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The IMC provides an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of Medieval Studies. Proposals on any topic related to the Middle Ages are welcome, while every year the IMC also chooses a special thematic focus. In 2021 this is ‘Climates’.

Climates are engendered by powerful interactions of heavens, oceans, and earth, and are themselves potent forces in complicated relationships with water, landscapes, patterns of weather, and human and non-human life. They affect, and are affected by, other climates – including of thought, opinion, feeling, belief, politics, society, and economics. Medievalists study populations across the globe that understood this interconnectedness in multiple ways, invested causal and explanatory power in observable phenomena, and lived in communities that were both vulnerable and responsive to shifting environmental conditions. Climates – in the many senses of the word – are now among the most pressing issues of our times. Expertise on the medieval period is becoming increasingly important to scientific and public conversations, while intensifying global instability threatens both the future study of a period long synonymous with irrelevancy, and the preservation of its material remains.

‘Climates’ can be explored on many levels, from the planetary to the intimately local, offering alternative routes to explore ideas of centres and peripheries, agency and determinism, connectivities, interdependencies and comparisons, as well as what constitutes the ‘global’ in this period. It was within dynamic environments and ecosystems that humans lived, moved, organised themselves, developed cosmologies, philosophies, and theologies, created material objects, literatures, and other records, extracted and exchanged the resources of different regions, competed for land and power, and faced disaster, displacement, and violence.

Themes to be addressed may include, but are not limited to:

• Medieval concepts of ‘climes’ and ‘climate’
• Cosmologies, world views, natural or supernatural causation
• Medieval enquiry into weather, seasons, monsoon patterns
• Astronomical and astrological observations and predictions
• Agriculture, pastoralism, modification of landscapes, exploitation of resources, inequality, colonialism
• Environmental determinism, medieval histories of modern inequalities
• Societal organisation, hierarchy, law-making, governance
• Applying paradigms of adaption, resilience, and collapse
• Ecosystems, entanglements, human and non-human agency
• ‘Climates’ of opinion, thought, feeling
• Disease, pathogens, and microbes
• Relationships between climate change and human history
• Ecocriticism, critical race theory, indigenous knowledge, ecofeminism, queer ecology
• Weather and weathering
• Interdisciplinarity and integration of historical climate and environmental data
• ‘Provincialising Europe’: Writing history on the ‘planetary’ or biospheric scale
• ’Climates’ and interregional connectivities, interdependencies and disconnections
• Fluctuations in migration, mobility, trade, exchange, and transmission
• Seas, oceans, rivers, monsoon, floods as dynamic spaces
• Medievalists, politics, climate justice, pedagogy, and activism
• Preservation of material remains amid growing climate and societal instability

The Special Thematic Strand ‘Climates‘ will be co-ordinated by Amanda Power (Faculty of History / St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford).

Proposals can be submitted online from 31 May 2020.

We have recently updated our Participation and Acceptance Criteria and encourage you to read these before submitting your paper or session proposal.

Paper proposal deadline: 31 August 2020

Session proposal deadline: 30 September 2020.

The IMC welcomes session and paper proposals submitted in all major languages.

You can find out more about how to submit a paper or session proporal by reading our handy guide.

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The importance of this theme justified its selection for the International Conference on the Middle Ages that will take place in Castelo de Vide in 2020. Taking Christian and Muslim medieval Europe as the stage for reflexion, we wish to analyse the different issues generated by urban governance, drawing on diverse information sources and looking for ways to bring together perspectives from History, Archaeology, Art History, Literature, Law, among others.

We invite researchers from any scientific area interested in the subject of urban governance in the medieval period to submit sessions or papers proposals within the range of the following thematic panels:

1. Institutions from the urban power: Recruitment systems and functions
2. The faces of governance: Urban elites
3. Evidences of governance in medieval urbanism: Spaces and constructions
4. Between the written and the lived: The municipal legislation and its application
5. Governing the municipal space: The town
6. Governing the municipal space: The countryside
7. Good government of the town: managing adversity
8. Bad government of the town: Fraud, corruption, arrogance
9. Financial management of the town
10. Municipal taxation: taxes and fees
11. The relations between powers within the town
12. The relations of the municipal power with external powers: cooperation and / or conflict
13. Urban leagues and / or brotherhoods
14. Discourses and representations about urban governance
15. The construction of memory and urban identity
16. Governing Castelo de Vide during the Middle Ages
    
    

The meeting will have four plenary conferences carried out by researchers invited by the organization and thematic sessions. Each session will integrate three paper presentations and will be 60 minutes long. Researchers who interested in participating can submit organized sessions or individual papers which will be gathered by the organizing committee in coherent panels. It will also be possible to submit poster proposals within the conference’s thematic panels. The meeting will also have a cultural program with guided tours and the Conference Dinner. It will also be launched the book which resulted from de IV International Conference on the Middle Ages (Castelo de Vide, October 2019).

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Deadline : 30.04.2020

Production and Commerce in Europe, 1100-1550

Porto, 26-27 November 2020

Invited convener: Carsten Jahnke (University of Copenhagen)

The RiMS (Research in Medieval Studies) Meeting invites research papers on how technical, productive, organisational, commercial, and mercantile innovations stimulated economic growth and the expansion of international trade from the twelfth century to the early sixteenth century. Recent historiographical works on medieval European trade follow approaches favouring the study of socioeconomic networks, the role of institutions, conflict management, port infrastructures, and cross-cultural exchange. In 2017, The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade Around Europe 1300–1600 pushed the theoretical analysis further by examining the level of autonomy of ports cities ‘vis-à-vis other powers in their environment or network,’ and the relation between cities and states. Moreover, it aimed at offering a ‘refreshing vision on Europe’s integration from the seaside’ (p. 11), one which was deepened in the 50th edition of the study week, in 2018, of the Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” dedicated to Maritime Networks as a Factor of European Integration.

Rather than looking at the complexities of urban autonomy, conflict management, and European integration, the RiMS Meeting returns, in a certain way, to the classical approach proposed in Lopez’s ground-breaking work The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages 950-1350, first published in 1971. Thus, it proposes to observe Europe’s expansion of long-distance trade by re-evaluating and investigating, under the light of recent research, the articulation between the productive sectors (agriculture and industry) and foreign commercial exchange between the twelfth and the early sixteenth century. It seeks not to underline the revolution of medieval trade, but the intricacies of both the productive and commercial sectors for the centuries preceding the first global age. The chronology of this project will include the first five decades of the sixteenth century in order to examine elements of continuity and change in European production and commerce, following the expansion of trade to other continents and newfound lands.

The call for papers is open to every scholar working on European history, particularly those who have produced ground-breaking research on medieval economic history. The meeting proceedings will be published both in paper and as an open-access, indexed e-monograph by the Coimbra University Press. Papers will be committed to double-blind review from a specialist board of advisers.

Researchers are invited to send a 500-words proposal and a two-page curriculum vitæ by 28 February 2020. Applicants will be informed of the scientific committee’s decision by 31 March 2020.

More details about the conference, including proposed topics, registration and travel arrangements, can be found here: https://rimsmeetings.wordpress.com/2020/01/10/call-for-papers/

Contact Info:
Research in Medieval Studies Committee

Flávio Miranda (CITCEM, University of Porto)

Maria Amélia Álvaro de Campos (CHSC, University of Coimbra)

Tiago Viúla de Faria (IEM, NOVA University of Lisbon)

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