How does the medieval body of texts known as 'canon law' reflect social and moral ideas? With a combination of AI and an advanced dataset, can we reveal patterns in the transmission and alteration of these ideas over time? Join the SOLEMNE project as a research assistant to explore these questions and more. Deadline for applications: August 22.
On Friday 20 September, the first Sector Plan Conference for the theme Cultural Heritage and Identity will be organised in Rotterdam. The conference is intended for all staff and national partners working in the field of Cultural Heritage and Identity. In particular, those involved in the Sector Plan theme Cultural Heritage and Identity are encouraged to participate.
The Research Training Group “Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War” invites scholars to submit paper proposals for a series of sessions on “Perceptions of Just War in the Middle Ages” at the IMC 2025. These sessions aim to explore the diverse theological, philosophical, legal, and cultural perspectives on Just War in medieval Europe and beyond, focusing on the distribution and evolution of associated knowledge traditions. Deadline: 8 September 2024.
Mmmonk en het Henri Pirenne Instituut voor Middeleeuwse Studies (UGent) organiseren eind 2024 de tweede editie van Mmmonk School: Lessen voor gevorderde beginners rond het middeleeuwse boek. Mmmonk School biedt een interdisciplinair praktijkgericht programma over middeleeuwse Vlaamse manuscripten. Experts geven een inleiding bij de belangrijkste concepten, methodes en vaardigheden uit hun discipline. De lessen zijn online, gratis, en open voor iedereen. Op 22 en 29 november vinden digitale lezingen plaats; op 6 december vindt een fysieke avondlezing plaats in Brugge.
Anna Dlabačová (Leiden) and Seán Vrieland (Copenhagen) are organizing a panel session on "Praying in the Vernacular" at the 2025 ICMS in Kalamazoo (May 8-10). If you are interested in joining this panel, you are invited to submit an abstract by September 15.
The programme for the conference "His verbis exprime luctum: Supports, style et usages de la poésie funéraire (IXe-XIIe siècles)" has been published. The conference takes place in Poitiers and Louvain from 26-29 November.
The deadline for the earlier announced Moving Humanities conference has been extended to August 12. See the original news message for the call for papers.
Els Rose heeft een eredoctoraat ontvangen van de Universiteit van Lausanne. Rose is hoogleraar laat- en middeleeuws Latijn aan de Universiteit Utrecht. De commissie prijst Rose voor “haar originele onderzoek, dat heeft bijgedragen aan ons begrip van de breedte en diepte van de receptie van middeleeuwse narratieve teksten en tradities in de liturgie van de Latijnse kerk en, in bredere zin, in de westerse cultuur.”
This volume, edited by Kay Boers, Becca Grose (University of St Andrews), Rebecca Usherwood (Trinity College Dublin) and Guy Walker (Trinity College Dublin), brings together eight essays by eminent scholars and early career researchers, reflecting on the phenomenon of erasure in Late Antiquity (c. 150 - 750 CE) and the various theoretical frameworks that can be used in studying this phenomenon. From a broad theoretical, chronological, and thematic focus, the contributions in this volume reflect on the processes of erasure and the strategies, actors and authorities behind them. They seek to understand erasure as a flexible and diverse phenomenon, visible in different late antique media and material cultures.
The Utrecht-based VIDI project Lettercraft in Early Medieval Europe, AD 481-751 is working on a new database of Merovingian epistolary communication. We are looking for enthusiastic (R)MA students who would like to join us this Fall as research apprentices for the first phase of data entry and analysis. Please see the attachment for more information. Are you interested or do you have questions? Please contact Robert Flierman at r.flierman[at]uu.nl
