Preliminary Programme

Showing: Middle Ages (all days)
Wed 23 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 24 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 17.30

Fri 25 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 26 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 23 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
Z-3 URB10a Urban Memory, Language and the Social History of Politics (15th-17th Centuries) I
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Middle Ages , Urban Chair: Mario Damen
Organizers: Mario Damen, Jelle Haemers, Valerie Vrancken Discussants: -
Christian Kuhn : Mockery and Pamphlets in the Early Modern Public Sphere
Adam Morton : "From Mockery to Death: Stephen College's 'The Raree Show' - Libel and Death in Restoration England"
Valeria Van Camp : Li papiers de memores de ce que li eskevins de Mons ont besongniet. A Study of Social Groups and How they were Perceived by the Political Elite of Mons in the 15th Century
Tineke Van Gassen : The Archives of the City: the Social Memory of Fifteenth-century Ghent



Wednesday 23 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
Z-4 URB10b Urban Memory, Language and the Social History of Politics (15th-17th Centuries) II
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Middle Ages , Urban Chair: Jelle Haemers
Organizers: Mario Damen, Jelle Haemers, Valerie Vrancken Discussants: -
Frederik Buylaert, Jelle Haemers : Nobility as a Commemorative Performance. The Lord of Dadizele between the City and the State in the Fifteenth-century Low Countries
Mario Damen : Patricians, knights or nobles? Historiography and identity in late medieval Antwerp
Felicia Rosu : The Decree of the Country: Constitutional Language and Practices in Early Modern East Central Europe
Valerie Vrancken : Ideology and Politics: the Joyous Entries of Brabant (14th-15th Centuries)



Thursday 24 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
O-5 ETH19 Mobility of Artisans and Craftsmen
Hörsaal 41 first floor
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Middle Ages Chair: Elisabeth Thoss
Organizer: Elisabeth Thoss Discussant: Elisabeth Thoss
Emese Balint : Religious Migration of Anabaptist Craftsmen in Early Modern Europe
Károly Goda : Beyond Crafts and Guilds: Artisans’ Careers in(to) the Elites of Late Medieval Vienna
Katalin Mária Kincses, Tuza Csilla : Supraregional Exchange and Mobility of Hungarian Craftmen in Europe


Z-5 MID02 Round Table: The Agency of Craft Guilds in the Medieval City
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Middle Ages , Social Inequality Chairs: Bert De Munck, Peter Stabel
Organizers: Bert De Munck, Peter Stabel Discussants: Bert De Munck, Jan Dumolyn, Peter Stabel, Patrick Wallis



Thursday 24 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
O-6 ETH06a Early Medieval Migrations I: Migrations in the Abbasid Caliphate - Iran - East Slavic Lands
Hörsaal 41 first floor
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Middle Ages Chair: Johannes Koder
Organizer: Dirk Hoerder Discussant: Johannes Koder
George Hatke : Aksumites in South Arabia: An Ethiopian Diaspora in Late Antique Yemen
Dirk Hoerder : Migration – Travel – Commerce – Cultural Transfer: The Complex Connections Byzantium-Kiev-Novgorod-Varangian Land, 6th-14th Century
Lucian Reinfandt : Regime Change and Elite Migration in the Islamic Caliphate (642-969 AD)


Z-6 MID03 Morality, Law and Sexual Behaviour in the (late) Medieval City
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Middle Ages , Sexuality Chair: Tineke Van de Walle
Organizer: Tineke Van de Walle Discussant: Peter Stabel
Anke De Meyer : The Perception of Women as Active or Passive Contributors in Conjuring up an Honourable Society in Late Medieval Letters of Remission
Jelle Haemers : Sex and Politics in the City: about Insults in Late Medieval Flanders
Jonas Roelens : Sodomy and Citizenship. The Repression of Same-sex Acts within Different Social Groups in Late Medieval Southern Netherlandish Society
Claire Weeda : Sex as Preventative Medicine in Late Medieval Cities



Thursday 24 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
O-7 ETH06b Early Medieval Migrations II: Migrations in Byzantium and Armenia
Hörsaal 41 first floor
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Middle Ages Chair: Claudia Rapp
Organizers: - Discussant: Claudia Rapp
Alexander Beihammer : Turkish Migration Processes and Patterns of Cross-Cultural Permeation in Medieval Anatolia (Eleventh – Thirteenth Century)
Johannes Koder : Remarks on the Slavic Immigration and landnahme in the Byzantine Balkans
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller : Aristocrats, Mercenaries, Clergymen and Refugees: Deliberate and Forced Mobility of Armenians in the Early Medieval Mediterranean and Near East (6th to 11th century)
Ioannis Stouraitis : Migrating within Medieval Empire: Towards a Typology of Movement of People and Groups in Post-Seventh Century Byzantium


Z-7 MID01 Risk vs Uncertainty: Between Rational Investments and Gambling in the Middle Ages
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Network: Middle Ages Chair: Wouter Ryckbosch
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Nicholas Scott Baker : Taking Chances: Gambling and Commerce in Late Medieval Italy
Jonas Braekevelt : Monopolising Lotteries, Restricting Gambling. Institutional and Socio-cultural Contradictions in the Game of Chance-policy of the Burgundian-Habsburg State (15th Century)
Giovanni Ceccarelli : Making Business out of Gambling in Medieval Italy
Jeroen Puttevils : The Lure of Lady Luck: Lotteries and Economic Culture in the Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-century Low Countries
Thomas Max Safley : Considerations of Risk in Early Modern Bankruptcy Proceeding



Friday 25 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
Z-9 MID04 The 'Props' of Everyday Life? Material Culture, Daily Practices and Urban Values in Late Medieval and early Modern Urban Society
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Middle Ages Chair: Peter Stabel
Organizer: Inneke Baatsen Discussants: -
Kim Overlaet, Inneke Baatsen : A Spoonful of Meanings? An Analysis of the Layered Meanings of Silver Spoons in Sixteenth-century Mechelen
Maxime Poulain : Cultural Identity and Social Standing: the Case-study of Middelburg
Isis Sturtewagen : Clothing the Children. Dress and Daily Life at the Begard School of Bruges in the mid-16th Century.
Katherine Wilson : The Function of Textiles in Domestic Spaces from the Evidence of Testaments and Inventories from Later Medieval Dijon, Douai and Tournai



Friday 25 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
Z-10 MID05 Analysing Networks of Communication: China and Europe in Comparative Perspective (800-1600)
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Asia , Middle Ages Chair: Peter Stabel
Organizers: - Discussant: Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
Francisco Javier Apellániz : Cooperating in Complex Environments: Cross-cultural Trade, Commercial Networks and Notarial Culture in the Islamic Cities of Commerce (1350-1500)
Hilde De Weerdt : Analyzing Political Affiliations in Notebooks and Correspondence: Factionalist Politics Revisited
Franz-Julius Morche, Sergio Currarini : An Economic Model of Political Communication: Informational Networks in Venetian Long-Distance Trade, 1350-1500
Maria Riep : tba



Friday 25 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
Z-11 MID06 Italian Businessmen in Medieval Central and Eastern Europe
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Network: Middle Ages Chair: Stephan Sander-Faes
Organizers: - Discussant: Stephan Sander-Faes
Francesco Bettarini : Foreign Moneylenders in Renaissance Ragusa (Dubrovnik)
Katalin Prajda : Florentine Metal and Textile Trade in Buda and Venice. A Commercial Triangle in 15th-Century Europe
Martin Štefánik : Italians’ Participation in Metal Mining and Trade in the Territory of Central Slovakia in the 13th and 14thCenturies
Roman Zaoral : Church and Money. Papal Collections Management in Central Europe, 1250-1350



Friday 25 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
B-12 CRI13 The Delays in Monopolising Legitimate Violence in Europe (End of the Middle Ages-Early Modern Period)
Hörsaal 16 raised ground floor
Networks: Criminal Justice , Middle Ages Chair: Xavier Rousseaux
Organizer: Aude Musin Discussant: Xavier Rousseaux
Lars Behrisch : The Monopolisation of Violence in 15th- and 16th Century German Cities
Aude Musin : Resistances against the Monopolisation of Pardon for Homicide in the Low Countries (16th-18th Centuries)
Michel Nassiet : The Long Implementation of Judiciary Monopolies in France in the Early Modern Period
Andrea Zorzi : Vendetta and Criminal Law in Italian City-states


Z-12 MID07 Medieval Cities in the Iberian Peninsula
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Middle Ages , Urban Chair: Frederik Buylaert
Organizers: - Discussants: -
María Asenjo-González : Social Ties and Political Representation in the City: the Presence of the Commoners in the City Council in Castile at the End of the Middle Ages
María Ángeles Martín Romera : From Representing Political Factions to Representing Different Social Groups: Changes in the Castilian Urban System at the End of the Middle Ages
Jesus Angel Solorzano-Telechea : The Development of the Commons’ Political Identity in the Late Medieval Towns of Northern Atlantic Spain
Irina Variash : Dialogue of Muslim and Christian Communities with the Crown (Kingdom of Aragon, XIVth century)



Saturday 26 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
I-14 LAB14 mid Quality Control in Pre-Modern Eurasian Economies
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Networks: Labour , Middle Ages Chair: Markus Cerman
Organizers: Jessica Dijkman, Christine Moll Murata Discussant: Bert De Munck
Andrea Caracausi : Has Quality Control been a Matter for Guilds? Evidence from the Guild Courts in Early Modern Italy
Jessica Dijkman, Maarten Prak : How to Become a Master Craftsman? Guild Regulation of Professional Training and Qualification in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe and the Near East’
Christine Moll Murata : Quality Control in Chinese Textile Guilds’


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