Colloque – From Book to Field – from Field to Book. Entangled Theory and Practice in Dietetics and Agriculture (c. 1300–1600 CE)

31.03.2022 – 02.04.2022
Lorsch

Man-made climate change has recently led to intense debates on agriculture, food production and consumption. Industrial agriculture and livestock farming are criticised for contributing to global warming. Alternative approaches are developing and new forms of interaction between humans and nature are emerging. Simultaneously, modern technologies and media are substantially changing ways of accessing dietetic information and methods of acquiring food. This is not an unprecedented issue in human history. In the past, times of change have triggered profound transformation processes in economic practices and consumer behaviour.

Among other factors, climatic trends since the onset of the Little Ice Age (c. 1300), the Great Famine (1315–1317) or the Black Death (1347–1352) led to changing social conditions, which had an impact on agriculture as well as pomi- and viticulture. Through humanism and the media revolution of the 15th century, classical literature was translated into vernacular languages becoming more accessible to a broader group of recipients. Culinary customs and dietetics have therefore been the subject of German Medieval Studies in the recent past. Ancient knowledge about agronomy and dietetics was not only copied, but also supplemented with relevant information about weather-related requirements and growing phases of certain plants. Via the Columbian Exchange food from the New World (e.g. maize, peppers) was introduced in the Old World and added to specialist literature such as Leonhart Fuchs’ New Kreüterbuch (1543). Noble marriage alliances between families from different regions changed eating habits, which required new types of cultivation (e.g., asparagus). Due to their intellectual, economic and manorial capacities courts, cities and monasteries can be described as ‘sites of condensed knowledge’. Expertise was likely to be found at these sites and distributed from there. However, the relationship between traditional knowledge, early forms of empirical approaches and practical experience (e.g., local knowledge) needs to be discussed critically. Were these forms combined to something new or did certain forms of knowledge prevail and if so, under what conditions? We generally assume that new forms of interaction with the biophysical environment could have emerged, which can be understood as Socio-Natural Sites in the sense of the Viennese school of environmental history.

The conference would like to take a look behind these processes and interacting dynamics. The aim is to clarify questions of the appropriation and distribution of knowledge, and to discuss their effects on social change during the period of c. 1300–1600: To what extent did vernacular literature help to bring knowledge ‘from book to field’ (or vice versa) in particular and to what extent did new knowledge and new practices lead to transformations of ecosystems?

The conference will be held in Lorsch and simultaneously be streamed via Zoom. If you are interested in a digital participation, please contact Dr Stephan Ebert by 20 March 2022: ebert@pg.tu-darmstadt.de.

Programme :

Thursday, 31 March 2022

12 p.m. [CET] arrival
1 p.m. welcome

Section 1: Vom Buch aufs Feld I – Volkssprachen und der Einfluss neuer Medien / From Book to Field I – Vernacular Languages and the Influence of New Media
Chair: Jürgen Wolf (Marburg)

1:30 p.m.
Helmut W. Klug / Astrid Böhm (Graz): Kochrezeptsammlungen als Spiegel von Ernährungsgewohnheiten. Zum Erkenntnispotential einer Quellengattung
2:15 p.m.
Thomas Gloning (Giessen): Landwirtschaftliche Literatur in deutscher Sprache vom Mittelalter bis um ca. 1600

3 p.m. coffee break

3:30 p.m.
Christian Stadelmaier (Giessen): Verdichtungsorte von Wissen? Niederlassungen der Zisterzienser und ihr Umfeld mit Fokus auf das frühe 14. Jahrhundert
4:15 p.m.
Stefan Sonderegger (Zurich): Landwirtschaftliche Spezialisierungen in der südlichen Bodenseeregion im Spätmittelalter. Voraussetzungen, Akteure und Auswirkungen

6 p.m. keynote (in English)
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Vienna): New Crops for the New Rome? Tradition, Innovation and Dynamics of Agriculture in the Byzantine Empire and the (late) Medieval Eastern Mediterranean / Neue Früchte für das neue Rom? Tradition, Innovation und Dynamik der Landwirtschaft im Byzantinischen Reich und im (spät-)mittelalterlichen östlichen Mittelmeerraum

8 p.m. dinner

Friday, 1 April 2022

9 a.m. arrival

Section 2: Vom Buch aufs Feld II – Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Gartenbau in Theorie (und Praxis) / From Book to Field II – Dietetics, Agriculture and Horticulture in Theory (and Practice)
Chair: Volkhard Huth (Bensheim/Darmstadt)

9:15 a.m.
Dominic Olariu (Marburg): Botanik am Übergang von der Handschrift zum Druckwerk. Pflanzenillustrationen in Kräuterbüchern des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts
10:00 a.m.
Ansgar Schanbacher (Göttingen): Gärten und Ackerbau in religiösen Kontexten des 16. Jahrhunderts

10:45 a.m. coffee break

11 a.m.
Maximilian Schuh (Berlin): Grundherrschaft in Theorie und Praxis. Landnutzung und -verwaltung in der didaktischen Literatur zur Landwirtschaft in England zu Beginn des 14. Jahrhunderts
11:45 a.m.
Stephan F. Ebert (Darmstadt): Vom Buch aufs Feld? Zur praktischen Rezeption von ‚Fachliteratur‘ im deutschsprachigen Raum des ausgehenden Mittelalters

12:30 p.m. lunch

Section 3: Vom Feld ins Buch – Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Gartenbau in Praxis (und Theorie) / From Field to Book – Dietetics, Agriculture and Horticulture in Practice (and Theory)
Chair: Rainer Schreg (Bamberg)

2 p.m.
Julian Wiethold (Metz): Landwirtschaft, Weinbau und Ernährung im Spätmittelalter und zu Beginn der Frühen Neuzeit (1300–1600). Neue archäobotanische Ergebnisse aus Lothringen, Ostfrankreich
2:45 p.m.
Andreas Dix (Bamberg): Sonderkulturen als historisch-geographisches Problem – Das Fallbeispiel Bamberg seit dem Spätmittelalter

3:30 p.m. coffee break

4 p.m. excursion Freilichtlabor Lauresham / Laboratory for Experimental Archaeology

7 p.m. evening lecture (in German)
Gerrit J. Schenk (Darmstadt): Gartenbau und Sonderkulturen am Oberrhein. Vom Lorscher Arzneibuch bis zum Pfälzer Duwak / Horticulture and special crops on the Upper Rhine. From the Lorsch Pharmacopoeia to the Palatinate Duwak

8:30 p.m. dinner

Saturday, 2 April 2022

9 a.m. arrival

Section 4: Globale Perspektiven / Global Perspectives
Chair: Stefan Knost (Halle)

9:15 a.m.
Antonio Sánchez de Mora (Seville): Documents from Spanish Archives to Study the Changes in American Agriculture, Ecosystems and Food during the Early Modern Age
10 a.m.
Fabian Kümmeler (Vienna): Granoturco (Maize) and the Columbian Exchange. Agriculture, Pastoralism, and Society in Premodern Southeast Europe

10:45 coffee break

11 a.m.
Chun Xu (Berlin): Terraforming the Mongol-Yuan Metropole. Yu Ji and His Campaign for Riziculture in Littoral Metropole
11:45 a.m.
summary und final discussion

12:30 p.m. refreshment / snacks

End of conference

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Appel à contribution – CRUX TRIUMPHALIS – Calvaries and Rood Beams between the Middle Ages and the Council of Trent

Deadline : 31st March 2022

The 1st Colloquium on Art and Liturgy: CRUX TRIUMPHALIS. Calvaries and Rood Beams between the Middle Ages and the Council of Trent will take place in Cádiz during 13-15 October 2022.

We invite the academic community to submit abstracts in Spanish, English, Italian and French consisting of a 500-700 words summary highlighting the innovative nature of the paper together with the chosen session and a brief curriculum vitae before the 31st of March 2022 to the following address: crux.triumphalis@uca.es.

The organising committee shall acknowledge receipt of submissions and select those considered most closely aligned with the meeting objectives. The selection will be made public before the 15th of May. Following peer review, these papers will be published in a monograph. Texts should be sent by the 15th of November 2022.

During the Middle Ages and even the Early Modern period, the biggest eye-catcher for those who entered into a church was an image of Christ crucified, frequently flanked by the Virgin and Saint John, supported by a beam. This beam, located on the triumphal arch’s imposts, became -together with the altar steps- the element that pointed out the frontier between the space for the faithful and the one intended for the clergy. Due to its prominent position at the entrance of the presbytery, the crucifix became a focus for the faithful’s gaze. This image increased their spiritual involvement in liturgical celebrations, particularly during Mass, because they were persuaded through the transcendence of the mystery that occurred at the altar. That mystery, which was the miraculous and bloodless repetition of the Calvary’s sacrifice, also was the very same iconographical depiction that the faithful could distinguish at the top of the beam.
Like any other church furniture, the origin of the rood beams can be traced back into the early Middle Ages or even Late Antiquity through Archaeology and documentary evidence that go back to the patristic literature or the Liber Pontificalis. The High Medieval sources that mention these wooden structures and their calvaries are even more numerous, for instance, Sicard of Cremona or Guillaume Durand treatises, which not only had a significant impact but were also strongly connected with this kind of works.
It is still possible to locate many rood beams throughout Europe, showing their past abundance. However, the Hispanic reality is much different. Scarcity of preserved examples, together with the lack of academic interest in this topic, could lead to a false image of a past where these structures would have been irrelevant. Nevertheless, documentary evidence and sculptural remains permit us to reconstruct a different reality where the visual power of these beams would have decayed only at the end of the 15th Century, in parallel with the extraordinary development of the great altarpieces. The unprecedented growth of altarpieces in the Iberian Peninsula and the consequences of certain theological developments would became catalyst that provoked both the fall into disuse of rood beams and also their academic oblivion.
The aim of the first Expert meeting on Art and Liturgy, to be held in the University of Cádiz with a commitment to continuity, is to restore the memory of these singular pieces in its architectural, sculptural and pictorial dimension within the visual and functional context for which they were conceived. In order to provide a forum for debate on these issues, the Colloquium will count with renowned experts such as Teresa Laguna, Justing Kroesen or Eduardo Carrero, among others.

Session I. The Triumphal Cross in liturgical and historical sources. Study of patristic texts and medieval liturgical books, pastoral visits, other literary sources such as periegesis and chorography, as well as contractual and accounting documentary sources. In addition, graphic evidence of beams and calvaries: drawings, engravings, descriptive painting and historical photography.

Session II. Spanish Calvaries and Rood Beams in the European Context. Origins and typological relations with similar elements: screens, retrochoirs, jubé… Spatial configuration and formal development. Iberian world. Local particularities.

Session III. The decline of a typology. The emergence of the great altarpieces and the last beams. Disuse and dismantling of beams and calvaries. Functional, liturgical and maintenance issues involved in the disappearance process. Singular examples preserved: survival and revival.

Session IV. Image, piety and devotion. Devotional implications in the cult of medieval crucifixes and calvaries after their descent. Altars, altarpieces and chapels devoted to “Beam Christs”. Medieval prestige in the baroque context.

Source : Medieval Art Research

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Publication – « Cerner le passé. Mélanges en l’honneur de Patrick Hoffsummer », éd. Line Van Wersch, Sarah Cremer, Pascale Fraiture, Christophe Maggi, David Strivay, Muriel Van Ruymbeke, Armelle Weitz

Cerner le passé. Mélanges en l’honneur de Patrick Hoffsummer, éd. Line Van Wersch, Sarah Cremer, Pascale Fraiture, Christophe Maggi, David Strivay, Muriel Van Ruymbeke, Armelle Weitz, Liège, Atelier des Presses, 2021.

Contact pour la vente :
Emmanuel Delye, emmanuel.delye@uliege.be

Table des matières : ici

Le comité éditorial tient à remercier l’ensemble des auteurs ainsi que les relecteurs des différentes contributions. Il remercie aussi L’UR AAP et l’Université de Liège pour les financements reçus.

Les articles et leurs contenus restent sous la seule responsabilité des auteurs.

Université de Liège – Atelier des Presses Chemin des Amphithéâtres – Bât B7a 4000 Liège (Belgique)

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Publication – « Civic Identity and Civic Participation in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages », dir. Cédric Brélaz et Els Rose

This title will be available in Open Access via https://www.brepolsonline.net/series/celama-eb

During the Ancient Greek and Roman eras, participation in political communities at the local level, and assertion of belonging to these communities, were among the fundamental principles and values on which societies would rely. For that reason, citizenship and democracy are generally considered as concepts typical of the political experience of Classical Antiquity. These concepts of citizenship and democracy are often seen as inconsistent with the political, social, and ideological context of the late and post-Roman world. As a result, scholarship has largely overlooked participation in local political communities when it comes to the period between the disintegration of the Classical model of local citizenship in the later Roman Empire and the emergence of ‘pre-communal’ entities in Northern Italy from the ninth century onwards.

By reassessing the period c. 300-1000 CE through the concepts of civic identity and civic participation, this volume will reassess both the impact of Classical heritage with regard to civic identities in the political experiences of the late and post-Roman world, and the rephrasing of new forms of social and political partnership according to ethnic or religious criteria in the early Middle Ages. Starting from the earlier imperial background, the fourteen chapters examine the ways in which people shared identity and gave shape to their communal life, as well as the role played by the people in local government in the later Roman Empire, the Germanic kingdoms, Byzantium, the early Islamic world, and the early medieval West. By focusing on the post-Classical, late antique, and early medieval periods, this volume intends to be an innovative contribution to the general history of citizenship and democracy.

Cédric Brélaz is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Els Rose is Professor of Late and Medieval Latin at Utrecht University.

Table des matières :

Introduction — CÉDRIC BRÉLAZ, ELS ROSE

Part I. Local Communities, Citizenship, and Civic Participation in the Early Roman Empire (1st-3rd Century CE)

Local Citizenship and Civic Participation in the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire — CLIFFORD ANDO

Democracy, Citizenship(s), and ‘Patriotism’: Civic Practices and Discourses in the Greek Cities under Roman Rule — CÉDRIC BRÉLAZ

Part II. Local Identities, Civic Government, and Popular Participation in Late Antiquity

Civic Identity and Civic Participation in Constantinople — ANTHONY KALDELLIS

Social Status and Civic Participation in Early Byzantine Cities — AVSHALOM LANIADO

Informal Expressions of Popular Will in Late Roman Africa — JULIO CESAR MAGALHÃES DE OLIVEIRA

Urban Identities in Late Roman Italy — PIERFRANCESCO PORENA

Cities and Civic Identities in Late Roman and Visigothic Spain — MICHAEL KULIKOWSKI

Part III. Rephrasing Citizenship

Personal Identity in the Later Roman Empire — RALPH MATHISEN

A Relationship of Justice: Becoming the People in Late Antiquity — PETER VAN NUFFELEN

Reconfiguring Civic Identity and Civic Participation in a Christianizing World: The Case of Sixth-Century Arles — ELS ROSE

Legalizing Ethnicity: The Remaking of Citizenship in Post-Roman Gaul (6th-7th Centuries) — STEFAN ESDERS AND HELMUT REIMITZ

Part IV. Expressions of Civic Identity in the Early Middle Ages

Urban Populations in Early Islam: Self-Identification and Collective Representation — MATHIEU TILLIER

Urban Culture in the Early Medieval West: The Case of the Episcopal Towns in the German Kingdom — MARCO MOSTERT

Elites and Urban Communities in Early Medieval Italy: Identities, Political Initiatives, and Ways of (Self-) Representation — GIANMARCO DE ANGELIS

Citizenship and Contexts of Belonging: A Postscript — CLAUDIA RAPP

Index nominum

Index rerum

Informations pratiques :

Civic Identity and Civic Participation in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, dir. Cédric Brélaz et Els Rose, Turnhout, Brepols, 2022 (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 37). 447 p., 6 b/w ill., 3 b/w tables, 156 x 234 mm, 2021 ISBN: 978-2-503-59010-3. Prix : 120 euros.

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Publication – « Il bosco. Biodiversità, diritti e culture dal medioevo al nostro tempo », dir. Alessandra Dattero

Attraverso i secoli il bosco appare come una metafora del pianeta terra: è fonte di risorse apparentemente inesauribili per la vita delle specie animali e vegetali e l’azione dell’uomo ne ha profondamente modificato le caratteristiche.

Dai tempi più remoti ad oggi, il bosco ha avuto un’influenza sulla cultura e l’immaginario collettivo, ha favorito complesse organizzazioni sociali, con le loro normative, e intorno a esso sono fiorite elaborazioni letterarie e raffinate costruzioni linguistiche.

Questo libro indaga molti di questi aspetti, ma si pone anche nella prospettiva di restituire qualcosa: esplorare il bosco nel passato significa oggi cercare di offrire creativamente un contributo ad una sua rigenerazione nel tempo presente.

Table des matières :

  • Alessandra Dattero, Introduzione
  • Giovanni Maria Flick, La foresta e la città nel confronto-scontro tra ambiente e profitto
  • I. Nel bosco: uomini, comunità, territorio
    • Fabio Saggioro, Marco Marchesini, Silvia Marvelli, Per un’archeologia del bosco nel medioevo: elementi, dinamiche e processi
    • Katia Occhi, La ricchezza della natura: risorse forestali e scambi nelle Alpi orientali della prima età moderna
    • Andrea Savio, La rapida ascesa di due mercanti di legname nel Veneto del XVI secolo: Iseppo e Girolamo Forni
    • Koldo Trapaga Monchet, Las políticas forestales en los reinos de Castilla y Portugal (siglos XV-XVII)
    • Saverio Russo, Il pino da pece e il frassino da manna nel Gargano del XIX secolo
  • II. Norme e pratiche del bosco tra medioevo ed età contemporanea
    • Maria Gigliola di Renzo Villata, La legislazione bassomedievale nell’Italia centro-settentrionale e la “sfida” del bosco. Riflessioni sparse
    • Javier García Martín, El derecho comunitario al uso del bosque en Castilla en los siglos XVI-XVIII
    • Monica Chiantini, Emanuele Conte, Qualificazioni giuridiche dei beni collettivi. Una breve rassegna storica
    • Giacomo Demarchi, L’articolo 9 e il problema ambientale: spigolature storico-costituzionali
    • Maurizio Flick, L’evoluzione del bosco tra tutela, valorizzazione e fruizione
  • III. Saperi e linguaggi botanici
    • Angela Andreani, False “cacographees” and “correct” English names: the quest for perfect botanical naming in early modern England
    • Elisabetta Lonati, New plants & new names: botanical terminology in late modern English lexicography
    • Justin Begley, Stephen Hales (1677-1761) and the uses and abuses of plant-animal analogies
    • Agnese Visconti, Verso la costruzione del concetto di ecosistema. Lo studio dei boschi del botanico Filippo Parlatore
    • Carlo Blasi, Stato di conservazione e «Lista Rossa» dei sistemi forestali in Italia
  • IV. I boschi della bassa Lombardia: una ricerca interdisciplinare
    • Ilda Vagge, Le foreste di farnia e carpino bianco della pianura lombarda
    • Paolo Grillo, I boschi dell’abbazia di Morimondo nell’area del Ticino (XII-inizi XIII secolo)
    • Blythe Alice Raviola, La chimera. Boschi e acque nel Novarese di età moderna
    • Alessandra Dattero, Interessi, conflitti e politiche di governo nei boschi lombardi di pianura nell’età delle riforme: la comunità di Abbiategrasso
    • Stefania Salvi, Boschi, legna e legislazione austriaca in Lombardia (XVIII secolo): riflessioni storico-giuridiche
  • Indice dei nomi

Informations pratiques :

Il bosco. Biodiversità, diritti e culture dal medioevo al nostro tempo, dir. Alessandra Dattero, ROma, Viella, 2022 (I libri di Viella, 411). pp. 388, 15×21 cm, bross. ISBN: 9788833138367. € 35,00

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Séminaire – Actualité de la recherche archéologique

4 mars 2022, de 14h à 17h

Université de Caen, Campus 1, SH 027

Coord. : L. Bourgeois (Unicaen, Craham)

Programme :

Clarisse PARRA-PRIETO et Sophie PILLAULT (Unicaen, Craham), Le sanctuaire celto-romain de Baron-sur-Odon (Calvados)

Richard JONVEL (Unicaen, Craham), Les fouilles de la basse-cour du château de Boves en Picardie (Xe-XVIe siècle). Quelles relations avec le château à motte ?

Valentin MICLON (Unicaen, Craham), Alimentation, état sanitaire et statut social des populations médiévales dans le centre de la France. Approche archéo-anthropologique et paléobiochimique

Source : CRAHAM

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Séminaire – Représenter et nommer la Grèce et l’espace grec, du XIVe au XVIe siècle

Séminaire du projet ERC Advanced Grant AGRELITA 2021-2022, organisé par Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas.

Programme :

22 novembre 2021 (14-16 h, Université de Lille, Campus Pont de Bois : salle A2.703)
Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas (Université de Lille) : « L’espace grec dans la Bouquechardière de Jean de Courcy (1416-1422) : centralité et expansion »

14 décembre 2021 (14-17 h, Université de Lille, Campus Pont de Bois : salle A2.705)
Ilaria Molteni (Université de Lille) : « Représenter les grecs et l’espace grec entre France et Italie : le laboratoire de l’Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César »

Cléo Rager (Université de Lille) « Des lieux communs aux lieux de mémoire : les représentations de l’espace grec au prisme de l’Antiquité dans les récits de voyage et de pèlerinage en langue française de la fin du Moyen Âge »

31 janvier 2022 (14-17 h, Université de Lille, Campus Pont de Bois : salle A2.703)
Clarisse Évrard-Guilbert (Université de Lille) : « L’espace grec dans l’Histoire de Jason et le Recueil des histoires de Troie de Raoul Lefèvre : choix textuels et traductions visuelles »

Valeria Russo (Université de Lille) : « La Grèce mythologique et la Grèce historique dans la Fleur des Histoires de Jean Mansel : encyclopédisme et fiction des représentations géographiques »

25 avril 2022 (14h-17h30, MESHS, 2 Rue des Canonniers, Lille : salle 2) :
Gilles Grivaud (Université de Rouen) : « La Chorografia d’Etienne de Lusignan : sources et propositions »

Alice Colantuoni (Université de Florence) : « Imaginaires, toponymies : l’espace grec dans l’historiographie française de la quatrième croisade »

2 mai 2022 (14h-17h30, Sciences Po Lille, 9 Rue Auguste Angellier, Lille : salle 244)
Marie Jacob-Yapi (Université Rennes 2) : « “Ces Grecs, en 1500 ans voire plus, n’ont jamais changé leur manière de s’habiller” : le regard des Occidentaux sur le vêtement des Grecs anciens et modernes au XVe siècle »

Michele Campopiano (Université d’York) : « Un intermédiaire peu connu du monde antique : l’espace grec dans le Liber Guidonis et quelques observations sur sa fortune »

Clarisse Évrard-Guilbert (Université de Lille) : « Représenter la Grèce et les Grecs par le prisme flamand : le cas des enluminures des manuscrits français de la cour de Bourgogne »

9 mai 2022 (14h-17h30, MESHS, 2 Rue des Canonniers, Lille : salle 2) :
Daisy Delogu (Université de Chicago) : « Paysages palimpsestes : les espaces imaginaires grecs dans l’églogue du XIVe siècle »

Constantin Bobas (Université de Lille) : « En voyageant à Rhodes aux XVe et XVIe siècles. Imagination occidentale et réalité orientale d’un espace grec »

Valeria Russo (Université de Lille) : « Retrouver la Grèce dans le temps et dans l’espace : la Mer des histoires face à la création d’un passé antique »

13 juin 2022 (14h-17h30, MESHS, 2 Rue des Canonniers, Lille : salle 2)
Corinne Jouanno (Université de Caen Normandie) : « Quelle place pour la Grèce dans la littérature romanesque byzantine (XIIe-XVe s.) ? »

Ilaria Molteni (Université de Lille) : « L’espace grec à la cour de France (1364-1422): genres littéraires, projets d’édition, programmes d’illustration »

Cléo Rager (Université de Lille) : « L’espace grec dans les récits des voyageurs du XVIe siècle »

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Appel à contribution – 5th International Congress for Young Researchers in Middle Ages (ICYRMA)

On 10, 11 and 12 November 2022, the 5th International Congress for Young Researchers in Middle Ages (ICYRMA) will take place at the University of Évora, Portugal.


ICYRMA is destinated to students at master, doctoral and postdoctoral level and/or to those who have obtained their academic degrees in the last five years. It aims to be an interdisciplinary space for dissemination, discussion and contact among young researchers who study the Middle Ages from various perspectives: history, archeology, art history, literature, philosophy, philology, anthropology, ethnology, sociology, geography, methodology, among other areas.

In this 5th ICYRMA, the theme will be  » TIME and TEMPORALITY”.



Each proposal must fall within one of the following thematic strands:


1. The Remains of Time: archeology and material culture.

2. How does the passage of time influence our view of medieval building elements? Materials, uses and functions: from past to present.

3. New paths in the study of medieval subjects: the masters of yesterday and the apprentices of today. 

4. Legitimacy By Remembrance: individual and collective sociopolitical memory building.

 5. Time As A Strange land: historical awareness by medieval people. 

6. What Time Is It: mechanisms and strategies to measure and record time. 

7. Another ‘convivencia’: the overlap of different calendars and eras. 

8. Narrating the Flow of Time: testimonies of written culture. 

9. The Six Ages of Man: the human body as a vessel of time.

10. What to Come: the future conceived by the medieval mind. 


The call for papers will be open until April 30th.

– The working languages will be: Portuguese, Spanish, English and French.
– Each participant will have 15 minutes to do their presentation.
– Each proposal will be evaluated by two members of the Scientific Committee in a blind review process.
– The results of the selection will be announced until July 1st, 2022.
– Registration fee: 35€.


=>> TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL, PLEASE COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING FORM: https://forms.gle/i7NuFj1ZPpxD4CtB9

Source : ICYRMA

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Offre d’emploi – Vacature Postdoc (Gent) : « The Social Life of Early Netherlandish Painting »

In de context van het FWO Project « The Social Life of Early Netherlandish Painting » dat wordt geleid door Frederik Buylaert, Jan Dumolyn (beiden Vakgroep Geschiedenis) en Maximiliaan Martens (Vakgroep Kunst-, Muziek- en Theaterwetenschappen) is een driejarige postdoctorale onderzoekspositie beschikbaar. Het doel is een studie van het sociale profiel van opdrachtgevers van schilderijen. Dit project focust op de sociale netwerken die aan de basis lagen van de vroege Nederlandse schilderkunst tussen c. 1400 en c. 1550. Meer informatie kan je desgewenst bekomen via Frederik.Buylaert@ugent.be.

Source : UGent

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Publication – « Correspondance. Tome I. L’amour et l’exil. Introduction générale. Lettres I – IV / Epistolae I – IV », introd. et trad. par Benoît Grévin

La correspondance de Dante couvre ses années d’exil (1302-1321), qui le virent batailler contre les Florentins, soutenir l’aventure d’Henri VII, exiger le retour des papes à Rome et écrire la Comédie. Les treize lettres subsistantes ont été écrites dans un latin raffiné, rythmé et métaphorique.
Dans les lettres I-IV (1304-1309), Dante, homme de parti, proche des débuts de son exil, négocie le retour de Guelfes Blancs à Florence et chante la mort d’un protecteur tout en dissertant avec Cino da Pistoia et Moroello Malaspina sur la nature de l’amour. Les lettres V-VII (1311), sont portées par un souffle messianique. La venue d’Henri VII de Luxembourg est accueillie par le penseur de la Monarchie comme l’aube d’une ère nouvelle. Les Italiens sont invités à se tourner vers l’astre impérial, Florence maudite et vouée à la défaite, le souverain critiqué pour ses lenteurs. Dans les lettres VIII-X, un Dante au féminin se fait le secrétaire d’une comtesse s’adressant à la reine des Romains. Les lettres XII-XIII reflètent les pensées de la vieillesse. Dante y refuse un retour d’exil au prix d’une compromission, y stigmatise les errances de l’Église, y offre la Comédie achevée au seigneur de Vérone. Cette nouvelle édition en trois tomes propose à la fois une version nouvelle du texte des Lettres, une traduction et un commentaire qui guide le lecteur dans la pensée et le style du poète. Elles révèlent un Dante méconnu, brillant de son génie, mais enraciné dans la culture de son temps.

Ce premier volume de la correspondance de Dante Alighieri comprend trois parties. Une introduction générale fait le point sur les connaissances concernant les Lettres, suggérant leur place dans la vie de Dante et dans l’histoire de la rhétorique épistolaire. Elle détaille leur tradition manuscrite, leurs procédés de rédaction, leur rapport avec l’art rhétorique du XIIIe siècle, comme avec les tendances de l’humanisme naissant. L’édition-traduction (présentant une nouvelle version des textes) et le commentaire analysent ensuite les quatre lettres correspondant aux premières années d’exil de Dante (1302-1309). Les lettres I-II concernent le politicien, membre de la faction des Blancs florentins. Les lettres III et IV nous transportent dans l’atmosphère onirique d’une méditation sur l’amour.

Table des matières :

Préface

Conventions générales

Introduction générale

1. Les épaves d’un naufrage
2. La forme d’un dossier. La tradition manuscrite des lettres
3. Les lettres et le parcours de Dante, trois scansions
3.1 L’amour et l’exil (1302-1309)
3.2. Le songe impérial (1310-1313)
3.3. Le prophète et son œuvre (1314-1321)
4. Les lettres, reflets des pratiques d’écriture de leur temps : Dante au miroir de l’ars dictaminis.
4.1 L’obsession hiérarchique
4.2. L’arrière-plan de l’ars dictaminis
4.3. Au fondement de l’ars, le rythme
4.4 Au cœur de l’ars : la transposition métaphorique
4.5 Dante et le matériel des summae dictaminis. Influence ou comparaison ?
5. Un art en cours de transformation ? la pression du classicisme et l’interaction avec les langues romanes
5.1 Deux générations en transition (1265-1330), ou les conditions socio-stylistiques d’un renouvellement
5.2 Les marqueurs de classicisme
5.3 La question des rapports avec le vocabulaire des langues romanes
6. Dans l’attente d’un miracle : l’exégèse infinie

Lettres I – IV. Texte et traduction
Conventions éditoriales
Lettre I
Lettre II
Lettre III
Lettre IV

Commentaire
Commentaire à la lettre I
Introduction
Commentaire détaillé

Commentaire à la lettre II
Introduction
Commentaire détaillé

Commentaire à la lettre III
Introduction
Commentaire détaillé

Commentaire à la lettre IV
Introduction
Commentaire détaillé

Annexe. Discussion des choix de correction du texte présentant des variantes significatives par rapport aux précédentes éditions

Bibliographie
I. Sigles
II. Éditions des Lettres de Dante citées
III. Fac-similés de manuscrits contenant les lettres
IV. Éditions d’autres œuvres de Dante
V. Éditions d’autres sources antiques et médiévales
VI. Études

Index des noms propres
Index des œuvres

Informations pratiques :

Correspondance. Tome I. L’amour et l’exil. Introduction générale. Lettres I – IV / Epistolae I – IV », introd. et trad. par Benoît Grévin, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2022. CXCIV + 386 pages, 14.6 x 22.5 cm. ISBN : 9782251452456. Prix : 55 euros.

Source : Les Belles Lettres

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