International Virtual Conference
9–10 September 2021
Historical research has witnessed a rapidly growing interest in „networks“ since the turn of the twenty-first century. This is due not only to the utility of networks in describing interrelations between historical actors, but also to the adoption of the concepts and methodologies associated with social network analysis (SNA).
Communities and Networks in Late Medieval Europe aims to build on and contribute to this expanding field of research by exploring how the descriptive, conceptual, and methodological tools provided by the study of networks can deepen our understanding of the complex sets of relationships between and within different types of communities in the specific context of the last two centuries of the European Middle Ages. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were a time of great political, socio-economic, and cultural change in Europe: the period in question, therefore, offers numerous exciting opportunities (and challenges) for the application of network-based approaches to the study of community dynamics.
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Programme :
9 SEPTEMBER 2021
09:00–09:15 Welcome (Teresa Barucci and Matthew Coulter, University of Cambridge)
09:15–10:45 Session 1: Communities in the Making (Chair: Matthew Coulter)
Invited Speaker: Prof. Christina Lutter (University of Vienna), How Do Groups Become Communities? Urban Spaces of Belonging in Late Medieval Central Europe
Dr Joana Balsa de Pinho (University of Lisbon), A Community and Networking Experience in Late Medieval Portugal: Art and Material Culture of the Confraternities of Mercy
Dr Julien Le Mauff (Paris-Sorbonne University), Communitas perfecta and Regimes of Exclusion in Aristotelian Literature (13th–14th Centuries): The Growing Wariness towards Peregrins and Gens de mer
10:45–11:00 Break
11:00–12:30 Session 2: Networks of Strangers? (Chair: Dr Rodrigo García-Velasco, University of Cambridge)
Dr Monica White (University of Nottingham), Lands of Opportunity in the Medieval Orthodox World
Filip Vukuša (Bielefeld University), Networks of Newcomers from the Apennine Peninsula in 14th-Century Zadar
Guillermo López Juan (University of Valencia/University of Picardie – Jules Verne), A Close-Knitted Community: Interrelation, Integration and Assimilation of the Conversos of Valencia (1391–1440)
12:30–13:30 Lunch Break
13:30–15:00 Session 3: Travel and Trade Networks (Chair: Jessica Tearney-Pearce, University of Cambridge)
Invited Speaker: Dr Flávio Miranda (University of Porto), Caught in a Web: Merchant Communities and Commercial Networks between Portugal and Flanders, 1300–1500
Dr Prajakti Kalra (University of Cambridge), The Mongol Empire and the Making of European Communities in Eurasia
Annabel Hancock (University of Oxford), Networks of Trade: The Benefits and Challenges of Using Network Analysis to Explore Connections in Literature, Archaeology, and Commercial Contracts, c. 1150–1400
15:00–15:15 Break
15:15–17:15 Session 4: Economics, Finance, and Networks (Chair: Annabel Hancock)
Nicolò Zennaro (University of Antwerp; presenting author), Dr Jeroen Puttevils (University of Antwerp), and Prof. Francesco Guidi Bruscoli (University of Florence), Per chagione della Moria: A Social Network Analysis of an Epidemic Shock in the Datini Correspondence
Dr Julia Exarchos (RWTH Aachen University), The Networks of the Labouring Poor in the Late Medieval Rhineland
Aviya Doron (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Communities of Credit or Communities of Debt? Jewish-Christian Financial Networks in 14th-Century Frankfurt-am-Main
Angus Russell (University of Cambridge), Unjust Collection: Institutional and Monastic (Un-)Networks in Northern Rus
17:15–17:30 Break
17:30–19:00 Keynote Session (Introduction: Prof. Nora Berend, University of Cambridge)
Prof. Felicitas Schmieder (FernUniversität in Hagen), Did „Magdeburg Law“ Create a Network of Culturally-Mixed Urban Communities across Central Europe?
10 SEPTEMBER 2021
09:00–09:15 Welcome
09:15–10:45 Session 5: Urban Networks (Chair: Teresa Barucci)
Invited Speaker: Prof. Jan Dumolyn (Ghent University), Guild Politics in the Medieval Low Countries: Class, Communities and Networks
Dr Marios Dimitriadis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Drama as a Means of Networking for the World of Labour and a Field for the Debate on Social Hierarchy in Late Medieval English Towns
Ward Leloup (Free University of Brussels/Ghent University), „All Good Friends“? Economic and Social Relations of Leatherworkers in Late Medieval Bruges
10:45–11:00 Break
11:00–12:30 Session 6: Material Culture and Social Networks (Chair: Rebecca Field, University of Cambridge)
Dr Natalie Calder (Queen’s University Belfast) and Dr Hannah Schühle-Lewis (University of Kent), Theorising the Early Guildhall Library’s Social and Codicological Networks
Johanna-Pauline Thöne (University of Oslo), Late Medieval Music Manuscripts: Diachronic Testimonies to Musical and Cultural Networks, c. 1400
Róisín Donohoe (University of Cambridge), „To my Daughter“: Childbirth Networks in Late Medieval English Parish Communities
12:30–13:30 Lunch Break
13:30–15:30 Session 7: Mobility and Communication (Chair: Dr Luca Zenobi, University of Cambridge)
Invited Speaker: Dr Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz (University of Amsterdam), „Merchants“ Marks in Premodern Northern Europe: Communicating Networks
Chiara Melchionno (Scuola Superiore Meridionale of Naples), Qui nescit fingere nescit regnare: The Use of Paroemie in Italian Diplomatic Letters of the 15th Century and the Building of a Linguistic and Political Network
Dr Marco Ciocchetti (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Networks and Exchanges in the Cardinals’ College in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century
Dr Tamás Kiss (Eötvös Loránd University) and Dr Stephen Pow (St Petersburg State University), The Expansion of Social Networks in the Late Middle Ages from Samarkand to Castile: The Case Study of Two Medieval Women
15:30–15:45 Break
15:45–17:15 Session 8: Political and Dynastic Networks (Chair: Dr Vedran Sulovsky, University of Cambridge)
Dr Christa Birkel (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), The Foreign Prince and the Realm: On the Difficulty of Developing a Community in Late Medieval Luxembourg (c. 1380–1440)
Simon Bürcky (University of Giessen), Dynastic Networks of the Non-Princely High Nobility in the Holy Roman Empire during the 15th Century
Giovanni Contel (Sapienza University of Rome), The Italian Contribution to the „Imperial Community“ of Maximilian I during the First Italian Wars (c. 1490–1520)
17:15–17:30 Break
17:30–18:30 Concluding Session (Introduction: Prof. Jan Dumolyn)
Prof. Wim Blockmans (Leiden University), Concluding Remarks
All times in British Summer Time (BST)
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