Appel à contribution – Peregrinatio pro amore Dei: Aspects of Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Publié le 29 juillet 2013 par RMBLF
June 12-14, 2014
Denver, Colorado 
The Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association invites panel and paper proposals on the conference theme, “Peregrinatio pro amore Dei: Aspects of Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.” The conference dates are June 12-14, 2014, and venue is SpringHill Suites Marriott in downtown Denver, CO, adjacent to the Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Pilgrimage to Christian holy sites and shrines was a mainstay of western European life throughout the medieval and Renaissance periods, and the journeys to places such as Canterbury, Santiago de Compostela, Assisi, Rome, and Jerusalem informed a devotional tradition that encouraged participation from all social classes, evoked commentary by chroniclers, playwrights, and poets, and inspired artistic, iconographic, and literary expressions. Even when the faith-based culture of the Middle Ages began to transform into the more empirical (and experiential) centuries of the Renaissance and Protestant Reformations, pilgrimages were still very much on the minds of writers and geographers as a source of both inspiration and criticism (Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Bunyan, Hakluyt, and Raleigh).

The RMMRA Program Committee welcomes individual paper and panel proposals that address the conference theme from disciplines within the late antique, medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation periods (c. 4th to 17th Centuries). We invite all approaches, but special consideration will be given to those papers that attempt historical, literary, scientific, archaeological, and anthropological inquiries of pilgrimage, especially in the following subject areas: holy sites & shrines; cults of relics and saints; salvific aspects (healing, science, medicine); gender studies; geographical reckoning (faith-based vs. empirical); theological promotion, dissuasion, and contestation; mystical and philosophical beliefs (and criticism); internationality; secular vs. clerical approaches; considerations about (and representations of) space; relevant aspects of communitas and liminality; travel and communication; and, finally, intellectual history.

As always, all paper and session proposals related to Medieval and Renaissance studies are welcome ! (Theme not required).
Proposals for panels or abstracts for individual papers should be directed via email (Word, .pdf, or Rich Text) to one of the conference’s co-organizers: Kim Klimek (klimekk@msudenver.edu) and Todd Upton (tj_upton@icloud.com). Abstracts are due November 15, 2013.
Source de l’information : The Medieval Academy Blog
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Publication – Arnaud Baudin, Ghislain Brunel et Nicolas Dohrmann, dir., "L’économie templière en Occident. Patrimoines, commerce, finances"

Publié le 29 juillet 2013 par RMBLF
La question du rôle économique des Templiers est le parent pauvre de l’historiographie des ordres militaires. Ce colloque international a permis de dresser le bilan des recherches menées depuis vingt-cinq ans. En toile de fond, revient la question lancinante des croisades et des combats en Terre sainte ou de la Reconquista espagnole. Afin d’assurer le versement annuel des revenus nécessaires à ces guerres lointaines (les responsions), « les enfants chéris de saint Bernard », développèrent un important réseau de commanderies tourné vers l’agriculture, la vigne et l’élevage. L’essor de leurs activités financières et bancaires prolongea les opérations de dépôt ou de crédit qu’ils assuraient aux échelons local et régional. Quant aux exemptions de péages et de taxes, elles facilitèrent l’intégration de l’Ordre dans les circuits d’échanges occidentaux, lui permettant d’écouler plus aisément ses productions propres. 

Les auteurs abordent les sujets les plus variés : depuis la mise en œuvre des préceptes de la règle des Pauvres chevaliers du Christ, adoptée à Troyes en 1129, jusqu’aux soutiens familiaux et politiques qui permirent l’enracinement territorial du Temple ; de la géographie et de la structure du temporel en France, en Angleterre, au Pays de Galles, au Portugal, en Italie et dans l’Europe germanique, jusqu’aux conséquences de la guerre en Orient sur le fonctionnement des maisons templières ; de la comparaison des modèles et programmes économiques de l’Ordre avec ceux du nouveau monachisme du XIIesiècle, jusqu’aux conflits à répétition avec les évêques et les autres communautés religieuses ; ou encore le rôle et les limites des privilèges commerciaux qui leur ont été accordés, notamment dans l’aire des foires de Champagne. 
Table des matières :

Philippe Adnot, Président du Conseil général de l’Aube – Préface
Agnès Magnien, Directrice des Archives nationales – Préface
Michel Balard – L’économie templière. Introduction

Mise en place des structures templières
Simonetta Cerrini – L’économie idéale des « Pauvres chevaliers du Christ et du Temple de Salomon » d’après leur règle et leurs statuts. Quelques réflexions 
Anthony Luttrell – The origins of the Templars’ Western Economy
Thierry Leroy – La formation du temporel templier en Champagne (1127-1143)
Kristjan Toomaspoeg – Le grenier des templiers. Les possessions et l’économie de l’Ordre dans la Capitanate et en Sicile
Mariosaria Salerno – Les templiers dans le sud de l’Italie ( Abruzzes, Campanie, Basilicate, Calabre): domaines et activités

Les templiers, entre ville et campagne

Damien Carraz – L’emprise économique d’une commanderie urbaine : l’ordre du Temple à Arles en 1308
Bruno Tadeu Salles – Les commanderies d’Arles et de Bayle et leurs conflits avec les moines de Sylvéréal et de Saint-Antoine : considérations sur la « seigneurialisation » du Temple en Basse-Provence ( 1176-1244 ) 
Michael Joseph Peixoto – Growing the Portfolio: Templar Investments in the Forests of Champagne
Jean-Marie Yante – Les templiers et les foires de Champagne
Exploitation agricole et gestion domaniale
Michel Chossenot, Françoise Le Ny et Guy Venault – Les activités de meunerie de la commanderie de La Neuville-au-Temple (Marne). Essai de synthèse des données archéologiques et archivistiques 
Michel Miguet – Création et gestion des maisons du Temple en Bourgogne. Quelques aperçus
Mickaël Wilmart – Salariés, journaliers et artisans au service d’une exploitation agricole templière. La commanderie de Payns au début du XIVe siècle 
Mike Jefferson – Edward II and the Templar Lands in Lincolnshire
Helen J. Nicholson – The Templars in Britain : Garway and South Wales
Rodrigue Tréton – Aux origines de la transhumance entre Méditerranée et Pyrénées : templiers, cisterciens et essor du pastoralisme ( XIIe-XIIIe siècles ) 

Colonisation et structure globale de production hors de France

Marie-Anna Chevalier – La diversité de l’économie templière en Orient : aperçu des ressources et des activités économiques de l’Ordre
Ernesto Jana – Les origines des propriétés et des revenus des territoires templiers au Portugal : un aperçu 
Karl Borchardt – The Templars and Thirteenth-Century Colonisation in Eastern Central Europe
Alain Demurger – Conclusions
Informations pratiques :
Arnaud Baudin, Ghislain Brunel et Nicolas Dohrmann, dir., L’économie templière en Occident. Patrimoines, commerce, finances. Actes du colloque international (Troyes-Abbaye de Clairvaux, 24-26 octobre 2012), Langres, 2013. 543 pages, Broché. ISBN : ISBN 978 2 87825 520 1 . Prix : 29 euros.

Pour commander l’ouvrage : 
Conseil général de l’Aube 
Direction des Archives et du Patrimoine 
131 rue Étienne Pédron 
10000 Troyes. 
Prix : 29 € + 2,45 € de frais de port 
Source de l’information : INRAP
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Appel à contribution – Digitizing the Medieval Archive 2014

Publié le 28 juillet 2013 par RMBLF
International conference at Toronto’s Centre for Medieval Studies
March 27-29, 2014
With keynote speakers:
David Greetham (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Stephen G. Nichols (Johns Hopkins University)
Caroline Macé (KU Leuven)
Consuelo Dutschke (Columbia University Library)
Discussion about the digitization of archival fonds and library holdings pertaining to the Middle Ages boasts a wide profusion both in online settings and in real time. As the question of how medievalists may work within this digital environment becomes an increasingly more widely discussed topic, we invite scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences to convene in Toronto to consider and discuss the possibilities of the digitized medieval archive.
There has been and continues to be considerable variation in the introduction, evaluation and continuation of digital storage. Digital technology has expanded and complicated the idea of the medieval archive. In bringing together the two concepts, digitization and archivization, we aim to address questions about the dissemination of and access to materials and research, but also such long-standing questions relating to the methodological and practical ways we carry out research and think about our material – thinking digitally about the Middle Ages.
This conference sets out to explore ways in which medievalists might harness the vast, digital possibilities for a cross-institutional and interdisciplinary medieval archive. Possible topics may include but are not limited to the following:
  • Implications of digital archives for the editing of medieval texts
  • Methodologies and/or ideologies behind archivization
  • The archivization of already existing digital databases
  • Digitized archives/collections as enabling or limiting research
  • The digital (re)construction of medieval collections
  • Compilation and order of medieval texts
  • Textual forms / reading methods
  • Fluidity of the medieval text and the Internet
  • Digital visualization of medieval documents, art and literature
Please submit a short C.V. and abstracts of 250 words by October 1, 2013 for consideration.
Email: digitizingmedievalarchive@gmail.com
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Publication – Couples en justice IVe-XIXe siècle, éd. C. Gauvard et A. Stella

Publié le 27 juillet 2013 par RMBLF
Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2013, 256 p.
Passer devant un juge pour régler un conflit de couple est aujourd’hui chose banale. Mais banal ne veut pas dire récent. Le phénomène a une longue histoire, retracée ici dans le cadre de l’Europe occidentale pré-industrielle, des Pays-Bas à l’Espagne et à l’Italie, de la France à la Roumanie, sans négliger les évolutions de la diaspora juive installée au sein de la société chrétienne. Partout, les infractions possibles à la loi qui définit le mariage se dur­cissent et les procès se multiplient devant les tribunaux laïques ou ecclésiastiques. Rapts, viols, mariages clandestins, adultères et toutes les formes de violences conjugales sont autant de chefs d’accusation maniés par la justice, mais le plus souvent à la demande du couple ou de sa parenté. La question est bien de savoir comment et pourquoi la justice a pu être utilisée, voire instrumentalisée comme une arme dans les querelles matrimoniales, et quel regard a pu être porté sur ces conflits où s’est en particulier joué le sort des femmes.
Table des matières et bulletin de commande : Publications de la Sorbonne
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Colloque – Du Royaume goth au Midi mérovingien (34e journées internationales d’archéologie mérovingienne de l’AFAM)

Publié le 26 juillet 2013 par RMBLF
6 au 8 novembre 2013 à Toulouse (Université de Toulouse 2 – Le Mirail)
Maison de la Recherche (MSHS-T), 
salle D29
 
L’année 2013 commémore les 1600 ans de l’arrivée des Wisigoths dans la Gaule du Sud-Ouest. À cette occasion, l’association française d’archéologie mérovingienne (AFAM) organise à Toulouse, ancienne capitale du royaume des Goths en Gaule, les 34e journées internationales d’archéologie mérovingienne. Les journées se tiendront du 6 au 8 novembre 2013 à la Maison de la Recherche de l’université Toulouse – Le Mirail. Elles rassemblent les contributions d’une trentaine de chercheurs européens organisées en cinq sessions thématiques.
Programme

Mercredi 6 novembre 2013

08h30 : Accueil et inscription des participants
Ouverture des journées
09h30 : Discours
10h00 : Introduction : Les sources écrites du Royaume goth d’Aquitaine (M. Rouche)

Première session : Histoires des Goths, entre Gaule et Espagne 

10h30 : Historiographie des recherches sur les Goths (S. E. Cleary – Univ. Birmingham) 

11h00 : Los Godos en Hispania en el siglo V : las fuentes escritas / L’histoire des Goths en Espagne au Ve s. : l’apport des sources écrites (L.-A. García Moreno – Univ. Alcalà de Henares) 

11h30 : Autour du Bréviaire d’Alaric (M. Rouche – Univ. Paris 4) 

12h00 : Le droit wisigothique au Ve s. (A. Dubreucq – Univ. Lyon 3)

12h30 : Pause déjeuner libre

Deuxième session : Toulouse, résidence royale des Goths 

14h00 : Le bâtiment de Larrey : palatium royal ? (R. de Filippo – Inrap) 

14h30 : L’église Saint-Pierre des Cuisines au Ve s. (Q. Cazes – Univ. Toulouse 2) 

15h00 : Les fouilles du site de l’Ecole d’économie : un bâtiment du Ve s. (J. Catalo – Inrap)

15h30 : Pause 
15h45 : Le domaine funéraire (D. Paya – Inrap) 
16h15 : Synthèse : Que sait-on de Toulouse gothe ? (J.-L. Boudartchouk – Inrap)
16h45 : Fin de la première journée / Assemblée Générale de l’AFAM
19h00 : Visite du musée du Saint-Raymond de Toulouse

Jeudi 7 novembre 2013

08h30 : Accueil

Troisième session : Archéologie funéraire de l’Aquitaine et de l’Espagne wisigothiques 

9h00 : Le site de Blanzac-Porcheresse (Charente) (Cl. Mitton, S. Djouad – Hadès, A. Corrochano – Landarc) 

9h30 : Le site de Saint-Laurent-des-Hommes (Dordogne) (Ch. Scuiller, J. Hernandez – Inrap) 

10h00 : Le site du Mouraut au Vernet (Haute-Garonne) (D. Paya, J. Hernandez – Inrap) 

10h30 : Le site de Pezens (Aude) (J.-P. Cazes – Membre TRACES)

11h00 : Pause 
11h15 : Les mobiliers funéraires des cimetières catalans et le cas d’Estagel (J. Pinar Gil – Univ. Barcelona) 
11h45 : Les cimetières du centre-ouest de la péninsule ibérique (Ve-VIe s.) (J. Lopez Quiroga – Univ. Madrid) 
12h15 : Les cimetières du Pays basque et de la Navarre (M. Pozo, J. J. Larrea – Univ. País Vasco)
12h45 : Pause déjeuner libre

Quatrième session : Territoires, pouvoirs et culture matérielle 

14h15 : Habitats de época visigoda’ en la région de Madrid / Habitats d’époque wisigothique dans la région de Madrid / (A. Vigil-Escalera Guirado – Univ. País Vasco) 

14h45 : Mutations des espaces politiques de l’Aquitaine et de l’Espagne entre Ve s. et VIe s. (E. Boube – Univ. Toulouse 2) 

15h15 : Géopolitique de l’entité gothe des Gaules (J.-L. Boudartchouk – Inrap) 

15h45 : La frontière lauragaise (J.-P. Cazes – Membre TRACES)

16h15 : Pause 
16h30 : Les petites fibules germaniques orientales du Ve siècle en Gaule du sud(M. Kazanski – CNRS Paris)
17h00 : Les parures wisigothiques d’Espagne (Y. Gourgoury) 
17h30 : Le mobilier de type wisigoth et méditerranéen dans le sud-est de l’Angleterre (J. Soulat – Doct. Univ. Paris 1)
18h00 : Fin de la deuxième journée
18h15 : RDV et départ en autocar à 18h30 pour la sortie à Mazères (trajet : 1h)
19h30 : Visite de l’exposition “Barbares en Gaule du Sud” au Musée Ardouin de Mazères
20h30 : Buffet dans la Salle des Fêtes de Mazères
22h30 : Départ en autocar pour Toulouse centre-ville (trajet : 1h)

Vendredi 8 novembre 2013

09h00 : Accueil

Cinquième session : Actualités archéologiques 

9h30 : L’influence byzantine sur les objets wisigothiques dans la collection du British Museum de Londres (B. Ager – British Museum of London) 

10h00 : Made in India : des perles en verre provenant d’Asie du Sud en Gaule mérovingienne (C. Pion – Doct. Univ. Libre de Bruxelles, B. Gratuze – CNRS Orléans, et al.) 

10h30 : La fouille du site des Sablons à Luxé (Charente) (M. Maury, N. Crépeau – Archéosphère) 

11h00 : La réoccupation funéraire d’une villa en Lot-et-Garonne : le site fouille programmée du site de Saint-Martin de Bruch (I. Cartron – Univ. Bordeaux 3, D. Castex – CNRS, Bordeaux) 

11h30 : Les sépultures de la fin de l’Antiquité d’Angers (L. Briceno, M. Guillon, I. Souquet – Inrap)

12h00 : Discussions
12h10 : Pause
12h30 : Conclusions (L. Verslype)
13h00 : Clôture des journées
Hors session : Posters
Informations, inscriptions et soumission de posters hors session : http://afam-2013-toulouse.e-monsite.com/
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Appel à contributions – Letters et Letter writing. Signed, sealed, delivered

Publié le 26 juillet 2013 par RMBLF
Tuesday 18th March – Thursday 20th March 2014
Prague, Czech Republic

The letter has been one of the most important forms of communication over thousands of years across many cultures and continents. Whether personal, professional or an open statement of intent it can covey the most intimate messages or declare the most inflammatory of declarations. It can be delivered by hand, by postman, by pigeon, by bottle, by smartphone, by internet connection or even by space ship. It can be cherished, collected, published, censored, blogged, stolen, steamed open, torn up, buried, displayed. It can be written on paper, papyrus, skin, in the sand, in wax, on sweet wrappers and on computer screens. It can be written with quills, pens, keyboards, chalk and in ink, in blood, in lemon juice, in light, with love, with hate, with desperation, with pride, with humiliation and with satisfaction. Correspondingly, it can take seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks or even years to reach its destination, whether sent to someone in the next room, or via a time capsule to people 50 years in the future. A letter is not just the means to communicate to others, but a way in which we communicate who, what and where we are and the times that we live in, consequently, being as much about the interconnectedness of identity, place and culture through time as it is about the immediate connection to those around us.
A striking example of such interconnectedness and entanglement survives from ancient Rome in the Letters to Atticus of Marcus Tullius Cicero written between 68-44 BCE. Originally hand written on papyri using a reed pen, they were delivered using a network of slaves often taking up to 4 weeks to reach their destination. Intended only to be read by his friend, this private correspondence was published by an unknown editor sometime after Cicero’s death and enjoyed as a literary work. Now available as both book and hypertext, its rich contents provide valuable information on many aspects of Roman life, not to mention the history of his times.

This timely consideration of the forms, materials and methods used to connect to ourselves and to others in and through time invites abstracts on the following themes for any historical period or geographical location: 
  • The beginnings (archaeology and early human writings) 
  • The death of the letter (and its reincarnation through technology, email) 
  • Role in important events (private, public, real, imagined or literary) 
  • Cultural significance of 
  • As diary 
  • As historical source 
  • As literature or within a literary work 
  • As biography 
  • As art or visual significance of 
  • The physical form (baked clay, waxed wooden tablets, parchment) 
  • The writing materials (reed pen, quill, ink, biro, typewriter) 
  • Contents of letters (love, politics, friendship, business, philosophy, consolation) 
  • Forms of delivery (couriers, private or public postal services) 
  • Intended readers (individual, family, group) and confidentiality issues 
  • Letters lost and letters found 
  • Letters as texts or texts as letters 
  • Published versus unpublished 
  • Handwriting and letter writing conventions: construction, syntax, language, spelling and symbols 
  • Letter-writers: male and female 
  • Authorship: anonymity or identity statement 
  • Queering the letter? 
  • Weaponising the letter? 
  • Intercepted or “leaked” letters 
  • The future of letter writing 
What to Send ?
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 11th October 2013. All submissions are minimally double blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 17th January 2014. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 key words.
Emails should be entitled: Letters1 Abstract Submission
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Linda McGuire: ue.nojidcse@eriugcm.adnil
Rob Fisher : ten.yranilpicsid-retni@1srettel

The conference is part of the At the Interface programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.

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Publication – J. Shatzmiller, "Cultural Exchange: Jews, Christians, and Art in the Medieval Marketplace"

Publié le 25 juillet 2013 par RMBLF
Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture. Joseph Shatzmiller focuses on communities in northern Europe, Iberia, and other Mediterranean societies where Jews and Christians coexisted for centuries, and he synthesizes the most current research to describe the daily encounters that enabled both societies to appreciate common artistic values.

Detailing the transmission of cultural sensibilities in the medieval money market and the world of Jewish money lenders, this book examines objects pawned by peasants and humble citizens, sacred relics exchanged by the clergy as security for loans, and aesthetic goods given up by the Christian well-to-do who required financial assistance. The work also explores frescoes and decorations likely painted by non-Jews in medieval and early modern Jewish homes located in Germanic lands, and the ways in which Jews hired Christian artists and craftsmen to decorate Hebrew prayer books and create liturgical objects. Conversely, Christians frequently hired Jewish craftsmen to produce liturgical objects used in Christian churches.

With rich archival documentation, Cultural Exchange sheds light on the social and economic history of the creation of Jewish and Christian art, and expands the general understanding of cultural exchange in brand-new ways.

Joseph Shatzmiller is the Smart Family Professor of Judaic Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Shylock Reconsidered and Jews, Medicine, and Medieval Society.
Table of Contents:
Part 1 Pawnbrokers: Agents of Cultural Transmission
Chapter 1 Financial Activities in the Medieval Marketplace
Chapter 2 Securities for Loans: Church Liturgical Objects
Chapter 3 High Finance: Urban and Princely Pledges
 
Part 2 Human Imagery in Medieval Ashkenaz
Chapter 4 The Decorated Home of the Rabbi of Zurich
Chapter 5 German Jews and Figurative Art: Appreciation and Reservation
 
Part 3 At the Marketplace: Professionals in the Service of the « Other »
Chapter 6 Christian Artists and Jewish Patronage
Chapter 7 Jewish Craftsmanship at the Service of the Church
 
Conclusions
Appendix Jewish Traditions and Ceremonies: How Original?
Select Bibliography
Index

Cloth | 2013 | $35.00 / £24.95 | ISBN: 9780691156996
202 pp. | 6 x 9 | 14 halftones. 2 line illus.
eBook | ISBN: 9781400846092
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Appel à contribution – Episcopus. Society for the study of bishops and secular clergy in the Middle Ages

Publié le 25 juillet 2013 par RMBLF
Event Date: May 8-11, 2014
Event Location: Kalamazoo, MI
Submission Deadline: September 15, 2013

Episcopus is pleased to sponsor three panels at next year’s International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, to be held :
1. Rethinking Reform I : The Portrayal of Religious Change in Gesta and Vitae Episcoporum and Abbatum (organized by Maureen Miller, UC Berkeley, and William North, Carleton College; please send an abstract and a Participant Information Form directly mcmiller@berkeley.edu and wnorth@carleton.edu.)

Research on reform in the eleventh and twelfth centuries has, for some time now, expressed dissatisfaction with our standard narratives of this period in ecclesiastical history. In attempting to formulate more compelling interpretations, the Rethinking Reform panels at the 2012 and 2013 Congresses have identified the need to focus closely on the medieval vocabulary (corrigere, emendare, rinnovare, repristinare, etc.) often interpreted as “reform” and the varied purposes for which it is used. Building on the productive discussions sparked by our 2013 sessions on narratives of reform in individual sources (Textual Perspectives), we invite proposals for 2014 focused on the language and narratives of religious change found specifically in the genres of episcopal vitae or gestae episcoporum or abbatum. When and how does language denoting correction, emendation, renovation, or reform appear in these genres? What tropes of rebirth, improvement, or return to ancient ideals recur, and what actions and qualities are characterized or associated with such rhetoric? To what ends or purposes is such language deployed: why are discourses of reform invoked? Comparisons of examples within one genre or between the two are welcome, as are papers considering change and continuity across a wide chronology.


2. Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Diocese of Lincoln, ca. 1209-1521 (co-sponsored with The Bishop’s Eye Research Network, Universities of Lincoln and Huddersfield, UK)

The diocese of Lincoln was not only the largest in England — spread over eight counties — but an ongoing focal point of ecclesiastical change in administrative, spiritual, and political development in the country. This session will trace some of these developments across three hundred years in the diocese, bringing together scholars from North America and the UK, under the auspices of both Episcopus and The Bishop’s Eye, a UK research network based at the Universities of Huddersfield and Lincoln devoted to the medieval diocese of Lincoln and the relationship of masculinity and religion. Participation by members of The Bishop’s Eye research group is expected. The session will encourage papers which not only focus on particular clergy and clerical communities, but also situate them in broader political, cultural, gendered, and/or economic contexts.


3. Milestones and Watersheds in the Scholarship and Study of the Medieval Church and Secular Clergy from the Nineteenth Century to the Present.

The study of medieval bishops and the secular clergy has undergone tremendous development and refinement over the last century. At the same time, much research still remains to be done on all aspects of church history (Van Engen, 2002). How have our views evolved and changed over time? What works and/or scholars have been instrumental in pushing the field in different directions, and why? Where do we go from here? This panel invites papers that explore specific historiographical milestones, catalysts, and watersheds in the field of medieval church history (with a focus on the secular clergy), their legacy, and the past and present implications for scholarship. Historiographical contributions from non-anglophone scholarly traditions are warmly encouraged.

These sessions are listed in the PDF that contains the full ICMS CFP.

Paper proposals are due September 15, 2013. Please send an abstract and a Participant Information Form to ott@pdx.edu unless otherwise directed in the session listing.

Source de l’information : Episcopus
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Appel à communications – Cathedral Libraries and Archives of Britain and Ireland

Publié le 24 juillet 2013 par RMBLF
University of York, July 3 – 05, 2014
Conference hosted by the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York, in association with the York Manuscripts Conference and the Cathedral Libraries and Archives Network. Organised by Brian Cummings, Linne Mooney, Bill Sherman and Hanna Vorholt.
The York Manuscripts Conference has been held biennially or triennially since 1986 and, with about 50 papers, is amongst the largest conferences in Europe dedicated to manuscript studies. The Thirteenth York Manuscripts Conference, to be held from 3-5 July 2014 will have as its topic the Cathedral Libraries and Archives of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
The Cathedral Libraries and Archives of Britain and Ireland comprise some of the most remarkable and least explored collections of medieval and early modern books. While predictably focused on theological, liturgical, and devotional texts, they also contain many medical, scientific, and literary sources, as well as legal and administrative documents. In addition to the many collections that are still in situ, others are now being looked after elsewhere, or have been dispersed.
 
The conference will include papers on medieval and early modern materials which are or were once held by the cathedrals of Britain and Ireland, considering their varied contents, illumination, use, and provenance; paper topics might also explore the formation, development, and dissolution of the libraries themselves; connections between different collections; their location and cataloguing within the cathedrals; or the distinction between cathedral libraries and cathedral archives in a historical perspective. Papers which shed light on lesser known treasures and collections will be especially welcome. We invite papers from researchers in the fields of religion, history, art history, musicology, history of science, literature, codicology, conservation, and other cognate disciplines. Papers delivered at the conference may be considered for inclusion in a volume of selected essays.
The conference is organised in association with the Cathedrals Libraries and Archives Network, a newly created group which seeks to engender, co-ordinate, facilitate and promote research on the Cathedral collections, and to act as an interface between academic communities, church bodies, and the wider public.
Plenary lectures will be given by Nigel Morgan (Cambridge), Christopher Norton (York), Rodney Thomson (Tasmania), and Magnus Williamson (Newcastle).
Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words to YMC-2014@york.ac.uk. Deadline for submission of proposals is 15 August 2013.
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Publication – David Kusman, "Usuriers publics et banquiers du Prince. Le rôle économique des financiers piémontais dans les villes du duché de Brabant (XIIIe-XIVe siècle)"

Publié le 24 juillet 2013 par RMBLF
Cette étude s’attache à reconstituer les stratégies commerciales et les réseaux sociaux des financiers piémontais grâce auxquels ceux-ci jouèrent un rôle de premier plan dans l’économie et la politique du duché de Brabant.
Entre le dernier quart du XIIIe siècle et le premier tiers du XIVe siècle, les banquiers piémontais installés dans le duché de Brabant constituèrent la communauté la plus importante des Lombards actifs dans les anciens Pays-Bas. Banquiers du Prince, ils prêtaient également aux élites urbaines et à la noblesse. Cette étude s’attache à reconstituer les stratégies commerciales et les réseaux sociaux des financiers piémontais grâce auxquels ceux-ci jouèrent un rôle de premier plan dans l’économie et la politique du duché de Brabant. En s’interrogeant sur les modalités d’intégration des Piémontais dans les villes brabançonnes, l’étude a finalement pour ambition de dépasser l’image caricaturale du Lombard, souvent identifié à un usurier public.
David Kusman, docteur en histoire médiévale de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, est chercheur associé à l’Unité de Recherche en histoire rurale et urbaine (U.L.B.) et au PAI VII/26 « City and Society in the Low Countries (1200-1850).
Informations pratiques :
David Kusman, Usuriers publics et banquiers du Prince. Le rôle économique des financiers piémontais dans les villes du duché de Brabant (XIIIe-XIVe siècle), Turnhout, Brepols, 2013 (Studies in European Urban History, 28). XVIII+467 p., 178 x 254 mm, 2013ISBN: 978-2-503-52925-7. Prix : 110, 00 euros.
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