This
Academic Meetings seek to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the
discussion of all aspects of medieval studies. Each Congress has one
particular special thematic strand on an area of interdisciplinary
study in a wider context.
Next
Autumn the city of Nájera (La Rioja, Spain) will once again host the
International Meetings of the Middle Ages, organized by the Medieval
Research Group of the University of Cantabria,
supported by the Town council of Nájera,
Dirección General de Cultura de la Consejería
de Desarrollo Económico e Innovación de La Rioja,
Escuela de Patrimonio Histórico de Nájera, Instituto de
Estudios Riojanos, University of Cantabria, Sociedad Espańola de
Estudios Medievales, Instituto de Estudos Medievais de la
Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the Government of Spain.
The
international conference will take place in Nájera (Spain), from
8th to 9th
November, 2018.
The topic
of this year is about:
Law
and Authority in the Medieval Atlantic Europe (and beyond)
Much of the
sophistication of the late medieval public sphere at both the state
as the local level came from legal practice, and the discourse that
it generated. In the period between 1250 and 1550, rapid changes
within the juridical and political history of communities took
place. More law was written down, and more new law was made. More
people went to public courts, and far more judgments were written
down. While the juridical power of lords, kings, and emperors has
already abundantly been studied, a systematic comparison of urban
law and legal practices across Europe has not yet been undertaken.
Townspeople (both the elite as well as the less powerful
inhabitants) were coming to be involved in the arena of written law,
everywhere, which in itself tied them into the political networks of
the town. Even if this participation was not always willing, and
took place in contexts of subjection and contention, the legal world
was touching everyone by the later Middle Ages. Furthermore,
political thinking about legal practices and the government of towns
was increasingly written down by lawyers and secular clerks,
sometimes resulting in the production of treatises on 'how cities
should be governed'. The growing production of texts in the later
medieval towns (verdicts, agreements, ordinances, treatises, and
legal records) enables historians to study the political history of
law within an urban context. Therefore we invite speakers to think
about the following questions. Who took the initiative to make law
in the medieval town? Perhaps more than we think, the political
interaction between townspeople rather than the personal opinions of
urban rulers seems to have been responsible for the creation of new
rules in towns. Which ideas did motivate townspeople to participate
in the law making process? Where did the authority of law makers
come from? Their political power gave urban magistrates the right to
promulgate town ordinances, but one wonders which kind of principles
lay on the basis of their active engagement to do so. Why did people
increasingly go to court to settle conflicts? Why were these
settlements written down? Town magistrates created archives and
'written memories' of legal practices, but one wonders what
motivated them to do so. Such questions can only be answered by
studying both the political as well as the legal history of towns.
As a result, this conference wants to unite historians combining
both aspects in their work. Concrete topics could be: A
study of political or legal treatises on urban government
Law-making and decision-making processes within towns Legal
practices of townspeople Confrontation and conflicts about the
jurisdiction of town governments political discourse of local
judges Writing practices of town councils: the codification of
law ('cartularies') and the recording of verdicts The role of
the various 'socio-political actors', formal and informal groups, of
the Atlantic town-ports in the elaboration of norms regarding
private and public affairs Comparison of the urban legislation
and the influence in shaping the social and political order of the
urban community The regulation of port activity and the sea in
legal systems, charters and local law
CALL FOR PAPERS
Historians and Graduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts
for research presentations or posters on topics related to "Exclusion
and social discipline
in the Medieval European City”.
Abstracts
should be no more than 500 characters and should clearly state the
purpose, thesis, methodology, and principal findings of the paper to
be presented. Successful proposals will be published in 2018. All
abstracts and a short CV should be submitted electronically to Jesús
Solórzano at: solorzaja@unican.es
and Jelle Haemers
jelle.haemers@kuleuven.be
The deadline for submissions will be September 1th, 2018.
Grants
Spanish
Society of Medieval Studies
established a fund to support students
participation and attendance in the Conference. The Conference Fund is
available to all students, both undergraduate and graduate, who are
looking for funding to attend a conference related to their academic or
professional goals. The purpose of these grants is to encourage and
assist student presentations at this academic conference related to
his/her goals by off-setting the cost of lodging.
The
application for grants is open to all students who meet the following:
• The
student is in good academic standing
• The
student has matriculated into a degree of Grade, Master or PhD.
• Good
knowledge of modern languages
The
languages of the meetings are Spanish, English, French, Italian and
Portuguese.
Venue:
Escuela de Patrimonio de Nájera. Plaza de Santa María. Nájera.
Spain.
GUIDELINES FOR THE MONOGRAPHIC BOOK
Style and technical specifications
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The monographic book
will be published by the Instituto de Estudios Riojanos, an
Spanish pretigious institute and publishing house, as well as
holding an important share of the Latin America continent.
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Paper should be
sent, please, before
on
1st
April 2019, in a format that is
recognisable to Microsoft Word (.doc) in any of its versions for
Windows.
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The maximum length
of manuscripts is 25 pages.
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Double spacing
should be used for all the paper except for the references which are
to be single-spaced.
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Times New Roman,
normal style, 12-point type.
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Footnotes or Notes,
when necessary, are to be placed at the end of the page and numbered
in their order of appearance in the text.
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Illustrations
(images, graphics...) are to be inserted in the appropriate point in
the text.
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All illustrations
will be denominated generically Figures and are to be numbered
consecutively using Arabic numerals with the title centred at the
bottom.
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Images must be in
black and white with a quality of at least 300 ppp.
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Images have to be
sent in a separated files.
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The title page
should contain a concise and informative title, author’s name and
full address of the institution, email address and current address.
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The article will
include an introduction and conclusions.
Footnotes and
citations
Examples:
a) Conference papers
and communications or chapters of books:
Benton,
J. R. “Clio and Venus: An Historical View of Medieval Love”,
Newman, E.X. (Ed.) The Meaning of Courtly Love. State
University of New York Press, Albany, 1968: 19-42.
b) Journal articles.
Wicham, C. “Sobre la mutación
socioeconómica de larga duración en Occidente durante los siglos V-VIII”,
Studia Historica. Historia Medieval, 22, 2004: 17-32.
c) books
Verbruggen, J.F.
The Art of Warfare in Western Europe during the Middle Ages: from
the Eighth Century to 1340. Boydell Press, Ámsterdam, 1977.
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