Category: Past Events

Originally posted on Voices of Law: Language, Text and Practice: There are several funded places available for PhD students who wish to go to the conference as delegates. Travel and accommodation can be covered, but applications are on a first come, first served basis. Please contact VoicesofLaw (at) gmail (dot) com. LAW AND RITUAL 22-23…

Voices of Law International Network Conference: LAW AND RITUAL CONFERENCE 22-23 September 2016, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands #LawAndRitual @VoicesofLaw 22 September 2016 09:00-09:30 – REGISTRATION AND WELCOME 09:30 – 11:00 – RITUAL AND PERFORMANCE USING SCRIPTURE & LITURGY The Ritual of Torture in Medieval Courts Kenneth Pennington, The Catholic University of America Biblical analogues for early…

Honour, Social Differenciation, and Gender in Early Ireland and Francia Thursday 07 July 14.15-15.45 Abstract: This session forms part of the project ‘Religious Landscapes in the 8th Century:… Source: ICM 2016 Session 1704

International conference at Ghent University (Belgium), Thursday 18th to Saturday 20th February 2016 Confirmed keynote speaker: Prof. dr. Stephanos Efthymiadis (Open University of Cyprus) ‘Saints and second heroes: cases and forms of an extended narrative in Byzantine hagiography’ For programme see link Registration is now open

Norms and Practices: Food in Medieval Monastic Communities Organiser: Emilie Perez, PhD, CEPAM-UMR 7264, University of Nice (France) This session aims to discuss the dietary behaviour of medieval monastic communities through an interdisciplinary approach. Substantial written sources are available, such as the Rules of Life (regulae), which defined the essence of their lifestyle and especially…

The programme for the Luxeuil-les-Bains 2015 conference has been published (programme colloque luxeuil 2015). However it may be subject to change, for updates see the event’s website. The Conference Registration and Accommodation and Meals Form is appended to the programme and should be completed as soon as possible and returned to: reservation.tourisme@luxeuil-les-bains.fr A Word version of this form is…

CFP for Thematic Session: Byzantines and the Bible DEADLINE 30 September 2015 @ 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Belgrade, 22-27 August 2016 Recent scholarship has turned its attention to the role of the Bible in the Byzantine world, notably with two recent Dumbarton Oaks Colloquia on the Old and New Testaments respectively, but much remains to be…

Call for Papers for Thematic Session – ICM Leeds 2016 – THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND CHURCH BISHOPS AND THEIR COMMUNITIES IN THE CAROLINGIAN ERA (8th-10th c.) The Carolingian ecclesiastical reform movement (or rather: correctio) of the eighth and ninth centuries was concerned with the improvement of the ecclesia as a whole, the ultimate goal…

Debating relics. Reflections on relics in the Middle Ages and problems of methodology This strand of sessions, emanating from the research (NWO-Vidi) project Mind over Matter. Debates about relics as sacred objects c. 350-c.1150, deals with debates about relics and the ways modern scholars can get access to these debates. On the basis of the…

The Monastic Ireland project team is hosting an International Conference, to be held 22nd – 25th August in Ennis, Co. Clare. Located in an area rich with the medieval buildings of the European monastic orders, the conference will balance sessions of papers from national and international experts with a variety of site visits, including the friaries at Adare, Ennis and Quin,…