Mediëvistendag 2022
The theme of the Research School for Medieval Studies' Medieval Studies' Day 2022 (UvA, Amsterdam, 4 November 2022) is Reflections. Please find the registration links below the programme. Questions? Please contact medievistendag2022@gmail.com.
Programme
Amsterdam, Friday 4 November
Part 1: Oudemanhuispoort
9.30-10.00 Registration, coffee/tea
10.00-10.10 Welcome by UvA (Serena Ferente)
10.10-10.30 Welcome by Onderzoekschool Mediëvistiek (Claire Weeda)
10.30-11.15 Plenary 1: Keynote Gerard Wiegers: Between “Medieval” Convivencia and forced conversion: Granada.
11.15-11.30 Break
11.30-12.30 Sessions 1 | Optional: pop-up expo at Allard Pierson
Architectuur en pracht
- Huub Kurstjens: Een historiografische benadering van Castel del Monte
- Dirk Jan de Vries (ULeiden): Gezichten op gevels van huizen
- Mats Dijkdrent (UCLouvain): Betekenissen van magnificentia
Words and religion
- Iris Denis (RU): Distorted reflections? Exploring Pseudo-Augustinian sermons in early-medieval collections
- Robin Moens (RWTH Aachen): Dictatus Papae en actiones papae. De reflectie van het denken van Gregorius VII in het pauselijk handelen (in Lotharingen)
Reflecting on the past
- Kay Boers (UU): Remembering Leovigild: Reflecting on Citizens and Homoian Kings in Seventh Century Hispania
- Alex Collin (UvA): From a Window to a Mirror: Thinking about the Hanse in Late Medieval and Early Modern Bremen
12.30-14.00 Lunch and book exhibition | Optional: pop-up expo at Allard Pierson
14.00-15.00 Sessions 2 | Optional: pop-up expo at Allard Pierson
Land, people and the economy
- Silvio Ruberto (UU): Reflection in and on Audoin’s Vita Eligii: St Eligius’s Role as a Commentary on Sanctity in Merovingian Gaul and as Testing Ground for Ian Wood’s “Temple Society” Thesis
- Jim van der Meulen (Ghent/Oxford): Lordship and Agrarian Capitalism in the Low Countries, c.1350 – c.1650
- Rombert Stapel (IISH): Replication in a Humanities Context: Reconstructing the Population of the Low Countries in the Middle Ages and Beyond
Reflective art
- Sumihiro Oki (UvA): Double Reflection: Konrad Witz and Jan van Eyck
- Jesús Rodríguez Viejo (RUG): Lost Shine: An Eleventh-Century Spanish Chest-Reliquary and its Former Metallic Cover
15.00-15.30 Break / move to Singelkerk
Part 2: Singelkerk
15.30-16.30 Plenary 2: Annemieke Romein & Jan Burgers: Paleografie 2.0? AI en nieuwe mogelijkheden met digitale handschriftherkenning.
16.30-17.15 Concert: Ensemble Corona performs a selection of pieces from the 13th to the 15th centuries, accompanied by readings of medieval texts.
17.15-18.00 Drinks