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Research seminar of the Antwerp Centre for Urban History on “The North Sea region after the Black Death: recession, stagnation or golden age?”

Research seminar with Bruce Campbell (Queen’s University Belfast), organized by the Antwerp Centre for Urban History.

Antwerp, Monday 19th of March 2018, 15:00-17:30

Venue? UAntwerpen, Meerminne, M003 https://www.uantwerpen.be/images/uantwerpen/container1161/files/CST_17_NED.pdf

With The Great Transition. Climate, Disease and Society in the Late Medieval World (CUP, 2016), Bruce Campbell has rewritten the history of both the Black Death and the European economy in the later Middle Ages. After the Great Transition the economic history of the pre-industrial world can no longer be told without taking into account climate and ecology. The Great Transition also fundamentally challenges our view of post-Black Death Europe: once the tipping point of the 1340s had been passed, Europe gradually found itself in conditions which no longer resembled the world of growth and expansion of the 12th and 13th centuries. Instead repeated plague outbreaks, demographic contraction, bullion famine, economic depression and commercial isolation characterized Europe between c. 1390 and c. 1490. For historians of the ‘Burgundian’ Low Countries, this might be a rather ‘shocking’ perspective. While not dismissing the crisis of the Later Middle Ages all together, historians of the Low Countries often tend to focus on the persistent urban economic, political and cultural dynamics of this period. Did the urban Low Countries escape the ‘systemic changes’ of the Later Middle Ages? Or, were they rather the exception to the rule, an island of ‘prosperity amidst adversity’? Or do we have to reassert the scale and depth of economic contraction and declining employment in the Later Middle Ages, even in the core regions of the Low Countries?

In this afternoon seminar, Bruce Campbell presents recent estimates of English GDP per head, daily real wage rates of men and women and annual earnings. These invite us to rethink the transformation of labour after the Black Death, starting from debates on the so-called Golden Age of Labour, declining employment and a growing leisure preference. His presentation will be followed by two papers on the Low Countries.

  1. Monday 19th March 2018, 15:00-17:30 M003

15:00: Bruce M.S. Campbell (The Queen’s University of Belfast)

Unemployment, leisure and industriousness in late-medieval and renaissance Europe

15:50: Sam Geens and Tim Soens (UAntwerp):

A golden age of leisure? Employment rates in coastal Flanders between the 13th and 15th century.

16:15: Peter Stabel (UAntwerp):

Winners and losers. Urban labour and economic decline in the post-Black Death Low Countries

16:40: Discussion

17:15: Drinks

  1. Tuesday 20th March, 10:30-12:30, R008

On Tuesday, Bruce Campbell will give a second lecture on: The Black Death: an enduring enigma.

Venue: UAntwerpen, City Campus, R008

How to attend?

Attendance of both seminar and lecture is free, but please register in advance by e-mail: tim.soens@uantwerpen.be 

The complete flyer can can be downloaded here.

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Vacature: promovendus voor project ‘Christine Mohrmann en de (katholieke) klassiekenreceptie’ (Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen)

De Faculteit Letteren van de Radboud Universiteit (Nijmegen) is op zoek naar een promovendus voor het project ‘Christine Mohrmann en de (katholieke) klassiekenreceptie’.

In dit vierjarige onderzoeksproject staat de persoon van classica Christine Mohrmann (1903-1988) centraal. Doel van dit wetenschappelijk onderzoek is het analyseren en beschrijven van het leven van Mohrmann tegen de achtergrond van de positie van vrouwelijke wetenschappers binnen de academische cultuur als geheel en het netwerk van classici in het bijzonder, de veranderlijke status van de studie der klassieken gedurende de twintigste eeuw en de wisselwerking van het vak met de veranderingen binnen het Nederlandse en internationale katholicisme.

Als promovendus analyseert u het nagelaten archief van Mohrmann, alsmede dat van de Radboud Universiteit en andere (katholieke) organisaties waarbinnen Mohrmann actief was. Tevens analyseert u de inhoud van haar vakpublicaties en de ontvangst daarvan in nationale en internationale vaktijdschriften en netwerken van classici, historici en theologen. U schrijft hierover een proefschrift dat zich tevens leent om te worden uitgegeven als lezenswaardige en toegankelijke Nederlandstalige biografie die het honderdjarig bestaan van de Radboud Universiteit in 2023 luister bijzet. Het onderzoeksproject kent derhalve een strikte deadline. Uw onderzoek ressorteert deels onder de afdeling Geschiedenis (i.h.b. cultuurgeschiedenis) en deels onder Algemene Cultuurwetenschappen (i.h.b. receptiegeschiedenis).

Solliciteren kan tot 4 maart 2018. Meer informatie over de vacature vindt u op deze website.

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Vacature: Geschiedenis van de spiritualiteit in de Nederlanden in de middeleeuwen en de vroegmoderne tijd (Ruusbroecgenootschap, Antwerpen)

Het onderzoeksinstituut Ruusbroecgenootschap van de Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, UAntwerpen heeft volgende deeltijdse (70 %) vacature: zelfstandig academisch personeel in het domein Geschiedenis van de spiritualiteit in de Nederlanden in de middeleeuwen en de vroegmoderne tijd. Solliciteren kan tot uiterlijk 2 april 2018.

De volledige vacature vindt u op deze website.

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Séminaires-conférences du Centre « Pratiques médiévales de l’écrit » de l’Université de Namur

Le centre de recherche « Pratiques médiévales de l’écrit » (institut de recherche PaTHs) de l’l’Université de Namur propose pour cette année 2018 une une nouvelle série de séminaires-conférences.

Le premier rendez-vous est fixé au 21 février prochain : Richard Sharpe, de l’Université d’Oxford viendra donner une conférence sur les chartes de la période anglo-normande en Angleterre et en Écosse. Les prochains rendez-vous sont à retrouver ici.

Les séances se tiendront à chaque fois de 16h à 18h, au local L34 (séminaire d’Histoire), de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres. Le centre de recherche PraME a été créé en 2009 à l’initiative des historiens médiévistes et des philologues romanistes de l’UNamur. Il réunit actuellement une vingtaine de chercheurs qui consacrent leurs travaux aux multiples facettes de l’activité d’écriture à travers l’Europe « latine » durant le Moyen Âge. L’un de ses objectifs principaux est de promouvoir les collaborations à tous les niveaux dans ce secteur de la médiévistique, grâce à des initiatives de coordination et de décloisonnement de la recherche. Cela passe notamment par l’organisation de séminaires, de colloques et d’ateliers de recherche interdisciplinaires. Plus d’infos : etienne.renard@unamur.be.

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The Medieval World at our Fingertips, Brepols Publishers

Graag vestigen we uw aandacht op het verschijnen van het boek The Medieval World at our Fingertips (Brepols Publishers). Aan de hand van een dertigtal verluchte manuscriptpagina’s biedt dit boek een fascinerende inkijk in de middeleeuwen. De begeleidende essays zijn van de hand van Christopher de Hamel, met een introductie door James Marrow. Meer informatie vindt u op de website van Brepols.

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Vierde Dag van de Medioneerlandistiek (1 juni 2018, Leiden)

Enkele weken geleden kondigden we de Vierde Dag van de Medioneerlandistiek aan, die zal plaatsvinden op 1 juni 2018 te Leiden. Het thema van de dag is Bold and Boundless en zal in het teken staan van de internationale dimensie van het vakgebied. Een langere themabeschrijving vindt u op de website van het Facebook-evenement. Het gedetailleerde programma van de dag kan u hier raadplegen.

De organisatoren verwelkomen graag iedereen die de studie van het Middelnederlands en de Middelnederlandse literatuur een warm hart toedraagt. Aanmelden kan u door een mailtje te sturen naar: y.a.a.van.damme@hum.leidenuniv.nl.

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CfP “New Directions in Medieval Religious history” Dartmouth College, USA, May 29-June 2, 2018

Applications are invited for the second annual Dartmouth Summer History Institute on “New Directions in Medieval Religious History.”  The aim of the Summer History Institute is to bring together the most promising young scholars working on medieval religious history to read and workshop pieces of their historical writing, as they embark on the transition from dissertation to book, in order to take stock of emerging considerations and approaches across the field.  We are interested in all aspects of religious history, including its links to political, social, cultural, and intellectual history.  Applicants should be in the process of completing their Ph.D. dissertation or in the early stages of revising the Ph.D. for publication as a book.  (Students finishing their Ph.D. dissertation in spring or summer of 2018 are encouraged to apply.)  Prior to the workshop, each participant will furnish a draft article or working dissertation/book chapter central to or exemplary of their larger historical intervention, which participants will discuss at the Institute in the company of invited senior scholars.  In addition to these workshop sessions on individual pieces of writing, the Institute will include a variety of fora (receptions, dinners, and lectures) to discuss theoretical and methodological issues.

Selected participants in the Institute will receive room and board as well as a subvention for travel up to $1000.  Submitted pieces should be in English (preferred), French, or German.  Participants should have a good command of spoken English.

To apply, send a CV and letter of application with an abstract of 1-2 paragraphs describing your project and the piece you intend to workshop, by March 1, 2018, to Professors Cecilia Gaposchkin and Walter Simons (Dartmouth College, Department of History) at Dartmouth.History.Institute@dartmouth.edu.

All inquiries and correspondence may be directed to the same address: Dartmouth.History.Institute@dartmouth.edu.

Dartmouth College is a private Ivy League university located in Hanover, New Hampshire.  It can be easily reached by bus from Boston, Massachusetts (about 2 hours); bus service from and to New York, NY, takes about 5 hours.  For an overview of events at the 2017 inaugural Dartmouth Summer Institute, on the theme of modern European Intellectual History, please visit http://sites.dartmouth.edu/historyinstitute2017/

The complete flyer of the Call for papers can be downloaded here.

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Workshop ‘Modern Europe meets Reform’, 12-13 April 2018 (Leeds)


Modern Europe meets Reform is a workshop that aims to investigate the development of historical writing about the medieval church across the period from the Reformation to the twentieth century. We hope this will bring together medievalists and modernists and create new areas for debate.

The workshop is part of a larger international project entitled Rethinking Reform 900-1150: Conceptualising Change in Medieval Religious Institutions, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. It brings together scholars from across Europe to focus on how changes in medieval churches were understood and explained in their own day and on how they have been reinterpreted in post-Reformation and especially post-Napoleonic historical writing.

The workshop is free to attend but places are limited and booking is essential. Refreshments will be served, including lunch on Friday. Book here to reserve your place.

A number of bursaries for research and taught postgraduate students are available to help towards travel and accommodation costs. The deadline for application for these is Monday 12 February 2018. Please contact Dr. Ceri Pitches for further details.

More information about the project, can be found on the flyer: Modern Europe meets Reform

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1 PhD ‘Prophylactic Healthcare and the Urban Public’ University of Amsterdam

The Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH), one of the six research schools which at the Faculty of Humanities carry out research under the aegis of the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research, currently has a vacant PhD position as part of the ERC-project Healthscaping, led by prof. G. Geltner

Project description

HealthScaping traces the development and impact of preventative healthcare policies, medical discourses and social and religious practices in the continent’s two most urbanized regions in the later Middle Ages, Italy and the Low Countries. The project taps numerous written, material and visual sources and archaeological data from several sites, and examines them also by critically engaging the insights of governmentality studies, cultural-spatial analysis and actor-network theory. A multidisciplinary team, also working in a Geographical Information Systems environment and generating innovative urban health maps, will recover earlier societies’ struggles with domestic and industrial waste, travel and labor hazards, food quality, and social and religious behaviors considered harmful or dangerous.

Within this framework, a PhD candidate proficient in Latin and the relevant vernacular/s will chart and analyse the dissemination of medical knowledge pertaining to prophylactic healthcare passed along several textual and visual conduits beyond the boundaries of traditional medical literature and in two distinct spheres. First, it will track the transmission of medical knowledge among the urban population – identifying medical arguments bearing upon the non-naturals (including quality of air and water, diet, evacuations, motion and rest), hygiene and the senses and their interpretation of physical and spiritual wellbeing in schoolrooms, from the pulpit as well as in urban households. Secondly, it will contextualize the dissemination of prophylactic knowledge and its application in normative sources regulating behaviour, for instance in municipal and guild statutes, regulations of brotherhoods and monastic regulae produced especially in cities in Italy and/or the Low Countries. Researching the interplay of arguments between medical knowledge, good citizenship and social hygiene in diverse behavioral scripts, this research will identify and study the specific urban milieus where medical knowledge was adapted and disseminated, thereby offering a unique insight into the levels of public health awareness and responses thereto, both of compliance and resistance, beyond academic environs.

The PhD candidate’s tasks will include:

  • completion and defence of a PhD thesis within 4 years;
  • writing two peer-reviewed scholarly articles in major journals;
  • contributing to the project database;
  • active participation in and organization of project activities.

Requirements

The successful applicant must have:

  • a completed Research MA or equivalent in medieval history or a related field in the Humanities;
  • knowledge of premodern health and urban history;
  • research experience in archives and manuscript libraries;
  • a thorough command of Latin and relevant vernaculars (Middle Dutch and/or Italian), excellent English and a working knowledge of pertinent modern languages, e.g. French, German, Italian, Spanish;
  • enthusiasm for collaborative, multidisciplinary research;
  • strong organizational skills.

Further information

For further information, please contact:

Appointment

The appointment will be for 30.4 hours per week (0.8 FTE) for a maximum period of four years at the Department of History, European Studies & Religious Studies of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. The research will be carried out under the aegis of ASH. The appointment is initially for a period of 16 months; contingent on satisfactory performance it will be extended by a maximum of 32 months. The intended starting date of the contract is 1 September 2018. The gross monthly salary (on a full-time basis) will range from €2,222 during the first year to €2,840 during the fourth year, in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities.

Job application

Applications should include the following information, in one PDF file (not zipped):

  • a letter of motivation;
  • a full academic CV;
  • a writing sample of c. 10.000 words (the equivalent of an article or book chapter);
  • the names and contact details of two referees who may be approached by the selection committee.

Applicants must have completed their RMA before the start of this PhD project.

Please submit your complete application no later than 15 February 2018 to solliciteren2018-FGW@uva.nl.

Only complete applications submitted as one PDF file to this email address will be considered.

Please state vacancy number 18-025 in the subject line of your application.

Interviews will take place in the first two weeks of April. For candidates living abroad interviews may be held via Skype. #LI-DNP

More information can be found at this link.

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Vacature: Medewerker Publieksbemiddeling Collectie Bulskampveld

Het Centrum Agrarische Geschiedenis (CAG) is op zoek naar een dynamische en veelzijdige Medewerker Publieksbemiddeling voor de Collectie Bulskampveld. Hij/zij is verantwoordelijk voor het coördineren en realiseren van de ontsluitings- en publieksactiviteiten die CAG wenst op te zetten rond en met de Collectie Bulskampveld. De medewerker wordt in zijn/haar taken bijgestaan door de Collectiebeheerder Collectie Bulskampveld, de coördinator en andere stafmedewerkers van CAG.

Meer informatie over deze vacature vindt u via deze link.