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Call for Applications: MINESCAPES: Socio-natural Landscapes of Extraction and Knowledge in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period 27 oktober 2023
MINESCAPES invites PhD students from various disciplines to apply for participation in their 2024 summer school, taking place from May 31 to June 10, 2024. The Summer School will bring together students and scholars from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences to study mining landscapes with a particular focus on the Harz mountains through cultural-historical methods, archaeological data, and scientific analyses of soils, waters, flora, and fauna to gain a more comprehensive picture of the complex human-environment relationships of this site. Deadline for applications: December 17.
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CfP: Animal Heroes in Medieval Literature (Trent, 25-28 September 2024) 27 oktober 2023
The University of Trento hosts the biennial conference of the International Reynard Society, taking place on September 25-28 2024. Deadline for paper/session submissions: December 31.
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Vacature: Postdoc & PhD's legal history (Tilburg) 18 oktober 2023
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.
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Lecture series: Mmmonk School 2023 09 oktober 2023
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!
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Masterclass: Why did Pope Gregory the Great make churches give up property? (Roy Flechner, University College Dublin) 09 oktober 2023
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.
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Signum Symposium: Materiële cultuur in religieuze instellingen (Gent, 2 december 2023) 04 oktober 2023
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.
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Publicatie: Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (c. 1450–1600) 04 oktober 2023
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.
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Boeklanceringen "Middeleeuwse Medemensen" 27 september 2023
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.
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Vacature: Postdoctoraal Onderzoeker Rechtsgeschiedenis (Tilburg University) 27 september 2023
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.
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Program Current Issues in Religious Studies and Western Esotericism (University of Amsterdam), Academic Year 2023–2024 21 september 2023
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.