L'Agenda des Médiévistes

Pour des thèses françaises

L’Institut historique allemand de Paris (IHA), acteur central de la recherche à vocation internationale, assume une fonction de médiation entre la recherche historique allemande et française. Les recherches de l’IHA portent sur l’histoire française ou franco-allemande, sur l’histoire africaine et sur l’histoire numérique.

L’IHA offre un prix dont la valeur est égale à environ 2000 € pour permettre la publication en allemand des résultats d’une thèse française de haut niveau portant sur les domaines de recherche de l’Institut.

L’IHA prendra en charge les frais de traduction de l’article. L’auteur proposera ensuite l’article à la revue »Francia« ou un périodique allemand pertinent.

La candidature doit être accompagnée des documents suivants:

• un résumé de deux pages de la thèse décrivant le potentiel de l’article pour la recherche germanophone,
• un curriculum vitae,
• le manuscrit de la thèse soumise,
• le rapport de thèse ou les Gutachten.

La thèse doit avoir été présentée au cours des deux dernières années.

Un comité international d’historiens décidera de l’attribution du prix.

Les candidatures doivent être envoyées à l’adresse suivante: nmay@dhi-paris.fr.

La date limite de dépôt des candidatures est fixée au 15 mai 2021.

Vers l’appel à candidature

Vers l’appel à candidature pour les dissertations allemandes

Source : Institut historique allemand

• n°8—L’entomologie savante A envoyer avant le 01.10.2022 n°8—Scholarly entomology A envoyer avant le 01.10.2022
• n°7—Traductions de savoirs de type encyclopédique A envoyer avant le 01.10.2022 n°7— Translations of encyclopedic-type scientific texts A envoyer avant le 01.10.2022
• n°6 — Physiologus A envoyer avant le 01.05.2022 n°6 — Physiologus A envoyer avant le 01.05.2022

• n°5 — Encyclopédies mythographiques A envoyer avant le 01.10.2021 n°5 — Mythographical encyclopaedias A envoyer avant le 01.10.2021
• n°4 —Au-delà des encyclopédies canoniques : parents atypiques, enfants rares A envoyer avant le 01.05.2021 n°4 — Beyond standard encyclopedias : untypical models and original offspring A envoyer avant le 01.05.2021

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The era of COVID-19 has been transformational for medieval digital humanities. Medievalists have come to learn the limits and possibilities of online scholarship, whether in the virtual classroom or in the transfer of knowledge among specialists. Although direct access to material sources and the easy face-to-face exchanges with colleagues are deeply missed, we have come to understand that digitally-inflected scholarship can be more economical, more global, and –in limited ways– more equitable for many medievalists. And because we have come to this inflection point, members of the Digital Medievalist Board are launching a conference series that marks this turn and aims to build upon what we have learned. Our theme, The Past, Present and Future of Medieval Digital Studies is both retrospective and prospective in scope, bringing digital medievalist practitioners into conversation with each other as we step into a new scholarly environment where digital methods take on a new importance.

Our new global awareness has inspired us to plan three conference dates, each of which is aligned with a geographic space and accommodates scholars from three time zones grouped as The Americas, Asia & Oceania, and Europe & Africa.  The Americas conversation will take place on Monday, 24 May 2021, Asia & Oceania on Friday, June 11, and Europe & Africa on Monday, June 21. See individual panel dates for timing. 

Americas: Images and Imaging – Monday May 24, 2021

Preliminary Program of the Americas Part

For medievalists working in the Americas, increased access to high-quality images of manuscripts and other medieval resources has changed the way we work, whether we consider ourselves digital humanities scholars or not. The ready availability of these resources has opened new ways of thinking about practices that are fundamental to our field, such as textual editing, image description and analysis, or manuscript collation, for example. Yet the instantaneous access we now have to facsimiles of the materials that were previously so difficult or arduous to view masks the enormous amount of expertise needed to bring these images so effortlessly to our desktops. Librarians, curators, cataloguers and information technologists bring their skills and knowledge to the task of image delivery in ways that remain invisible to most subject-area specialists, but have become critical to the way most medievalists now work.

The goal of this conference is to reflect on how access to images — whether limited or open — has shaped how medievalists in the Americas have worked in the past and the present, as well as how they may do so in the future. Topics may include the following: a discussion of how resource professionals take material objects in a collection and create properly catalogued digital objects; IIIF, scanning, metadata, 3D-imaging, and 3D-printing; the relationship between image and material object and the implications for textual scholarship or pedagogy.

Organized by Nathan Daniels, Lisa Fagin Davis, James Harr III, Aylin Malcolm, and Laura Morreale.
Co-sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America

Sign-up for the Americas Event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_t3mJh3a8ShOlkgpngSRQfw

Asia & Oceania: Digital Transformations – Friday, June 11, 2021

Preliminary Program of the Asia & Oceania Part

Languages, Texts, Environments: Digital Transformations in our Past, Present and Future

The Asia and Oceania panel offers a fresh perspective for digital medievalists, since the Middle Ages and the scheme of historical periodisation that applies to Europe has little relevance to the historical timelines which unfolded in Asia and the region of Oceania. Spanning the eastern and western hemispheres, the nations of Asia and the islands of Oceania have divergent histories and encompass an incredibly diverse mix of cultures. This panel seeks to offer a small taste of activities undertaken in the sphere of scholarship broadly termed digital humanities, and to introduce new topics and questions to our Digital Medievalist audience.

Organized by Rose Faunce and Daniela Schulz.

Sign-up for the event here: https://forms.gle/R9s4Me8CyeVxuvCS6

Africa & Europe: Diving Into Sources – Monday, June 21, 2021

Preliminary Program of the Africa & Europe Part

For medievalists worldwide, digital media has fundamentally changed the way how we access our sources and work with them: digital editing, digital imaging, databases, text mining and visualisation are but some keywords that have gained relevance over the last decades and have influenced and inspired new research directions in the field. Other methodologies, such as Linked Open Data and Machine Learning, are emerging as key approaches for current and future research, driven by the huge amount of digital research data that is being produced by hundreds of medieval research projects every year.  

This conference is dedicated to reflecting on the past, present and future of medieval studies and its transformation thanks to these methodologies. When we think about the future, we should also be conscious of areas in medieval studies that have been underexplored and underappreciated by the field at large. Using a visionary perspective, the first panel will discuss developments in how medieval source data are represented, analysed and interpreted. The second panel focuses on Linked Open Data and its application to medieval studies. The final panel brings together scholars working with textual and material data from various manuscript traditions and cultures to discuss how DH methodologies impact on their research.

Organized by Roman Bleier, Hannah Busch, Els De Paermentier, Tessa Gengnagel, and Daniela Schulz.

Sign-up for the event here: https://forms.gle/R9s4Me8CyeVxuvCS6

Image detail from: Herzog August Bibliothek, 15 Astron. 2° (1s) rechts (http://diglib.hab.de?grafik=15-astron-2f-00023, CC BY-SA)

Source : Digital Medievalist

La revue Perspective : actualité en histoire de l’art consacrera son n° 2022 – 1 à la question du transport des objets et des œuvres d’art.

Si l’étude du transport de biens patrimoniaux a donné lieu à une littérature spécialisée conséquente et demeure un enjeu capital pour les institutions qui les préservent, une historiographie du développement et de la normalisation de ses pratiques reste à envisager. À l’inverse, l’histoire de l’art, dans laquelle les phénomènes de circulations et de transferts artistiques constituent un champ de recherche bien établi, délaisse trop souvent les aspects les plus pragmatiques de l’acheminement physique des objets.Outre son ancrage dans la vie matérielle des choses, la thématique du transport guide également vers une histoire alternative de la production artistique, comme le propose Jennifer L. Roberts dans son ouvrage Transporting Visions. The Movement of Images in Early America (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2014), en évoquant le cas d’artistes travaillant dans la pleine conscience des déplacements futurs de leurs œuvres.

Au croisement de ces problématiques professionnelles, techniques, scientifiques et méthodologiques, cette livraison entend mettre en perspective les manières dont les archéologues, les historiens de l’art, les conservateurs, et l’ensemble des chercheurs en sciences humaines, s’emparent de cette question du transport des objets et des œuvres d’art et en déploient les multiples et fécondes implications.

Les propositions devront s’inscrire dans la ligne éditoriale de la revue : sans jamais se limiter à de simples études de cas, les contributions veilleront à mettre en évidence des enjeux historiographiques précis et une réflexion sur la manière dont l’histoire de l’art, l’histoire du patrimoine et l’archéologie se saisissent de la notion de transport pour penser leurs méthodes et leurs cadres scientifiques.

Prière de faire parvenir vos propositions (un résumé de 2 000 à 3 000 signes, avec un titre provisoire, une bibliographie succincte sur le sujet, et une biographie de 2 ou 3 lignes) à l’adresse de la rédaction (revue-perspective@inha.fr) avant le 12 mai 2021. Les auteurs des articles retenus seront informés de la décision du comité au mois de juin 2021, tandis que les articles seront à remettre le 1er octobre 2021 pour une parution en juin 2022. Les articles soumis seront définitivement acceptés à l’issue d’un processus anonyme d’évaluation par les pairs.

Source : INHA

The precedent of empire and the promise of return lay at the heart of King Arthur’s appeal in the Middle Ages. Both ideas found fullness of expression in the twelfth century: monarchs and magnates sought to recreate an Arthurian golden age that was as wondrous as the biblical and classical worlds, but less remote. Arthurianism, the practice of invoking and emulating the legendary Arthur of post-Roman Britain, was thus an instance of medieval medievalism.

This book provides a comprehensive history of the first 150 years of Arthurianism, from its beginnings under Henry II of England to a highpoint under Edward I. It contends that the Plantagenet kings of England mockingly ascribed a literal understanding of the myth of King Arthur’s return to the Brittonic Celts whilst adopting for themselves a figurative and typological interpretation of the myth. A central figure in this work is Arthur of Brittany (1187-1203), who, for more than a generation, was the focus of Arthurian hopes and their disappointment.

CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL BERARD is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Providence College. He completed his PhD at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Medieval Studies.

Table des matières :

Introduction
Arthurianism during the reign of Henry II, 1154-1189
Arthurianism during the reign of Richard I, 1189-1199
Arthurianism during the reign of King John, 1199-1216
Arthurianism during the reign of Henry III, 1216-1272
Arthurianism during the reign of Edward I, 1272-1307
Conclusion
Bibliography

Informations pratiques :

Christopher Michael Berard, Arthurianism in Early Plantagenet England from Henry II to Edward I, Boydell&Brewer, 2021 (Arthurian Studies). 378 Pages, 23.4 x 15.6 cm, 1 line. Illustrations. ISBN : 9781783273744. Prix : GBP 60.

Source : Boydell&Brewer

This volume is an introduction to eleven of the main medieval Eastern Christian historians used by modern scholars to reconstruct the events and personalities of the crusading period in the Levant. Each of the chapters examines one historian and their work(s), and first contains an introductory examination of their life, background and influences. This is then followed by a study of their work(s) relevant to the Crusades, including the reasons for writing, themes, and methodology. Such an approach will allow modern researchers to better understand the background and contexts to these texts, and thus to reconstruct the past in a more nuanced and detailed way. Written by eleven eminent scholars in their fields, and examining chronicles written in Armenian, Greek, Syriac, and Arabic, this book will be essential reading for anybody engaged in research on the Crusades, as well as Eastern Christian and Islamic history, and medieval historiography.

Alex Mallett is Assistant Professor at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Tokyo

Table des matières :

Introduction – Alex Mallett

Greek Texts:
Anna Comnena – Jonathan Shepard
John Kinnamos – Chris Hobbs
Niketas Choniates – Alicia Simpson
George Akropolites – Ruth Macrides and Jeff Brubaker

Armenian Texts:
Matthew of Edessa – Tara Andrews
Smbat – Sergio La Porta

Syriac Texts:
Michael the Syrian – Dorothea Weltecke
Anonymous Chronicle to 1234 – Herman Teule
Bar Hebraeus – Marianna Mazzola

Copto-Arabic Texts:
Al-Makin Ibn al-Amid – Anne-Marie Eddé
History of the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church – Alex Mallett and Johannes Den Heijer

Index

Informations pratiques :

Franks and Crusades in Medieval Eastern Christian Historiography, éd. Alex Mallett, Turnhout, Brepols, 2021 (Outremer. Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East, 10). 351 p., 1 b/w ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN: 978-2-503-56581-1. Prix : 84 euros.

Source : Brepols