Het ERC-project CaPANES (Causal Pattern Analysis of Economic Sovereignty) is op zoek naar een postdoctoraal onderzoeker en twee promovendi. Het project onderzoekt de economische soevereiniteit van handelssteden in de periode ca. 1400 - ca. 1620. Deadline voor sollicitaties: 4 november.
Mmmonk and Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies (UGent) will host the second edition of Mmmonk school in the autumn of 2023. Mmmonk School offers lessons for advanced beginners about the medieval book. It is an interdisciplinary practice-focused programme about medieval Flemish manuscripts. Six experts introduce the main concepts, skills and methods of their given field of expertise. The lessons are online, free and open for everyone. Join us on three consecutive Fridays (4-6pm CET) in November and December!
On the 7th and 8th of November, Radboud University and Utrecht University are jointly organising a masterclass for (Re)MA students and PhD candidates on the life and times of those lay people dependent on monasteries.
Op 2 december 2023 vindt in de Sint-Pietersabdij te Gent het symposium 'Materiële cultuur in religieuze instellingen' plaats. Dit symposium wordt georganiseerd door de Contactgroep Signum in samenwerking met het Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies van de Universiteit Gent.
The volume Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (c. 1450–1600), edited by Anna Dlabačová (Leiden University), Andrea van Leerdam (Utrecht University), and John Thompson (Queen’s University, Belfast), explores approaches to study vernacular books and reading practices across Europe in the 15th-16th centuries. Through a shared focus on the material book as an interface between producers and users, the contributors investigate how book producers conceived of their target audiences and how these vernacular books were designed and used. The volume brings contributions on different regions, languages, and book types into dialogue.
Op 16 november en 6 december vinden in respectievelijk Gent en Amsterdam boeklanceringen plaats van het publieksboek "Middeleeuwse Medemensen. De clichés over de donkere eeuwen voorbij". In dit boek buigen tien jonge mediëvisten uit Nederland en Vlaanderen zich over enkele hardnekkige mythes over de Middeleeuwen.
Voor het project ‘Professionals and the People’ zoekt Tilburg University een gepromoveerde historicus of historica met passie voor archiefonderzoek. De postdoc zal onderzoek doen naar de bestuurscultuur en het functioneren van stedelijke ambtenaren in de Nederlanden op het snijvlak van late middeleeuwen en vroegmoderne tijd. Deadline voor sollicitaties: 23 oktober.
Religious Studies at the University of Amsterdam organises a postgraduate seminar on current issues in religious studies and western esotericism. You can find the programme for the year 2023-2024 below.
On 28 September, the Medieval Murder Maps website will be shared publicly for the first time. The makers have used fourteenth-century coroners' rolls to map the homicides in three medieval towns: London, York, and Oxford. These digital maps are interactive and come with podcasts of interesting cases, narrated by a voiceover actor. Maps also include fatal incidents and allow people to filter the murders and incidents by gender, weekday, and weapon. The Map features descriptions of each of the cases, gleaned from original documents, have been translated into modern English.
The programme of the PASSIM conference (Rome, 17-20 October) has been announced. See below for more information.