Medieval Cities
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Program in Medieval Studies, Brown Univ.
Organizer Name
Mercedes Vaquero
Organizer Affiliation
Brown Univ.
Presider Name
Mercedes Vaquero
Paper Title 1
School and the City: The Socio-Economic Role of Education in Medieval French Cities
Presenter 1 Name
Sarah B. Lynch
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Angelo State Univ.
Paper Title 2
The Dream City Come True in Monsterland: Herzog Ernst and the Imagination of the Ideal City
Presenter 2 Name
Albrecht Classen
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Arizona
Paper Title 3
The Herbalists, the Cathedral, and Toledo's Changing Cityscape
Presenter 3 Name
Patrick Harris
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Independent Scholar
Start Date
9-5-2019 3:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1245
Description
This open session welcomes papers that focus on histories of cities, their making, transformation, or disappearance, through the lens of the example of a medieval city in any geographical location between 400-1500 CE, and from any relevant academic discipline. We invite proposals on topics such as: the end of ancient cities; religious beliefs, conflict, and tolerance; the city and its margins; citizens and foreigners; the city as metaphor; sex (and romance) and the city. The session will allow the maximum flexibility both in the forms and content of the discussion, and it has no disciplinary limits.
Rationale: This session (and our “Medieval Cities” course at Brown University) tries to investigate questions such as: where did our modern cities come from? What is the role of bureaucracy, trade, craft-production, book culture. What is the role of ecclesiastical institutions and schools? How does the medieval city still live in modernity? How did the encounter/clash of people and civilizations manifest itself in medieval cities? We hope to foster a discussion about the continuities or discontinuities and disruptions that have conditioned the medieval cities under study. As an interdisciplinary session, with a broad chronological limit and geography, we expect new intellectual comparative perspectives. Mercedes Vaquero
Medieval Cities
Schneider 1245
This open session welcomes papers that focus on histories of cities, their making, transformation, or disappearance, through the lens of the example of a medieval city in any geographical location between 400-1500 CE, and from any relevant academic discipline. We invite proposals on topics such as: the end of ancient cities; religious beliefs, conflict, and tolerance; the city and its margins; citizens and foreigners; the city as metaphor; sex (and romance) and the city. The session will allow the maximum flexibility both in the forms and content of the discussion, and it has no disciplinary limits.
Rationale: This session (and our “Medieval Cities” course at Brown University) tries to investigate questions such as: where did our modern cities come from? What is the role of bureaucracy, trade, craft-production, book culture. What is the role of ecclesiastical institutions and schools? How does the medieval city still live in modernity? How did the encounter/clash of people and civilizations manifest itself in medieval cities? We hope to foster a discussion about the continuities or discontinuities and disruptions that have conditioned the medieval cities under study. As an interdisciplinary session, with a broad chronological limit and geography, we expect new intellectual comparative perspectives. Mercedes Vaquero