In light of the global turmoil caused by the COVID-19 epidemic, the 14th AnnuaI Imago conference will examine the cultural and artistic impact of epidemics, diseases and healing in the art of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. We hope this examination will not only shed new light on the artistic, social, and political mechanisms of both of these periods, but will also produce fresh insights into cultural and artistic responses to the current global health crisis.
Disease is an inevitable part of the human experience. Whether in times of acute crisis, the most familiar of which is the Black Death of the mid-14th century, or as a constant threat at all other times, diseases evoked varied responses, from theological formulations to the transmission of medicinal knowledge; and, not least, to artistic depictions.
We invite papers from broad and diverse points of view: case studies of iconographies dealing with disease or healings, studies of the artistic responses to specific epidemics, and comparative studies between East and West, the Christian and the Islamic worlds, etc. Interdisciplinary studies and those engaging with the production, reception, and interpretation of art concerned with disease and healing are of particular interest.
Suggest topics may include, but are not limited to:
Artistic expressions of medicinal practices
Visual components in medical manuscripts
Artistic responses to the Black Death and other epidemics
Physical and spiritual health – Medieval and Early Modern expressions
Diseases and otherness – xenophobic, racist, and anti-Semitic polemical visual expressions
Disease and healing between East and West – artistic expressions
Disease – theological and moral conceptions
Gendered aspects of disease and healing
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent to Dr. Gil Fishhof (gfishhof@staff.haifa.ac.il) no later than September 1st 2020.
Fabio Coden (professeur Université de Vérone), Épigraphes et dynamiques historico-artistiques dans la région vénitienne (XI-XIIe siècles) : Johannes Vidorensis et son fils Arpo, évêque de Feltre, entre achats de reliques et fondations de sanctuaires
The most gifted Flemish court painter is the subject of today’s podcast. Was van Eyck a manuscript illuminator as well as a painter? The answer rests within the Turin-Milan Hours. Host Sandra Hindman sits down with two leading scholars working on van Eyck; Dominique Vanwijnsberghe and Lieve de Kesel.
Online conference « Diagrams in Science, Science in Diagrams: 1300–1700 » June 14–18, 2021 (online)
In modern scientific publications, readers will often encounter diagrams providing a visual account of some complex concept or theory. This visual tool, the diagram, has a long, yet ill-understood history in premodern science. While some fields of knowledge, e.g. geometry and astronomy, have used diagrams from its very start, other disciplines of medieval and early modern science (such as medicine and alchemy) adopted this tool of presentation and reasoning at a later stage. This conference seeks to address and compare the development and use of diagrams in all strands of premodern scientific knowledge between approx. 1300 and 1700. This time period is chosen specifically to be able to study the material and medial side of diagrams, and to understand whether and how the introduction of the printing press to the Western World impacted the production, use, and availability of diagrams. Print was restricting the options, since for example, colour was harder to produce, diagrams were not always printed directly next to the related text, and the preparation of woodblocks and copper plates requested other skills than drawing them. At the same time diagrams (like texts, and other visual tools) became wider spread through print. Did this have an impact on the use of diagrams in the various scientific “disciplines” of premodern science? How strongly was diagrammatic thinking part of scientific practice on paper? We believe that we need to study the history of the diagram as part of the “scientific toolbox”, against the backdrop of broader scientific, technological and social developments, to understand more about the use, function, and epistemic value of images in premodern science in general.
This conference aims at doing so by tracing the emergences and the disruptions of traditions of diagrams in all fields of scientific theory and practice, e.g. (but not restricted to) geometry, astronomy, medicine, philosophy, alchemy, law, theology, and music.
We ask contributors to focus on a limited set of diagrams of one tradition or field and to address, among others, questions such as the following:
1. Do the diagrams under investigation come from a precise tradition or do they form the foundation of such a tradition? 2. What is the scientific/disciplinary context of the diagrams under investigation and how do they relate to it? 3. What is the aim of the diagrams under investigation (illustration, explanation, demonstration, etc.)? 4. How does the medium carrying diagrams under investigation impact their form and role (print, manuscript)? 5. What are the most intriguing visual/graphical features to be found in the diagrams under investigation? 6. How do the diagrams under investigation interact with the text and which vocabulary is used to refer to the diagrams? 7. What justifies the diagrams under investigation to be labelled as ‘diagrams’ (and not ‘tables’, ‘maps’, etc.) and what is a reasonable demarcation line here? 8. How do the diagrams under investigation relate to scientific practices (experiments, taking measures, etc.)?
The conference will take place on June 14–18, 2021, entirely online, in two 90-minute sessions per day. Presentations will be based on pre-circulated papers, which will then be prepared for publication. To participate as a speaker, please send the following documents to sander@biblhertz.itby September 15, 2020:
• a title • a 300-word abstract • a short CV, including full name, affiliation and email address
Confirmed speakers: Kathleen Crowther, University of Oklahoma Christoph Lüthy, Radboud University Nijmegen Benjamin Wardhaugh, University of Oxford
Conference organized by the Max Planck Research Group Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions: Sietske Fransen, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History Christoph Sander, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History
For the first time, Sophie Harwood uses the Old French tradition as a lens through which to examine women and warfare from the 12th to the 14th centuries. The result is a skilled analysis of gender roles in the medieval era, and a heightened awareness of how important literary texts are to our understanding of the historical period in which they circulated.
Medieval Women and War examines both the text and illustrations of over 30 Old French manuscripts to highlight the ways in many of the texts differ from their traditionally assumed (usually classical) sources. Structured around five pivotal female types – women cited as causes for violence, women as victims of violence, women as ancillaries to warriors, women as warriors themselves, and women as political influences – this important book unpicks gendered boundaries to shed new light on the social, political and military structures of warfare as well as adding nuance to current debates on womanhood in the middle ages.
Table des matières :
List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on the Text List of Abbreviations and Sigils
Introduction Reading Texts through the Manuscript Tradition, 1150 – 1400 Women as Reasons for War Women as Victims of War Women as Ancillaries in War Women as Warriors in War Women as Diplomats in War Conclusion
Appendix 1. Catalogue of Manuscripts Appendix 2. Manuscript Illustrations of Women Bibliography Index
Informations pratiques :
Sophie Harwood, Medieval Women and War Female Roles in the Old French Tradition, Bloomsbury, 2020. 234 x 156 mm. 232 p., 30 ill. ISBN : 9781788315197. Prix : 76,5 £.
King John ruled England for seventeen and a half years, yet his entire reign is usually reduced to one image: of the villainous monarch outmanoeuvred by rebellious barons into agreeing to Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215. Ever since, John has come to be seen as an archetypal tyrant. But how evil was he?
In this perceptive short account, Nicholas Vincent unpicks John’s life through his deeds and his personality. The youngest of four brothers, overlooked and given a distinctly unroyal name, John seemed doomed to failure. As king, he was reputedly cruel and treacherous, pursuing his own interests at the expense of his country, losing the continental empire bequeathed to him by his father Henry and his brother Richard and eventually plunging England into civil war. Only his lordship of Ireland showed some success. Yet, as this fascinating biography asks, were his crimes necessarily greater than those of his ancestors – or was he judged more harshly because, ultimately, he failed as a warlord?
Informations pratiques :
Nicholas Vincent, John. An Evil King?, Penguin Books, Londres, 2020. 144 p. ISBN : 9780141977690. Prix : 14,99 £.
Travel along routes crossing the Sahara Desert to a time when West African gold fueled expansive trade and drove the movement of people, culture, and religious beliefs. Caravans of Gold is the first major exhibition addressing the scope of Saharan trade and the shared history of West Africa, the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe from the eighth to sixteenth centuries. Weaving stories about interconnected histories, the exhibition showcases the objects and ideas that connected at the crossroads of the medieval Sahara and celebrates West Africa’s historic and underrecognized global significance.
La réflexion sur ce qui sépare l’état de paix et l’état de guerre conditionne l’histoire de la diplomatie dans la mesure même où, dans l’histoire politique de l’Ancien Régime, la gestion efficace et immédiate des conflits armés – ouverts, programmés ou potentiels – constitue une exigence majeure du bon gouvernement des communautés. À côté du fracas des armes, avant ou après lui mais aussi pendant, se développent continument des pratiques de communication et d’échange dont le but premier est de dessiner le cadre possible des relations correctes entre communautés, quels que soient les forces, les jeux d’échelle, les territoires de référence et les horizons en présence. Ces pratiques sont particulièrement polymorphes et flexibles et, avant même de faire l’objet de traités et de donner un contenu au nouveau métier d’ambassadeur – à compter du XVIIe siècle surtout –, elles se construisent à tâtons selon des tempos, des coutumes, des discours, des écritures et des hiérarchies évolutifs. Ainsi est posée une autre façon de faire de la politique. Ainsi émerge, au fil de l’histoire que l’on peut en faire, un pan crucial de la régulation du système des États.
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Table des matières :
Jean-Louis FOURNEL Avant-propos. Entre la paix et la guerre, le travail de l’ambassade Remerciements
I PRATIQUES ET USAGES
Stéphane PEQUIGNOT Les « journaux d’ambassade » en Occident à la fin du Moyen Âge Óscar VILLARROEL GONZÁLEZ L’ambassadeur et sa charge en Castille au XVe siècle : renouvellement ou consolidation ? Bruno FIGLIUOLO La vita quotidiana dell’ambasciatore residente Joël BLANCHARD Héritages, glissements, créations : la diplomatie de Louis XI Hélène SOLDINI Les sous-ambassadeurs de la République florentine. Francesco Nasi au service de la délégation à Rome (automne 1529) Fiona LEJOSNE « Negotiare, servire, et tener secrete le cose negotiate, et scritte ». Le memoriale de Giovanni Carlo Scaramelli (1550-1608), secrétaire d’ambassade vénitien Francesco SENATORE Diplomazia dentro e fuori : le ambascerie della città di Capua (1504-1559) Juan Carlos D’AMICO « L’art de la diplomatie » : un métier à risque pendant les guerres d’Italie Bertrand HAAN Jeu diplomatique et lien amical au XVIe siècle Jean-Luc NARDONE L’étoffe des ambassadeurs : de l’art des présents diplomatiques à l’occasion du mariage (raté) entre le prince de Galles et l’Infante d’Espagne (1623) Fabrice MICALLEF Quel conseiller est l’ambassadeur ? Théories et réalités d’une pratique politique à la fin du XVIe siècle (France, Italie) Françoise JIMÉNEZ La justice royale face au corps diplomatique à Madrid au milieu du XVIIe siècle
II ÉCRITURES, LANGAGES ET PENSÉE POLITIQUE
Isabella LAZZARINI Discours diplomatique, discours politique. La création d’un langage nouveau dans les correspondances diplomatiques italiennes au XVe siècle Filippo DE VIVO Discorsi, cerimoniali, esposizioni : oralità e registrazione delle udienze diplomatiche in Italia tra Quattro e Seicento Elena BONORA Lettres chiffrées, langages métaphoriques et information politique dans l’Italie de Charles Quint Luca D’ONGHIA Note linguistiche e testuali sulle relazioni degli ambasciatori veneti (sec. XVI) Romain DESCENDRE « Fra e’ signori la fanno solo observare l’armi ». Diplomazia e politica estera in Machiavelli Raffaele RUGGIERO Baldassarre Castiglione a Londra, Blois e Madrid Dante FEDELE La « reconnaissance » dans le processus de constitution de l’État. Pour une revue critique du rapport entre diplomatie et souveraineté à la fin du Moyen Âge et au début de l’époque moderne Paolo CARTA et Dorota GREGOROWICZ Nunziature e politica nel ’500. L’istituto e i suoi aspetti critici
INDEX DES NOMS CITÉS
Informations pratiques :
Ambassades et ambassadeurs en Europe (XVe-XVIIe siècles) : pratiques, écritures, savoirs, éd. Jean-Louis Forunel, Matteo Residori, Genève, Droz, 2020 (Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance). ISBN : 978-2-600-06040-0. Prix : 49 euros.
Orietta Da Rold provides a detailed analysis of the coming of paper to medieval England, and its influence on the literary and non-literary culture of the period. Looking beyond book production, Da Rold maps out the uses of paper and explains the success of this technology in medieval culture, considering how people interacted with it and how it affected their lives. Offering a nuanced understanding of how affordance influenced societal choices, Paper in Medieval England draws on a multilingual array of sources to investigate how paper circulated, was written upon, and was deployed by people across medieval society, from kings to merchants, to bishops, to clerks and to poets, contributing to an understanding of how medieval paper changed communication and shaped modernity.
Dr Orietta Da Rold is Lecturer in Literature and Material Text, 1100 to 1500 at the University of Cambridge. She is the Co-Director (with Elaine Treharne) of the successful AHRC-funded project and e-book, English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220 and is currently editing the Cambridge Companion to British Manuscripts with Elaine Treharne.
Table des matières :
Paper and culture in medieval England: an introduction 1. Paper stories 2. The economics of paper 3. Writing on paper 4. The character of paper and its use in medieval books 5. Paper in the medieval literary imagination 6. Epilogue: the age of paper.
Informations pratiques :
Orietta Da Rold, Paper in Medieval England. From Pulp to Fictions, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020. ISBN : 9781108840576. Prix : 75 £.
Avec le soutien du FNRS, du CRHiDI (UCLouvain – Saint-Louis, Bruxelles), d'INCAL (UCLouvain), de PraME (UNamur), de sociAMM (ULB) et de Transitions (ULiège)
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