Preliminary Programme

Showing: Middle Ages (all days)
Wed 24 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Thu 25 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Fri 26 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14.15
    16.30

Sat 27 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

All days
Wednesday 24 March 2004 10:45
J-2 MID08 Politics, Diplomacy and Affection: the marriage alliences of the Portuguese Royal Family
Room J
Networks: Middle Ages , Women and Gender Chair: Adelaide Costa
Organizer: Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues Discussants: -
Thérèse de Hemptinne : Tereza, Isabel and the others. The Portuguese matrimonial alliances of the counts and countesses of Flanders (1184-1526)
Maria Paula Marçal Lourenço : Marriage alliances, diplomatic strategies and court factions: the retinue and household of D. Maria Sofia de Neuburg
Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues : "For the Price of my Body” – The Dots and Dowries of Portuguese Medieval Queens and Princesses
Manuela Santos-Silva : Royal marriages policy (XIVth and XVth century)



Wednesday 24 March 2004 14:15
E-3 MID01 State formation, National Identity and Social History: the late Medieval Low Countries Compared I
Room E
Network: Middle Ages Chair: Peter Stabel
Organizer: Robert Stein Discussant: Peter Stabel
Sjoerd Bijker : The development of the nation in Brabant in the late Middle Ages
Aart Noordzij : State and Nation in Guelders in the late Middle Ages
Robert Stein : An introduction, late medieval states and nations in a historiographical perspective



Wednesday 24 March 2004 16:30
E-4 MID02 State Formation, National Identity and Social History: the late Medieval Low Countries compared part II
Room E
Network: Middle Ages Chair: Peter Stabel
Organizer: Robert Stein Discussant: Peter Stabel
Hans Cools : For the defence of city and county and for the honour of the emperor. Local identities and monarchical sentiments in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1477-1559
Raymond Fagel : State, nation, and identity: a comparison between Spain and the Low Countries (16th century)
Tim Soens : Difference and indifference. Local administration facing the rise of a central state in late medieval Flanders



Thursday 25 March 2004 8:30
E-5 MID05 Knighthood and Nobility in the Low Countries
Room E
Network: Middle Ages Chair: Peter Stabel
Organizer: Antheun Janse Discussants: -
Godfried Croenen : Nobles, Knights and Ministerials: Aristocratic Status in the Duchy of Brabant
Jan Dumolyn : Becoming noble in Burgundian Flanders
Antheun Janse : The Transformation of the Aristocracy: the Northern Low Countries in the Thirteenth Century
Jean-François Nieus : "Principes quos pares vocant". The institution of "peerage" in the Low Countries between the 11th and 13th centuries
Dries Tys : Landscape and Nobility: the impact of social groups on the formation of the landscape in Coastal Flanders during the Middle Ages



Friday 26 March 2004 8:30
E-9 MID03 Urban Elites in Northwestern Europe: social differentiation, collective behaviour and cultural expression
Room E
Network: Middle Ages Chair: Marc Boone
Organizers: Jelle Haemers, Guido Marnef Discussant: Marc Boone
Carolien de Staelen : The material world of a religious elite in sixteenth-century Antwerp: the canons and the chaplains of the chapter of Our Lady
Jelle Haemers : Dangerous Liaisons? The networks of urban elites in late medieval Flanders and their ambivalent connection with the central authority of the Burgundian State
Guido Marnef : Collective actions and the struggle for power in sixteenth-century Brussels: a complex relationship between central state, city elite and middle and lower classes
Maarten van Dijck : Crime and the urban elite in sixteenth-century Antwerp



Friday 26 March 2004 10:45
B-10 MID04 Oligarchy and Patronage in Spanish and Portuguese Late Medieval Urban Society: 1. Politics and power relations
Room B
Network: Middle Ages Chair: Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues
Organizers: María Asenjo-González, Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues Discussant: Marc Boone
María Asenjo-González : Structuring Urban System as Bonding Process in Castilian Oligarchic Society in Fifteenth-Century
Angel Galán Sanchez : The Muslim Population of the Christian Kingdom of Granada: Urban oligarchies and rural communities
Yolanda Guerrero Navarrete : Politic and financial groups in the Castilian towns at XV century: the case of Burgos
Flocel Sabate : Oligarchies and Social Fractures in the Cities of Lower Middle-Age Catalonia



Friday 26 March 2004 14.15
L-11 MID09 Public Health - from Medieval to Early Modern Times
Room L
Networks: Health and Environment , Middle Ages Chair: Bruce Fetter
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Miri Shefer-Mossensohn : Medical Aetiologies and Urban Space in an Early Modern Muslim Society: The Case of the Ottoman Capitals
Meri Vuohu : Healthy City and Countryside in the Renaissance Italy: Pisan Practices and Experiences


R-11 MID10 Oligarchy and Patronage in Spanish and Portuguese Late Medieval Urban Society: 2. Social constructions
Room S
Network: Middle Ages Chair: María Asenjo-González
Organizers: María Asenjo-González, Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues Discussant: Marc Boone
Adelaide Costa : The urban oligarchies of the Northern Portugal in the fifteenth-century
José Antonio Jara Fuente : Attributing Social Spaces and Satisfying Social Expectations: the Urban System as a Circuit of Power Structuring Relations (Castile in the Fifteenth-Century).
Germán Navarro, José Ángel Sesma : Prosopography of the urban societies of Aragon in the XIV-XVth centuries. Social strategies and individual behaviour within the urban ruling groups
Eloisa Ramírez-Vaquero : Urban oligarchic networks in Navarra



Friday 26 March 2004 16.30
E-12 MID06 Gift-exchange in later medieval Europe: sources, problems and perspectives
Room E
Network: Middle Ages Chair: Peter Stabel
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ulf Christian Ewert : The rationality of gift-giving. An economic theoretical approach to gift-exchange in the late Middle Ages
Jan Hirschbiegel : New Year's gift-giving at the French courts - one system, different functions
Hanno Wijsman : Manuscripts as gifts at the fifteenth century Burgundian court



Saturday 27 March 2004 14:15
E-15 MID07 Religion and society in Medieval Europe
Room E
Network: Middle Ages Chair: Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues
Organizer: Peter Stabel Discussants: -
Ionut Epurescu-Pascovici : A Franciscan 'Personal Community' of the Thirteenth Century
Gabriella Erdélyi : Conflicts, negotiations, concessions: the laity and the clergy in Late Medieval Hungary
Ruxandra-Iulia Stoica : Medieval semiology: an esoteric perspective
Liesbeth Zuidema : Artistic patronage in Carthusian monasteries in late medieval Europe


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