Medieval and Byzantine History / Studies

Borderlines XXIII, 'Sound and Silence in the Medieval and Early Modern World', Trinity College Dublin, 26–28 April 2019

Trinity College Dublin is proud to host the annual Borderlines conference. The conference is in its 23rd year and attracts a large number of medievalists and early modernists from across the globe.  

Brazil as a product of Portuguese colonization and the political processes of the modern and contemporary period is a nation whose identity, similarly to the rest of American nations, has been mostly built recurring to a post-medieval past. This characteristic, however, did not preclude Brazilian historical culture from incorporating elements of the European and especially Portuguese Middle Ages, which in turn influenced the image that Brazilians created about themselves.

Sacred Kingship in World History: Between Immanence and Transcendence
Hosted by the Oxford Centre for Global History and the University of Texas

Date:                25-26 May 2019

Location:         Brasenose College, University of Oxford

Central European University, Budapest and Vienna

Relaunch of the Ad fontes e-learning project

The University of Zurich has relaunched its digital Ad fontes project with a new website and new tools designed to teach students how to navigate archives and work with historical documents.

We are pleased to invite abstracts for a two-day conference on the theme of Rebellion in Medieval Europe taking place at Canterbury Christ Church University on Friday 21^st and Saturday 22^nd June 2019. We are delighted to welcome Prof. Björn Weiler (Aberystwyth University) and Dr.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the availability of a several small travel awards of $200 each to offset the cost of attendance for graduate students and early career scholars coming to Ann Arbor for the De-centering the Global Middle Ages symposium taking place at the University of Michigan Feb 8-9, 2019.

Call for Papers

2019 #PoB4

This time, the Power of the Bishop team are joining with the Episcopus Society for the 2019 conference, exploring the theme of Episcopal Patronage from Late Antiquity to c.1500. We want to put together thematic panels that compare and contrast uses, abuses and outcomes of bishops as patrons across time and geographical boundaries.

We are looking for papers that explore, but are not limited to:

* Art and architecture

* Music and Liturgy

* Manuscripts and Literary Culture

* Saint Cults and Pilgrimage Routes

In the premodern world, geographical knowledge was influenced by religious ideas and beliefs. The conference seeks to analyse, how the religious character of geographic knowledge in the period from ca. 1150 to 1550 lingered on in classical as well as new forms of presenting geography. To open up a comparative perspective, case studies of Latin-Christian works are complemented by examples of the Arabic-Islamic geographic tradition. The focus lies on sources that combine texts with cartographic depictions, be it maps of the known world or of its parts or regions.