medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Between heaven and everyday world. Knowledge and Community from the High
Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era
(7–8 June 2018, conference venue: Stiftungssaal K.0.0.1, University of
Klagenfurt/Austria)
Life in a community shapes the cultural expressions of the Middle Ages in
manifold ways, be these in literature and the arts, in the religious
context, or in the realm of science.
References to knowledge and frequent adaptations of knowledge horizons
play a significant role in this; they can support community and can also
be of existential relevance when salvation itself is at stake.
Consequently, communities rely on coherent stocks of knowledge, on
authorities and on tried and tested interpretation models. They are prone
to a didactically governed form of controlling knowledge and passing it
on, both in the highly abstract sphere of theoretical knowledge and in
instances of application-oriented knowledge.
The conference aims to examine the diverse medieval communities – these
being urban, political, social, and religious – and their knowledge
management, their modes of transferring knowledge, as well as their
educational ideals and their systematizing discourses.
Attention will be focused on 1) the arts and sciences, 2) the social and
cultural aspects of knowledge (e.g. religious orders, elites), 3) the
contemporary methodology and the processes of knowledge organisation, 4)
the reflection upon knowledge, 5) transfer activities.
Specifically, the following shall serve as starting points for the
intended approach:
education and training in schools, universities and monasteries
scholarly profession, experts, laity
knowledge of salvation, knowledge of virtue, ordo knowledge
canon and normalisation, accumulation and criticism
techniques, for instance the art of memory – what role does it play in
communal life, e.g., as part of rhetoric and catechesis? How is the
teaching’s dialectic of secrecy and dissemination arranged? –
literary or respectively theatrical knowledge negotiations and their
poetic methods (allegories or metaphors)
types of text conveying knowledge (treatises, chronicles, sermons,
university notes, didactic literature)
artistic methods (visuality)
artefacts as bearers of knowledge
Since the recent years have witnessed the publication of a considerable
number of proceedings and monographs, dealing specifically with learning
and knowledge in the early Middle Ages or, respectively, in the monastic
culture (Rolf H. Bremmer/Kees Dekker [ed.]: Foundations of Learning, 2007;
Rolf H. Bremmer/Kees Dekker [ed.]: Practice in Learning, 2010; Sita
Steckel: Kulturen des Lehrens im Früh- und Hochmittelalter, 2011; Concetta
Giliberto/Loredana Teresi [ed.]: Limits to Learning, 2013; Julia
Becker/Tino Licht/Stefan Weinfurter [ed.]: Karolingische Klöster.
Wissenstransfer und kulturelle Innovation, 2015), research shall now turn
its focus onto the high and late Middle Ages in an interdisciplinary
effort. Thus, the intention is to make fruitful use of the concepts of
knowledge transfer and of knowledge culture, which primarily get attention
in philological / historical disciplines and in the context of cultural
science (‚La trasmissione dei saperi nel Medioevo‘, Centro Italiano di
Studi di Storia e d’Arte Pistoia, 2005; Transfert des savoirs au Moyen Âge
– Wissenstransfer im Mittelalter. Ed. by Stephen Dörr and Raymund Wilhelm,
2008), for a later stage and for the transition between the late Middle
Ages and the beginning of the Modern Age.
The Call for Papers is addressed to scholars from various disciplines
engaged in medieval studies (including German Studies, Romance Studies,
English Studies, History, Art History, Medieval Latin/Neo-Latin Studies,
Theology, Philosophy), as well as adjacent realms of Early Modern Studies,
to explore one of the thematic aspects listed. Particular investigations
and case studies are welcome, as are fundamental considerations regarding
pre-modern communities and their knowledge culture.
Proposals for lectures (20 minutes) should preferably be e-mailed to this
address:
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Proposals are expected no later than 31 October 2017.
Proposals can be submitted in German or English (max. 1 page). In addition
to the lecture proposal, please send a short CV including a selection of
publications (max. 1 page).
The publication of the conference papers is planned.
The conference will take place in the Stiftungssaal of the
Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt (Universitätsstraße 65–67; Room K.
0.01). Accommodation and travel expenses can be paid in accordance with
the funding possibilities.
Organisation: Angelika Kemper (Klagenfurt), Christian Domenig (Klagenfurt)
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Contact Information
Ass.-Prof. Dr. Angelika Kemper Ass.-Prof. Mag. Dr.
Christian Domenig
Institute of German Studies Institute of History
University of Klagenfurt University of
Klagenfurt
Universitätsstraße 65–67 Universitätsstraße 65–67
A – 9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee A – 9020 Klagenfurt am
Wörthersee
Telephone +43 463 2700 2716 Telephone +43 463 2700 2224
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Kontakt
Ass.-Prof. Dr. Angelika Kemper Ass.-Prof. Mag. Dr.
Christian Domenig
Institut für Germanistik Institut für
Geschichte
Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt Alpen-Adria-Universität
Klagenfurt
Universitätsstraße 65–67 Universitätsstraße 65–67
A–9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee A–9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
+43 463 2700 2716 +43 463 2700 2224
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