Medieval crisis CfP

The essays collected in this volume demonstrate that, when certain medieval and contemporary cultural texts are placed alongside each other, such as a fourteenth-century penitential handbook and the reality television show "Survivor," they reveal certain mentalities and social conditions that persist over long durations of time. Several of the essays address overtly political subjects, such as political torture and suicide terrorism, while other essays attend to the various ways in which certain “real-life” fictions and cultural entertainments have always overdetermined our understanding of history, our current moment, and ourselves.

Europe is a slim book, 143 pages of closely-reasoned argument distilled from research into primary and secondary sources listed in a further 45 pages of bibliography. Slim, but hardly slight; in fact, it is an astonishing achievement whose implications are both deep and wide-ranging. It should be required reading for all medievalists, as well as for all nonmedievalists whose disciplines are predicated (overtly or implicitly) on theories of "the modern"-disciplines which therefore have a vested interest in maintaining a myth of the Middle Ages as a single, static period that can either be marginalized and dismissed or pathologized and scrutinized as "other."

„Acta Ethnographica Hungarica”, 2019

The purpose of the study is to identify related philosophical and artistic parallels between time-honored epochs of the Middle Ages and the present, as well as defining the forms of interaction between these links. Research methods. The choice of research strategies in studying the peculiarities of the socio-cultural system of isolated periods determined the application of systemic and integrated approaches that ensured the establishment of valuable socio-cultural functional elements within the historical development of mankind. The use of comparative and heuristic methods of research contributed to the identification of structural models and symbols that ensured the integrity and systemicity of the evolution of culture. In this context, we also use the heuristic method of research, which promotes the modeling of structural relationships within the sociocultural development of society, and also reflects the social relations and cultural and artistic forms of cooperation of various civilization types. The use of these methods of research contributed to obtaining their own theoretical results. The scientific novelty of the results obtained is the formulation and development of an actual topic, which in the scientific dimension has not received comprehensive and objective coverage and is being investigated for the first time. The idea is based on the fact that the results of comprehension of ideological and artistic forms of interaction of the Middle Ages and modernity are an important factor in the formation of a coherent historical and cultural model of human development. The interpretation of medieval philosophical imperatives in the formation of valuable categories of the present is noted. Conclusions The development of the culture of mankind has demonstrated the presence of distinct ideological and artistic parallels in the distant periods of the Middle Ages and the present. It is noted that this similarity is due to the presence of internal mechanisms inspired by the ideological peculiarities of Christian society. It is stated that the results of comprehension of the connection of the mentioned epochs are an important factor in reflecting the social relations and cultural-artistic forms of the cooperation of various civilizational types. In this context, the historical and cultural model of human development acquires structural integrity and predictability in relation to the formation of valuable categories of the future.

CfP L'Apprendistato dello Storico 2020 ENG Disobeying in the Middle Ages, 2020

Call for Papers L'Apprendistato dello Storico 2020 "Disobeying in the Middle Ages". Tensions, repressions, pacifications, IV annual Seminar organized by PhD Students in Medieval History, will take place in Rome on 28th-29th may 2020 at the Dipartimento di Storia Antropologia Religioni Arte Spettacolo of Sapienza Università di Roma, relating to the scientific activities of PhD in Storia, Antropologia, Religioni. Curriculum vitae et studiorum Abstract Max 500 words and Max 10 titles between historical sources and bibliography Deadline proposals: 16 february 2020 Scientific Committee: Andrea Casalboni, Giovanni Collamati, Giovanni Contel, Davide Del Gusto, Francesco Riedi

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 2001

for their illuminating comments in discussion of parts of this paper. I have also benefited greatly from discussions with Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski about her recent work on prophets and visionaries during the Great Schism.         abiding concerns of all people with the drawing of boundaries around the holy, the gaining of access to the pure, and the distancing of self and loved ones from the polluted and the dangerous. When the institutions meant to promote and endorse sacramental promise and truth in teaching were beset by very public cracks-as they clearly were c.-some unusual voices of challenge penetrated through the fissures more clearly than before. Such voices of prophetic comment were both the product and the symptom of the state of indeterminacy in several spheres: the voices of Bridget of Sweden (-), of Catherine of Siena (-), and of the less well known Constance of Rabastens (d.), Marie Robine (d.) and Jeanne-Marie de Maillé (d.).  Schism in the church did not only cloud ecclesiastical theory and disrupt church bureaucracy, it had real consequences for households, polities, marriages, all of which depended on an intricate system of approval and endorsement related to the smooth handling of sacramental practice and ecclesiastical law and custom. For as the poet Guillaume of Salvarville wrote c. , false popes made false prelates, who in turn made false priests, whose sacramental efficacy in a whole area of essential activities was put into question.  This sense of disruption and danger became suddenly apparent to a wide range of layfolk. Constance of Rabastens's visions of - (which were recorded in Occitan by her confessor Raymond of Sabanac and survive in a Catalan version) reflected an abhorrence of the French position in the crisis of the church.  Her vision of August , on the day of the Assumption of the Virgin had Christ appealing to her in agony: I was once crucified, and another time I have been crucified, and this is a greater offence than that committed by Pilate who delivered me to death, because they would not accept the real pope which I had made, and they created another.  In another section of her comments Constance encouraged Gaston

The crusades, whether realized or merely planned, had a profound impact on medieval and early modern societies. Numerous scholars in the fields of history and literature have explored the influence of crusading ideas, values, aspirations and anxieties in both the Latin States and Europe. However, there have been few studies dedicated to investigating how the crusading movement influenced and was reflected in medieval visual cultures. Written by scholars from around the world working in the domains of art history and history, the essays in this volume examine the ways in which ideas of crusading were realized in a broad variety of media (including manuscripts, cartography, sculpture, mural paintings, and metalwork). Arguing implicitly for recognition of the conceptual frameworks of crusades that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries, the volume explores the pervasive influence and diverse expression of the crusading movement from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries.