IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 234: Medieval Literacy in the Former Low Countries and in Northern France: New Trends and Young Scholars, I
Monday 7 July 2014, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Université Catholique de Louvain / Pratiques médiévales de l'Écrit (PraME), Université de Namur |
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| Organisers: | Paul Bertrand, Faculté de Philosophie, Arts et Lettres, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve Marie van Eeckenrode, Faculté de Philosophie, Arts et Lettres, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve |
| Moderator/Chair: | Paul Bertrand, Faculté de Philosophie, Arts et Lettres, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve |
| Paper 234-a | The Gesta Galcheri episcopi: Reform, Politics, and Textual Production in Early 12th-Century Cambrai (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Ecclesiastical History, Literacy and Orality, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 234-b | New Approaches on the Practice of Reading, 15th-16th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Literacy and Orality, Mentalities, Social History |
| Abstract | The studies on Literacy are blooming since two decades and it seems that this new way of dealing with old sciences, as palaeography, codicology, diplomatics, or archival science, has become a major trend in Medieval History. As a lot of young scholars are working on that topic (either as a main theme or as a related problematic), it seems more en more important to allow them to present the core of their thesis in redaction, as these students are all on their way to build very innovative and pathbreaking studies. The Université Catholique de Louvain and theUniversité de Namur hosted these last years some of these students; they work with specialists of medieval literacy, they are dealing with the PRAME Center (Pratiques médiévales de l'Écrit, Université de Namur), they are linked to a European network like the Réseau des médiévistes belges de langue française (RMBLF). Their main research interest focus on this very specific area, between the kingdom of France and the Empire, on the remains of late Lotharingia. This cultural and intellectual cauldron of late medieval Europe calls innovative studies, which will be presented during these sessions. |