20e Mediëvistendag: The visibility of the Middle Ages

Gouda, 24 oktober 2014
De Mediëvistendag 2014 wordt gehouden op vrijdag 24 oktober a.s. te Gouda in de Agnietenkapel. Het thema van het program is ‘De zichtbaarheid van de Middeleeuwen’.
Zoals altijd wordt de Mediëvistendag georganiseerd namens de Nederlandse Onderzoekschool Mediëvistiek en de Vlaamse Werkgroep Mediëvistiek. Organiserende universiteit is dit jaar de VU te Amsterdam; het voorbereidend comité staat onder leiding van prof. dr. K. Goudriaan. Kijk hieronder voor het programma, of zie http://www.medievistiek.nl voor meer informatie.

Programme

10.00-10.30 Registration and Coffee
10.30-10.45 Welcome (Prof. Koen Goudriaan, Chairman/Organizer); Introduction (Prof. Catrien Santing, Academic Director Netherlands Research School for Medieval Studies)
10.45-11.30 First keynote: Prof. dr. Peter Raedts (emeritus Radboud University Nijmegen)
11.30-12.15 Second keynote: Prof. dr. Jan Dumolyn (Ghent University), Medieval urban history, city marketing and the heritage industry: the case of Bruges
12.15-12.30 CARMEN (Dr. Jitske Jasperse, University of Amsterdam)
12.30-14.15 Lunch break; optional: visit Goudse Glazen, explanation by Charlotte Dikken, MA)
14.15-16.00 PhD presentations*
16.00-17.00 Dr. Annemarieke Willemsen (Rijksmuseum voor Oudheden, Leiden), Golden Middle Ages: How to sell the ‘difficult’ medieval period to a broad audience
17.00-18.00 Drinks

PhD Presentations
Time schedule for the three sessions:
14.15-14.40 first paper
14.40-15.05 second paper
15.05-15.30 third paper
15.30-15.50 final discussion
15.50-16.00 return to Agnietenkapel

Session I: Devotion
1. Cécile de Morrée, MA (Utrecht University)
The pragmatic functionality of devotional songs. Genesis, organization and function of vernacular devout song manuscripts

2. Ingmar Reesing, MA (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School for Culture and History)
Handy saints. Early sixteenth-century micro-carvings from an unknown workshop in the Northern Netherlands

3. Jelle Visser, MA (Utrecht University)
Approaching transcendence. Textual traditions, material remains, and debates about Willibrord’s Relics (739-1110)

Session II: Material and conceptual structures of society
1. Isabel Kimmelfield, MA (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Constantinople beyond the walls. Exploring the material and conceptual history of Byzantine suburbs

2. Jaap Ligthart, MA (Leiden University
Demise of the Domain

3. Miet Adriaens, MA (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Centre for Historical Research into Urban Transformation Processes)
Shifting grounds? Nobility, lordship and state formation in the sixteenth-century Low Countries (Case studies: Brabant and Flanders)

Session III: Court, city and literature
1. Lisa Demets, MA (Ghent University)
Text and context. The ideology and representation of mythological and historical actors in the “Excellente Cronike van Vlaenderen”’

2. Kim Ragetli, MA (Radboud University Nijmegen / Leiden University)
Oiling the wheels of state: Isabella of Portugal’s role as mediator and the dynamics of court-city relations

3. Dr. Janet van der Meulen (VU University Amsterdam)
Dante across the Alps. Count William III of Holland and the Divina Commedia

Locations:
Plenary meeting and Session I: Agnietenkapel, Nieuwe Markt 100 (town centre, near the well-known Markt and Stadhuis, a 10 minutes’ walk from railway station), Sessions II and III: Oud-katholieke kerk, Hoge Gouwe 107 (town centre)