Tag Archives: Pre-Modern Europe
European History 1150-1550 Seminars @ IHR: 2017-2018 Programme
European History 1150-1550
Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House
Thursdays 17:30
Convenors: David Carpenter (KCL), Matthew Champion (Birkbeck), Johanna Dale (UCL), David d'Avray (UCL), Serena Ferente (KCL), Andrew Jotischky (RHUL), Patrick Lantschner (UCL), Cornelia Linde (German Historical Institute), Sophie Page (UCL), Eyal Poleg (QMUL), Miri Rubin (QMUL), John Sabapathy (UCL), Alex Sapoznik (KCL), Alice Taylor (KCL), Marie Legendre (SOAS)
Date Seminar details
17:30 Pretenders and returners: Dynastic imposters in the Middle Ages
Robert Bartlett (University of St Andrews)
IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR
17:30 Hunting at the court of King John of England
Hugh Thomas (Miami College of Arts and Sciences)
17:30 European History 1150-1550 2 paper event
Daisy Livingston (School of Oriental and African Studies), Martin Hall (Royal Holloway University of London)
17:30 Trust and authority: Pragmatic literacy and communication in the royal towns of medieval Hungary
Katalin Szende (Central European University)
18:00 The Creighton Lecture 2017. Strangers in Medieval Cities
Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London)
IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, NB01/NB02, Basement, IHR
17:30 The rise of administrative lordship in medieval Flanders: New perspectives
Jean-François Nieus (University of Namur)
17:30 Trustworthy men: How inequality and faith made the medieval church
Ian Forrest (University of Oxford)
17:30 Government and inquests from Philip Augustus to the last Capetians
Marie Dejoux (Pantheon-Sorbonne University Paris1)
Anaïs Waag (King's College London), Cecil Reid (Queen Mary University of London)
Room 243, Second Floor
17:30 Petrifying wealth: The southern European shift to masonry as collective investment in identity, c. 1050-1300
Ana María Rodríguez López (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
17:30 Observing Religion: High medieval religious movements and their polemical vocabularies
Sita Steckel (University of Münster)
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Bard Graduate Center: The Material Text in Pre-Modern and Early Modern Europe
Upcoming symposium at the Bard Graduate Center (BGC) that might be of interest, The Material Text in Pre-Modern and Early Modern Europe, to take place on March 5. This symposium will consider inscribed texts from antiquity to the modern period with the aim of articulating shared problems or issues related to materiality, legibility, and literacy and forging connections between readership in different cultures and contexts. In three sessions, scholars from the BGC, Columbia, NYU, Rutgers, and Brooklyn College will consider the problematic of the "speaking object," from Greek vases to early modern dinnerware, visual and conceptual reactions to pages and books, and the material and visual properties of inscriptions in the ancient, medieval, and early modern Mediterranean.
Please do join us in person in New York or watch the papers live via the BGC website (the video of the day will also be available on the website at a later date). Please find the program and instructions as to how to livestream the symposium at the BGC website: http://www.bgc.bard.edu/news/upcoming-events/symposium-material.html. To join the discussion remotely via twitter, either with questions or comments, you may use the twitter hashtag #bgctv.
This entry was posted in Upcoming Events and tagged Bard Graduate Center, Early Modern Europe, New York City, Pre-Modern Europe, texts, Twitter on February 20, 2014 by modonnellmorales.
Workshop: Precious Stones in Art and Nature
Precious Stones in Art and Nature from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Workshop at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, February 12 2014
Max Planck Research Group "Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe"
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Organized by Hannah Baader and Sean Nelson
Precious stones were a source of constant fascination for artists and
natural philosophers in pre-modern Europe. Diamonds, rubies, pearls and
other gems were both visually striking and rich in symbolism. They
served as subjects for painters, as raw materials for jewelers and
sculptors, as components in scientific instruments, and as stimuli for
reflection on the nature of light, colour, and the structure of matter.
Gems were hybrid objects par excellence, blurring the lines between
science and art, and between theory and practice. The talks in this
workshop, given by Sven Dupré and his research group, illustrate this
hybridity with examples drawn from England, France, Italy, and the
Netherlands. The subject matter addressed ranges from the fifteenth to
the eighteenth century, from astronomy to electricity, and from baroque
miniature painting to rococo furniture.
Hannah Baader, Welcome and Introduction
Sven Dupré, Introduction-MPIWG Research Group "Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern
Moderation: Hannah Baader
Marjolijn Bol, Gems in the Water of Eden: Traveling the Rivers of Paradise in Early
Netherlandish Painting and Natural Philosophy
Karin Leonhard, Painted Gems: Portrait Miniature Painting and Baroque Colour Theory
Moderation: Sean Nelson
Sven Dupré, Galileo's Glass: Light in the Heavens, Precious Stones on Earth
Michael Bycroft, The Physics of Furniture: Science and the Rococo in the Gemmological
Research of Charles Dufay
This entry was posted in Upcoming Events and tagged Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Max-Planck-Institut, Pre-Modern Europe, precious stones on January 25, 2014 by mariaalessiarossi.
Call for Papers: Culture, Power and Identity in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean
The Mediterranean Seminar is seeking proposals for panels on "Culture, Power and Identity in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean," organized by Brian Catlos [Religious Studies CU Boulder/Humanities UC Santa Cruz] and Sergio La Porta (Armenian Studies, CSU Fresno) to be submitted for consideration for the annual meeting of the American Historical Association to be held January 2-5, 2015 in New York City.
Mediterranean Studies represents an approach that is transforming our view of the history of Pre-Modern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East by taking an inter-disciplinary and comparative approach to the history of the Medieval West (ie.: the area west of the Indus), by "provincializing" Europe, eschewing grand teleological narratives, and by interrogating essentializing categories that have dominated historical analysis when deployed uncritically and universally (e.g.: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Europe, Byzantium, the Near East…).
We are seeking proposals that focus on the intersection of culture, power and religious and ethnic identity, on communal relations, and/or on processes of acculturation, translatio, and conflict in the broader Mediterranean.
In principle we will propose two panels: "Ideals" and "Action" — the former focusing on the ideology of pre-Modern identity politics and its expression, and the latter on the outcomes of policy and practice in this regard.
Papers focusing on social, political and economic history are welcome, but we are particularly interested in papers that are interdisciplinary in nature and/or that focus on art history, musicology, architecture, philosophy, history of science and medicine, the construction of class and/or gender identity, material culture or literature, and/or that focus on traditionally understudied groups (e.g.: Berbers, Copts, Armenians) and/or that combine approaches or take a chronologically or regionally comparative approach.
Please submit a proposals for 20-minute papers to be presented in person to Brian Catlos (bcatlos@ucsc.edu) and Sergio La Porta (slaporta@csufresno.edu) on or before Thursday, February 6 for consideration. Include a 150-200 word abstract and a 2-page CV, and indicate whether you will need to request AV equipment, and put "AHA Proposal" in the subject line.
This entry was posted in Call for Papers and tagged mediterranean, Mediterranean Studies, Pre-Modern Europe on January 23, 2014 by mariaalessiarossi.