L'Agenda des Médiévistes

The importance of the army in Roman political and social history is a well-known and widely studied matter. It is equally known the role of the army as a vehicle for ‘Romanization’ of the Empire’s provincial people. Less known is the impact that the organizational models carried by the army (administration, hierarchies, institutions, justice, fiscal revenue …) had on the rising Barbarian and Romano-Barbarian societies, which progressively replaced the great construction of the Western Empire during the centuries between the passage from Late Antiquity to Early Middle Ages.

Increasingly open to the recruitment of non-Roman manpower, for centuries the Imperial army was also the meeting place of different cultures. Continuously forced to adapt to different situations and environments, the Roman army had to develop multiple and innovative solutions that allowed it to keep Roman control over very large territories with diminished troops, thus using the effective use of force as little as possible. Sometimes Roman officers imposed on the occupied territories models from Latin tradition (the use of language and writing, ownership structures, the separation between administration and religion, etc.). In other cases, they realized that it would be more useful and effective to adapt solutions already used by the local populations (simplified negotiating practices, formalism, reliance on divine judgment, gift economy, military and paramilitary clientele). Very often the groups of barbarians that penetrated the borders dealt with these very models, and they eventually adopted them in the moment of settling within the Empire, replacing their model of governance with the Roman one. The great flexibility and adaptability of these solutions (that allowed them to continue for a long time and to spread across the early-European spaces) today represent the greatest reason of interest for this kind of investigation.

From this basis – analyzing the defining moment when the Antiquity was concluded and a new age begun, that in some ways still lasts – some scholars, who belong to different disciplinary experiences and to different countries, gathered for the first time in Cagliari in October 2012. Their perspective ranged from political, social and economic history to law, anthropology, religion and iconography. The purpose of that first meeting was to reconstruct the status quaestionis in different areas: the result is the volume Civitas, Iura, Arma. Organizzazioni militari, istituzioni giuridiche e strutture sociali all’origine dell’Europa (secc. III-VIII), F. Botta and L. Loschiavo (eds.), Il Grifo ed., Lecce 2015.

During the next spring, the group – in the meantime enriched with new specialists – will meet again to continue the research and to share knowledge. The conference, which will be held in Rome at the Department of Law of Roma Tre University, will pay close attention to cultural and specifically lexical aspects. Among the main purposes of the meeting, in fact, there is the one to avoid that the use of the same terms – which are recurrent along a temporal spectrum of various centuries and yet assume different meanings in different contexts – can generate confusion and misunderstanding among scholars from different disciplines, hindering (as in fact happened in the past) the necessary dialogue. At the center of many contributions there will also be the legal profiles with the greatest social impact: marriage, succession, personal status, personal bonds, dispute resolution.

Programme :

Thursday, 9th May – h. 15.00
Department of Law
via Ostiense 163 – Sala del Consiglio

Opening and welcome: Giovanni Serges (Director of the Department)

Chair: Stefano Gasparri (Venezia)

INTRODUCTION

Ian Wood (Leeds) – The transformation ofthe military in the Late Antique West

THE WORDS OF THE SOLDIERS

Elvira Migliario (Trento) – Significati di ‘foedus’ e ‘foedera’ in età imperiale
Pierfrancesco Porena (Roma) – ‘Hospitalitas’ Wolfgang Haubrichs (Saarland) – Il linguaggio della guerra presso i popoli germanici occidentali
Carla Falluomini (Perugia) – I Goti e i termini militareschi

Friday, 10th May – h. 9.00
Department of Humanities
via Ostiense, 234 – Sala della Presidenza

Chair: Walter Pohl (Wien)

RITUALS, RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, IDENTITY AND ICONOGRAPHIC MODELS

Jean-Pierre Poly (Paris Ouest-Nanterre) – Comptez, comptez vos hommes … Les unités de l’armée romaine à la fin de l’Empire (394-437)
Francesco Borri (Venezia) – Ibi omnis nobilitas periit Foroiulanorum. ‘Warband’ e ‘Traditionskern’ tra sale dell’idromele e accademia
Andrea Verardi (Roma) – Cingulum mili-tiae Esperanza Osaba García (Bilbao) – Acudir o non acudir a la llamada de las armas
Saverio Lomartire (Alessandria) – Il potere militare e il linguaggio delle immagini IV-VIII sec.

Friday, 10th May – h. 15.00
Department of Humanties
Via Ostiense, 234 – Sala della Presidenza

Chair: Wolfgang Haubrichs (Saarland)

SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND JURIDICAL MODELS

Andrea Trisciuoglio (Torino) – I limiti del munus hospitalitatis. Come conciliare esigenze socio- economiche e militari nel Tardoantico
Stefan Esders (Berlin) – About Castrum, centena, hundred
Stefano Gasparri (Venezia) – Fare, arimannie, arimanni: l’esercito longobardo fra mito e realtà
Francesco Castagnino (Milano) – Creare una famiglia. Il ius connubii e i figli dei soldati prima e dopo la caduta dell’impero
Iolanda Ruggiero (Roma) – Disporre dei beni dopo la morte. I privilegi dei militari in tema di successioni dalle costituzioni imperiali alle leges barbarorum

Saturday, 11th May – h. 9.00
via Ostiense 163 – Sala del Consiglio

Chair: Arnaldo Marcone (Roma)

GEOMETRIES OF THE POWER AND MILITARY JUSTICE

Valerio Marotta (Pavia) – ‘Civitas’ e ‘militia’ fra III e VI secolo
Luca Loschiavo (Teramo/Roma) – Ius speciale o personalità del diritto? Il diritto dei soldati e le legislazioni romano-barbariche
Soazick Kerneis (Paris Ouest-Nanterre) – La justice militaire des populations barbares de l’Empire. Les premières applications de l’ordalie
Fabio Botta (Cagliari) – La responsabilità solidale. La responsabilità penale in solido dal ‘contubernium’ alla faida tra clans
Walter Pohl (Wien) – Dall’esercito agli eserciti: cambi di ordinamento, cambi di identità?

Informations pratiques :

Rome
9-11 May 2019

Contact and information :
Luca Loschiavo (loschiavoluca@gmail.com) – Stefania Gialdroni (gialdronis@gmail.com)

Research in Medieval Studies at Ghent and Kent

On Thursday 25th of April 2019, the Ghent – Kent Research Alliance at the Henri Pirenne Institute organises an exchange day for research in medieval studies. The overarching theme of the day is ‘Cross-Channel Exchanges in the Middle Ages’.

This research day is an excellent opportunity for PhD students and staff in medieval studies from both universities to get to know one another. MA students are invited to join for the keynote or one or more of the panel sessions. Entrance is free.

Programme :

8:30 – 9:00: Coffee and walk-in
9:00 – 9:10: Welcome and intro by Ghent & Kent organisers (Steven Vanderputten & Ed Roberts)

9:10 – 9:50: PANEL I: Late medieval Flanders and England
Chair: Edward Roberts (Kent)

1) Milan Pajic (Cambridge / Ghent): Beer Brewers from the Low Countries in Late Medieval England and Transformation of the Brewing Industry
2) Noah Smith (Kent): A Flemish Frontispiece in Oxfordshire: Considering the provenance of the Oxford Chest
9:50 – 10:10: Chaired Q&A and discussion
10:10 – 10:20: Comfort break

10:20 – 11.00: PANEL II: Reconsidering episcopal and monastic mobility
Chair: Robert Gallagher (Kent)

1) Ed Roberts (Kent): Tenth-century bishops and the law in cross-channel perspective
2) Micol Long (Ghent): Monastic Transitus Between Theory and Practice
11.00 – 11:20: Chaired Q&A and discussion
11:20 – 11:30: Comfort break
11:30 – 12:30: KEYNOTE: Emily Guerry (Kent): Wall painting in Paris in the age of Saint Louis

Chair: Steven Vanderputten (Ghent)

12:30 – 12:45: Respondent to keynote: Anna Bergmans (Ghent, emeritus)
12:45 – 13:00: Questions of the audience
13:00 – 14:00: LUNCH (at venue)

14:00 – 14:40: PANEL III: Reform and literature in the early and central Middle Ages
Chair: Micol Long (Cambridge / Ghent)

1) Rob Gallagher (Kent): Latin Literary Culture in Southern England, c. 800 to 1000
2) Steven Vanderputten (Ghent): Tenth-century reforms and the problem of religious distinction in cross-channel perspective
14:40 – 15:00: Chaired Q&A and discussion
15:00 – 15:20: Comfort & coffee break

15:20 – 16:20: PANEL IV: Comparing late medieval institutional cultures
Chair: Milan Pajic (Ghent / Cambridge)

1) Johan Belaen (Ghent): A Two-Speed Religious Order? Comparing the Benedictine General Chapters in 13th-Century England and France
2) Philippa Mesiano (Kent): Papal Mediation in Thirteenth-Century Europe: Pope Alexander IV, King Henry III and the Treaty of Paris (1259)
3) Jack Newman (Kent): Signed, Sealed, Embezzled – Counterfeit Seals, Italian Merchants, and deception of the Crown

16:20 – 16:50: Chaired Q&A and discussion
16:50 – 17:00: Comfort break

17:00 – 17:40: PANEL V: Cross-channel iconography and landscapes
Chair: Emily Guerry (Kent)

1) Han Tame (Kent): The Majestas Domini as an International Iconography
2) Gerben Verbrugghe (Ghent): Little Flanders beyond Wales, Landscape archaeology of Flemish settlement landscapes in the British Isles

17:40 – 18:00: Chaired Q&A and discussion

18:00: NETWORK RECEPTION @ the UFo building: discussion of future plans for the Ghent – Kent international partnership (at UFo building, meet-up with Ghent University medievalists)

19:00: Dinner

Informations pratiques :

When : 25-04-2019 from 08:30 to 19:00
Where : Ghent, Campus Rozier-Plateau, Jozef Plateau Conference Room (Jozef Plateaustraat 22, 9000 Gent)
Language : English
Organizer : Stefan Meysman
Contact : Stefan.Meysman@UGent.be

Source : Universiteit Gent

Au-delà de quelques figures bien connues, l’identité et la personnalité des créateurs de la musique médiévale se laissent difficilement appréhender. La notion même de « compositeur » reste un concept malaisé à manier, en raison du faible nombre d’attributions dans les sources, de la documentation limitée sur ceux qui composaient la musique, et des modes même de composition, collectifs et ouverts, du Moyen Âge. De fait, notre approche de la musique médiévale s’est longtemps tenue à distance de la question des auteurs, et s’est de facto volontiers orientée vers l’étude des processus de création et pratiques d’interprétation, ou a favorisé des notions telles que le genre, le registre, les répertoires, etc. Le colloque propose de dresser un état des lieux et de revenir sur cette question à la lumière des travaux récents ; il invite à revisiter et élargir la notion de compositeur comme outil alternatif d’analyse et de compréhension des répertoires médiévaux.

Programme :

Jeudi 23 mai

9:00 Accueil et café des participants
9:40 Mot de bienvenue (organisateurs)

Introduction

9:50-10:20 Mark Everist (University of Southampton) Facere, componere, invenire : vivre en compositeur au Moyen Âge

Session 1 – Compositeurs comme groupes socio-culturels
Présidence : Étienne Anheim (EHESS)

10:20-11:00 Brianne Dolce (Yale University/Universiteit Gent) Who Composed in Medieval Arras? Prosopographical Possibilities in the Necrology of the Confraternity of Jongleurs and Bourgeois
11:00-11:20 Pause
11:20-12:00 Lori Kruckenberg (University of Oregon) ‘Compositio’ in the Hands of Cantrices: Two Case Studies on Musical Composition by Women Religious in Ottonian and Salian Germany
12:00-12:40 Mary Wolinski (Western Kentucky University) Philip the Chancellor, William of Auvergne, and the Preacher’s Art
12:40-14:00 Déjeuner

Session 2 – Compositeurs comme individus : créativité et inspiration
Présidence : Mark Everist (University of Southampton)

14:00-14:40 David Maw (Oriel College, Oxford) Individuating Dissonance: ‘Composerly’ Identity in Fourteenth-Century French Secular Music
14:40-15:20 Charles Brewer (Florida State University) Planctus ante nescia: Questions of Attribution and Inspiration
15:20-15:50 Marie-Geneviève Grossel (Université technologique des Hauts-de-France Valenciennes) Composition/compositeur chez les trouvères, le point de vue du philologue
15:50-16:10 Pause

Session 3 – Compositeurs en réseau : citation et auto-citation
Présidence : Yolanda Plumley (University of Exeter)

16:10-16:50 Catherine A. Bradley (University of Oslo) Adam de la Halle’s Intergeneric Self-Citations
16:50-17:30 Christopher Callahan (Illinois Wesleyan University) Les premiers manuscrits d’auteur comme témoignages du réseau poético-social
19:30 Dîner des conférenciers

Vendredi 24 mai

Session 4 – Compositeurs proclamés : attribution, autorité, auteurisation
Présidence : Anna Zayaruznaya (Yale University)

9:00-9:40 Manon Louviot (Universiteit Utrecht) Genre et autorialité dans le motet Ferre solet/Anatheos de gracia/Ave Maria (XIVe siècle)
9:40-10:20 Margaret Bent (All Souls College, Oxford) Paradox and Typology in Late-medieval Ascriptions and Attributions
10:20-11:00 Yolanda Plumley (University of Exeter) Composing Ars nova Chansons: Encounters between Poets, Composers and Minstrels
11:00-11:20 Pause

Session 5 – Compositeurs dévoilés : méthodes et outils d’identification
Présidence : David Maw (Oriel College, Oxford)

11:20-12:00 James Blasina (Swarthmore College) Composing Chant in Rouen: Ainard of Dives and the Ste-Catherine-du-Mont Office of St. Katherine of Alexandria
12:00-12:40 Karen Desmond (Brandeis University) A Single Compositional Hand in the Ob Rawl Fragments? William of Wicumbe and English Polyphonic Practice c. 1250
12:40-14:30 Déjeuner

Session 6 – Compositeurs cachés : remaniements, adaptations, additions
Présidence : Margaret Bent (All Souls College, Oxford)

14:30-15:10 Federico Zavanelli (University of Southampton) et Giacomo Ferraris (Università degli Studi di Pavia) Rewriting the Tradition: Multiple Transmission of Five Madrigals from the Rossi Codex
15:10-15:50 Joseph Mason (New College, University of Oxford) A Jeu-parti Problem? Multiple Melodies and their Composers at the Arras Puy
15:50-16:10 Pause

Session 7 – Compositeurs identifiés : nouvelles approches biographiques, historiographie
Présidence : Catherine A. Bradley (University of Oslo)

16:10-16:50 Anne Ibos-Augé (C.E.S.C.M. Poitiers) Du « Boscu d’Arras » à Adam de la Halle : la fabrique d’un compositeur
16:50-17:30 Anna Zayaruznaya (Yale University) On the Epochs of Music History and the Spans of Human Lives

Informations pratiques :

Université de Rouen
23 — 24 mai 2019

Comité scientifique
Étienne Anheim (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)
Catherine Bradley (University of Oslo)
Helen Deeming (Royal Holloway)
David Fiala (Université de Tours, CESR)
Elizabeth Lalou (Université de Rouen, GRHis)
Yolanda Plumley (University of Exeter)

Comité d’organisation
Anne-Zoé Rillon-Marne (Université catholique de l’Ouest, CESCM)
Gaël Saint-Cricq (Université de Rouen, GRHis)

Source : Compositeurs au Moyen Âge

Published : 28 Mar
Deadline : 11 Jun
Location : Utrecht

We are looking for two Postdoctoral Researchers in the research project ‘The Multilingual Dynamics of the Literary Culture of Medieval Flanders, ca 1200 – ca 1500’. These two positions are part of a research project funded by the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO). This four-year project seeks to correct the traditional, monolingual view on Flemish literature between ca 1200 and ca 1500. It is the first large-scale investigation devoted to the literary culture of medieval Flanders from a multilingual perspective. A full description of the project can be read here.

The project consists of three subprojects. Since December 1, 2018, a PhD candidate (4 years, 1.0 FTE) studies the literary dynamics resulting from the interaction between Middle Dutch and other languages in Flemish texts, Flemish multi-text manuscripts and booklists from medieval Flanders. From December 1, 2019, onwards, two Postdocs (each 3 years, 1.0 FTE) will carry out the remaining subprojects. Postdoc 1 will focus on Dutch, French and Latin texts that were written by authors in medieval Flanders and texts that were read in that region. Postdoc 2 will study manuscripts containing Dutch, French and Latin texts that scribes produced in medieval Flanders and the manuscripts that circulated in that region. In the deepening and synthesising stages of the project, the findings of the two Postdoc subprojects will be combined.

Tasks

Each of the two Postdocs will be asked to:

• set up a data collection of texts or manuscripts whose production and/or reception can be assigned to medieval Flanders;
• apply various theoretical perspectives to the dataset;
• write two international conference papers;
• contribute to the organization of the project’s final conference;
• co-author and co-edit the conference proceedings;
• contribute to teaching (f.e. tutorials for Research Master students);
• contribute to the exhibition that is part of the project;
• write a popularizing essay;
• deliver a public lecture.

Requirements

• You have completed a PhD in a field relevant to the project.
• You have a good research record.
• You have a working knowledge of medieval languages (French, Dutch, Latin).
• You have a working knowledge of medieval manuscripts.
• You have a working knowledge of modern English, French and German.
• You are able to work both independently and as part of a closely collaborating team.

Conditions of employment

We offer a two temporary positions (1.0 FTE each) for one year, starting on December 1, 2019. Upon good performance, the contract will be extended for another 24 months (36 months in total).

The gross salary – depending on previous qualifications and experience – ranges between €3,389 and €3,637 (scale 10 according to the Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities) gross per month for a full-time employment. Salaries are supplemented with a holiday bonus of 8 % and a year-end bonus of 8.3 % per year. We offer a pension scheme, (partly paid) parental leave, collective insurance schemes and flexible employment conditions (multiple choice model).
Employer

A better future for everyone. This ambition motivates our scientists in executing their leading research and inspiring teaching. At Utrecht University, the various disciplines collaborate intensively towards major societal themes. Our focus is on Dynamics of Youth, Institutions for Open Societies, Life Sciences and Sustainability.

The Faculty of Humanities has around 6,000 students and 900 staff members. It comprises four knowledge domains: Philosophy and Religious Studies, History and Art History, Media and Culture Studies, and Languages, Literature and Communication. With its research and education in these fields, the Faculty aims to contribute to a better understanding of the Netherlands and Europe in a rapidly changing social and cultural context. The enthusiastic and committed colleagues and the excellent amenities in the historical city center of Utrecht, where the Faculty is housed, contribute to an inspiring working environment.
Additional information

For additional information on the project, you may contact prof. dr Bart Besamusca (a.a.m.besamusca@uu.nl), dr André Bouwman (a.t.bouwman@library.leidenuniv.nl) or prof. dr Remco Sleiderink (remco.sleiderink@uantwerpen.be). For general information about the two Postdoc positions, please contact the ICON research coordinator Hanneke Jansen (h.m.jansen@uu.nl).

You will be based at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON) and the Department of Languages, Literature and Communication (TLC), under supervision of prof. dr Bart Besamusca.

Source : Academic Transfer