Appel à contribution – Diplomacy, trade and navigation between medieval cities of Atlantic Europe

Najera – 11th International Meetings of the Middle Ages
28-29 July, 2014
“Diplomacy, trade and navigation between medieval cities of Atlantic Europe”

This Academic Meetings seek to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of medieval studies. Each Congress has one particular special thematic strand on an area of interdisciplinary study in a wider context.

Next summer the town council of Nájera will once again host the International Meetings of the Middle Ages, organised by the Medieval Research Group on Atlantic Cities of the University of Cantabria (http://atlanticports.unican.es/) and supported by the Autonomous Government of La Rioja.

The international conference will take place in Nájera (Spain), from July 28-29.

The topic of this year is about Diplomacy, trade and navigation between medieval cities of Atlantic Europe.

We will focus on :
Diplomacy between cities
Cities and commercial Exchange
Commercial networks and organisation
Navigation in later Middle Ages
Connectivity across Atlantic Europe
Cultural Exchange

This fascinating conference may be a good springboard to facilitate this goal.

Call for papers

Historians and Graduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts for research presentations on topics related to « Diplomacy, trade and navigation between medieval cities of Atlantic Europe”. Abstracts should be no more than 500 characters and should clearly state the purpose, thesis, methodology, and principal findings of the paper to be presented. Successful proposals will be published in 2015.

All abstracts and a short CV (in English or Spanish) should be submitted electronically (either as a MS Word document or as text in the body of an e-mail) to Dr. Jesús A. Solórzano-Telechea at: solorzaja@unican.es

The deadline for submissions will be May 31th, 2014.

The languages of the meetings are Spanish, English, French, German, Dutch, Italian and Portuguese.

Venue: Teatro Doga, Nájera (Spain-European Union).

Source de l’information : H-Net

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Prix – Rogier van der Weyden Prize 2014

Roger de le Pasture / Rogier Van der Weyden Association
AISBL
Hôtel de Ville
Enclos Saint-Martin, Rue Saint-Martin
B-7500 Tournai, Belgium

The international non-profit scientific association, Roger de le Pasture / Rogier van der Weyden hereby calls for nominations for the biennial « Roger de le Pasture / Rogier Van der Weyden Prize » to be awarded at the end of 2014.

This year the prize will reward two Master’s Theses related to the history of figurative arts in the Southern Netherlands during the Burgundian period (late 14th – early 16th centuries). The first place will be awarded one thousand five hundred euros (1500 €) and the second place will be awarded one thousand euros (1000 €).

The works should be written in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian or Spanish, and must have been defended during the academic years of 2013 or 2014. Candidates will include with their application: a summary of their work as well as the jury results and a recommendation letter from their advisor.

The thesis should be submitted in two copies and should reach the Association before Friday October 3, 2014, proof of postage, and should be sent by regular mail to Mr. Serge HUSTACHE, President of the International scientific association Roger de le Pasture / Rogier van der Weyden, Cité Georges Point, rue Paul Pastur, 4, B-7500 Tournai, Belgium. Candidates must include their e-mail address with the package for e-mail confirmation of receipt. Copies will not be returned. They will be given to the Association’s collection in the Tournai City Library and, for ten years, they may only be consulted with author’s permission.

The Board of Directors of the Association is competent for any and all problems relating to the prize or for failure to comply with the above regulations. The Board’s decisions are final and no reasons will be given for non-selection.

Recent laureates of the Roger de la Pasture / Rogier van der Weyden Prize:

2012 : Élodie DE ZUTTER (Université libre de Bruxelles) und Ruben SUYKERBUYK (Universiteit Gent), for their Master thesis on a portrait of Philip the Good kept in the St Magdalen Hospital in Ath and Michiel Coxcie’s copies of old masters.

2010 : Dominic DELARUE (Universität Heidelberg) and Silvia CAPORALETTI (Università degli Studi diPadova), for their Master thesis on the Vie de saint Josse, an illuminated manuscript from the Burgundian ducal library and the influence of Flemish art on Giovanni Boccati and Antonio da Fabriano, painters from the Marche region.

2008: Chrystèle BLONDEAU (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) and Didier MARTENS (Université libre de Bruxelles), for a collection of three important publications.

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Appel à contribution – Remembering the Habsburgs: Dynastic Funeral Monuments in Early Modern Europe

Remembering the Habsburgs: Dynastic Funeral Monuments in Early Modern Europe
61st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America
Berlin, March 26-28, 2015

The past two decades have seen growing interest in early modern funerary monuments and the religious and socio-political contexts in which they emerged. Nevertheless, the monuments of the diverse and numerous members of the Habsburg dynasty – found all over modern-day Northern and Southern Europe – have not yet received the investigation they deserve. Brigitta Lauro’s 2007 catalogue “Die Grabstätten der Habsburger” lays the foundations for such research, but these monuments should be (re-)examined in greater depth, as key objects for both historians and art historians, to better understand the practices of commissioning funerary sculpture in general and their importance within early modern society. This panel therefore intends to investigate, from a broader view, early modern Habsburg funerary monuments, larger funerary chapels, their settings and the ephemeral aspects around their installation, such as funeral processions and temporary architectural structures. Areas to be addressed include temporality, materiality, memoria and fama, dynastic identity, framing and viewership, as well as whether or not these “objects of memory” can be understood as a cohesive group within the wider context of funerary monument production in early modern Europe.

We are seeking papers addressing specific Habsburg funerary monuments or the development of these artworks more broadly after about 1500. Please send a paper title, abstract (max. 150 words), a short biography (max. 300 words) and a full CV to Ivo Raband (ivo.raband@ikg.unibe.ch) and Léon Lock (leon.lock@asro.kuleuven.be). The submission deadline is 31 May 2014.

Source de l’information : The Renaissance Society of America

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Journée d’étude – The materiality of the record. A workshop on sources

2 June 2014, Birkbeck, University of London, 2-6.30pm
Dreyfus Room, 26 Russell Square

This interdisciplinary workshop is part of a series organized by the ARCHIves project based at Birkbeck and funded by the European Research Council, devoted to the history of documentary production and archival preservation in late medieval and early modern Italy.

The workshop will consider different genres of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century documents from the point of view of their material form, combining textual, linguistic, diplomatic and palaeographic analysis. How were texts arranged on the page? In which language and in what kind of script were they written? What was the relationship between textual and non-textual symbols? In other words, how does the shape of a document help us understand its meaning and the uses to which it was put? Historians, linguists, diplomatists and palaeographers will give short presentations accompanied by a discussion of documentary examples. Reproductions will be circulated to all participants, and a basic reading ability of Italian manuscripts is expected, but transcripts will be supplied too. The discussion will be held in both English and Italian, and a basic glossary of Italian technical terms will be circulated. The workshop is addressed primarily, but not exclusively, to MPhil and PhD students and Post-Docs working in medieval and early modern Italian history, literature, language and art history.

Places are limited; to participate, please write to italianarchives@bbk.ac.uk. A limited amount of bursaries to cover at least some of the travel expenses is available and will be allocated on the basis of merit by 30 April. If you wish to apply, please do so as soon as possible, describing your research and the reasons of your interest (no more than 300 words).

Programme :

2:00 : Filippo de Vivo (Birkbeck) – Introduction
Chiara de Caprio and Francesco Senatore (University of Naples, Federico II) – Scritture mediane (registri municipali e cronache): processi di verbalizzazione, modalità di costruzione dei testi e tecniche narrative (Regno di Napoli, secc. XV-XVI)
3.30 Coffee break

 

4:00 : Isabella Lazzarini (University of Molise) – Appointing to an office: political choice, documentary practices and archival uses in late medieval Italy. The case of 15th-c. Mantua
Marc Smith (Ecole Nationale des Chartes/Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes) – Palaeographical aspects of documentary practices
David Rundle (University of Essex) – The victory of italic in international diplomatic correspondence: the case of England
6.15 : Conclusion
Programme : here

 

Source de l’information : Birkbeck University of London

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