Thursday, 12/09/2019
11:00 – 12:30 Visit Saint Peter‘s Abbey
I Political Culture
14:00 – 14:30 Registration, Introduction
14:30 - 15:00
Frederik Buylaert (Ghent), Framing Lay Lordship in Late Medieval Flanders, England, and France
15:00 – 16:00
Arie van Steensel (Groningen), Crossing boundaries: clerical and lay nobles in late medieval Zeeland
16:00 – 16:30 Discussion
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee
17:00 – 17:30
Kristjan Kaljusaar (Tartu), Ecclesiastical princes and lay vassals on a Catholic frontier - feudal strategies of Livonian bishops in the thirteenth century
17:30 – 17:45 Discussion
19:00 Dinner
Friday, 13/09/2019
9:30 – 10:00
Mihkel Mäesalu (Tartu), The inclusion of the lay elite in elections and resignations of the Bishop of Tartu in the middle of the 15th Century
10:00 – 10:30
Madis Maasing (Tartu), Osilian nobility at the end of Medieval Times – a lay elite group trying to dominate over clerical administration?
10:30 – 11:00 Discussion
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
II Devotional Practice
11:30 – 12:00
Henrike Manuwald (Göttingen), vita mixta as a model for lay elites? The German versions of De contemplatione et vita activa by Henricus de Bitterfeld
12:00 – 12:30
Stina Fallberg Sundmark (Uppsala), Lay Elites’ Personal Belongings as Instruments of Devotion in the Late Middle Ages
12:30 – 13:00 Discussion
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Visit Gravensteen
III Literary Culture
15:30 – 16:00
Daniel Eder (Göttingen), Forming a new kind of army. Concepts of 'lay culture' in medieval legends of Saint Ursula and her eleven thousand virgins
16:00 – 16:30
Claudia Wittig (Ghent), Lay Elites as Readers and Owners of Educational Manuscripts in France and the Empire in the 13th Century
16:30 – 17:00 Discussion
17:00 – 18:00
Keynote: Sabrina Corbellini (Groningen), Crossing the Lay-Religious Divide: Spatial Approaches to Religious Literacies in Late Medieval Europe
18:00 – 19:00 Wine Reception
19:30 Dinner
Saturday, 14/09/2019
9:30 – 10:00
Jan Dumolyn (Ghent), Culture and Literacy of Craft Guilds in Late Medieval Flanders
10:00 – 10:30
Brianne Dolce (Ghent/Yale), Ways of Being: Differentiating the Laity in the Confraternity of Jongleurs and Bourgeois of Arras
10:30 – 11:00 Discussion
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
11:30 – 12:15
Round Table: Lay Culture: Models, Intersections, Innovations
12:15 – 12:30 Wrap-up