft von Freunden und Förderern der Technischen Universität Dresden e.V.”.

Source de l’information : TU Dresden

Les compilations historiques
30 juin 2014
Organisation : Julian Führer (IHA)

Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris – Institut historique allemand
Hôtel Duret-de-Chevry 8 rue du Parc-Royal 75003 Paris
Tel +33 (0)1 44 54 23 80 Fax +33 (0)1 42 71 56 43
info@dhi-paris.fr http://www.dhi-paris.fr

Entrée libre sur inscription préalable : event@dhi-paris.fr

Programme :

09h00 : Accueil et introduction

09h15–10h00 : Elisabeth van Houts (Cambridge) – Further reflections on the transmission of the Gesta Normannorum Ducum in twelfth-century France
10h00-10h45 : Elizabeth A.R. Brown (New York) – Remarks on the problems and puzzles of BN lat. 12710
10h45-11h15 : Pause café

11h15-12h00 : Julian Führer (Paris) – La place des œuvres d’Hugues de Fleury et de Suger dans les compilations historiques françaises
12h00-12h45 : Peter Stotz (Zürich) – Legendo vel audiendo talia certamina: Weltgeschichte, aufbereitet für langobardischen Laienadel
12h45-13h30 : Pause déjeuner

13h30-14h15 : Thomas Waldman (Philadelphia) – Bibliothèque Mazarine, manuscrit 2013 – quelques réflexions sur Suger et la construction de la nouvelle église
14h15-15h00 : Promenade vers la Bibliothèque Mazarine 23 Quai de Conti 75006 Paris
15h00-17h00 : Visite à la Bibliothèque Mazarine avec autopsie du ms. 2013 (nombre de places limité)

Source de l’information : Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris