L'Agenda des Médiévistes

7^th European Congress of Medieval Studies
06-09 September 2023
University of Basel Switzerland

Programme : ici

The 7th European Congress of Medieval Studies of the Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales (FIDEM) will be organized by the Department of Arts, Media, and Philosophy of the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Subject :

A book is first of all a book, with a physical appearance, a title, and a content. The content is perhaps the part that most of all determines the book’s impact. But also the title and the physical appearance have their share, and perhaps also other aspects, such as the reputation of the author, the period in which the book was written, and the reception it received. The impact of these latter aspects is more difficult to trace, but they may produce a recognized quality, an aura that materializes itself when books come together in a physical or imaginary room, when they have to compete for identification and differentiation. One such room is the medieval library with its ordered system of bookshelves and bookcases. Here, both content and aura guide the librarian when giving a call number to the book, when putting it together with other works in a convolute, or when naming it in the catalogue.

The Congress intends to focus on the interplay of content and aura of books in the Middle Ages and the way they are balanced and shaped through the work of medieval librarians. For example, when a medieval librarian in his catalogue calls all the volumes devoted to mysticism ‘opuscula’, not because of their small physical size, since some of them are huge, but because of their subject matter, which should make the reader humble. In this case, it is the common reputation of a devotional work that explains the decision of the librarian. More difficult to grasp, however, is what happens when the same librarian lists a devotional convolute not as usual under the title of the first work included, Thomas a Kempis’ Imitatio Christi, but of the third one contained, pseudo-Bonaventure’s Stimulus amoris. Or when he names Thomas a Kempis’ Imitatio Christi in that same volume the Liber Qui sequitur me, although the print bears the title De imitatione Christi. Clearly for him, there is something special about these titles which makes them more distinctive. But what is it?

The above examples are all taken from the catalogue of the Carthusian Library St. Margarethental in Basel, compiled about 1520 by George Carpentarius, who through his work as a librarian wanted to guide the monks, to illuminate their minds and to inflame their hearts. But many other cases from other medieval libraries and other fields of interest, such as medicine, law, history, philosophy, theology, and works of literature can help us understand how the different medieval librarians responded to the different auras of their books, how they enforced, changed or added to them. Besides the contents, how common and persistent are these reputations, how are they produced, what are the distinctive aspects, and is there a change from the early to the late Middle Ages?

These auras not only guided the medieval librarians when cataloguing and ordering content. They are still active today, when modern librarians or their algorithmic famuli produce networks that link medieval works through metadata, with the intention to serve the medievalists. Again an example from Basel: when searching for a specific manuscript, the digital catalogue of the University Library – which contains many books of the Carthusian Library St.Margarethental – produces a virtual bookshelf on which it puts the manuscript together with a number of volumes not searched for, some of which medieval, but others also modern. Obviously, here it is not the librarian, but an algorithm that does the work. What auras are effective here? How do they affect the minds and the research strategies of modern medievalists? Does this modern phenomenon help us understand the mechanisms of its medieval equivalent, or is there no such equivalent?

By way of plenary talks and discussion sessions, specialists from different fields of medieval studies will share with the audience their views about the special character of medieval books that transcends the immediate content and becomes visible most prominently in the special environment of the library with its catalogues, bookshelves and bookcases, and above all the active and reactive mind of the librarian.

Source : FIDEM

Du 19 au 23 septembre 2023
Brest, Université de Bretagne Occidentale

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L’association Danses macabres d’Europe (DME), qui a été créée en 1987, a pour objet l’étude des représentations de la mort dans l’art, la littérature et l’histoire depuis le Moyen Âge jusqu’à nos jours.

Les quatre derniers congrès de DME se sont tenus : à Turin (2014) organisé par l’Université de la ville, à Troyes (2016) co- organisé avec l’Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne et la Médiathèque du Grand Troyes, à Paris (2019) en partenariat avec l’Institut de France, la Bibliothèque Mazarine, la Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève et l’École du Louvre, à Bucarest (2021) par la faculté des Lettres de l’Université de la ville.

Le XXe Congrès international de DME, qui rassemble les communications d’universitaires, de conservateurs, bibliothécaires, chercheurs, étudiants et amateurs, donne l’occasion de découvrir les études les plus récentes sur un sujet qui marque la Bretagne. Il est gratuit et ouvert à tou(te)s sur inscription préalable.

Le XXe congrès est organisé par Danses macabres d’Europe (DME) et le Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique (CRBC) en partenariat avec la Direction régionale des affaires culturelles de Bretagne (DRAC Bretagne).

La conception du vivant qui prédomine en Occident se caractérise par une opposition ontologique entre l’homme et les autres animaux.

À partir d’approches plurielles (iconographiques, textuelles ou matérielles), cette journée prétend interroger l’une des dimensions inhérentes à cette vision, celle de la violence associée aux animaux.

L’objectif de la rencontre interdisciplinaire est ainsi d’explorer l’usage de l’animal en tant que symbole, objet ou instrument de la violence des hommes dans le monde hispanique médiéval et moderne. En étudiant les animaux, dans leurs réalités maté- rielles ou leurs représentations, à l’aune du concept de violence, la journée invite enfin à repenser leur place dans les sociétés du passé en accordant une importance aux continuités et aux ruptures.

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Informations pratiques :

6 juillet 2023

CASA DE VELÁZQUEZ
C/ Paul Guinard, 3 – 28040 – Madrid

COORD. : 

• Laura BALDACCHINO
  ^{EHEHI-Casa de Velázquez / UR 4083 (CLEA – Sorbonne Université), UMR 5648 (CIHAM – École normale supérieure de Lyon)}
• Philippe CASTEJÓN
  ^{EHEHI-Casa de Velázquez / ULR 4074 (CECILLE – Université de Lille)}
• Marthe CZERBAKOFF
  ^{EHEHI – Casa de Velázquez / UR 3656 (AMERIBER – Université Bordeaux Montaigne)}
   

ORG. : École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques (Casa de Velázquez, Madrid), UR 3656 (AMERIBER, Université Bordeaux Montaigne), ULR 4074 (CECILLE, Université de Lille), UR 4083 (CLEA, Sorbonne Université)

Source : Casa de Velázquez

The aim of our workshop is to discuss the historical moments in which mechanisms of religious, economic, social and political exclusion had a particular impact. With this research question, we are touching on the prominent research fields of otherness, race/racism, migration, national identities, etc. A lot of work has been done in all these fields of research in recent decades. Among other things, it has become clear that the variety of distinction mechanisms in the Middle Ages was very large (political, ethnic, social, religious and cultural). In all these fields, there was the potential for a process of « othering » to take place, and this could lead to exclusion, stigmatization and marginalization. However, our aim is to link the exclusion of individuals, groups and peoples with the concrete socio- economic contexts – in a more intensive way than has been done in the past. Thus, the intersections of ethnic/biological and social/economic discrimination will be examined in order to discuss the ways in which horizontal (ethnic) and vertical (social) categorizations interacted with, complemented, reinforced and contradicted each other, and how they reacted to socio-economic change. This is based on our conviction that it was, and still is, often socio-economic shifts that reinforce mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion. In our informal workshop, we will discuss and compare some case studies from various centuries and regions in medieval Europe.

Programme :

Thursday, Sept 28

17:00 Welcome and Introduction (Thomas Ertl and Milan Pajic)

17:30 Helmut Reimitz (Princeton):
The Danger of Binaries: the Study of Medieval Race and Ethnicity in Europe and the US

19:00 Dinner

Friday, Sept 29

Morning Session (Chair: Klaus Oschema)

09:00 Gerda Heydemann (Berlin):
The Curse of Ham: Race and Biblical Exegesis (Response Roy Flechner)

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30 Clara Almagro Vidal (Madrid):
Drawing Lines of Demarcation: Inclusion and Exclusion among Muslims under the Rule of Military Orders in Medieval Iberia (Response Jörn R. Christophersen)

11:30 Coffee Break

12:00 Nora Berend (Cambridge):
Triggers of Exclusion in Medieval Hungary (Response Julia Burkhardt)

13:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session (Chair: Roy Flechner)

15:00 Bart Lambert (Brussel) / Joshua Ravenhill (Independent Scholar):
Slander of Aliens in Late Medieval England (Response Tanja Skambraks)

16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 Cordelia Heß (Greifswald):
Meetings in the Margins. Constructions of Race and Religion in Greenland and Sápmi before 1550 (Response Christian Hoffarth)

17:30 Coffee Break

19:00 Dinner

Saturday, Sept 30

09:30 Jean-Frédéric Schaub on the History of Race and Racism: Round Table with Statements by Francisco Bethencourt, Thomas Ertl and Karl Ubl

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Final Discussion

Informations pratiques :

Veranstalter : Prof. Dr. Thomas Ertl, Dr. Milan Pajic (Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin)

Ausrichter : Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin

Veranstaltungsort : Holzlaube, Fabeckstr. 23-25, 2. OG, Room 2.2058

Gefördert durch : Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
PLZ
14195

Ort : Berlin

Land : Deutschland

Vom – Bis : 28.09.2023 – 30.09.2023

Source : H-Soz-Kult