Words. Les mots. 13th annual symposium of the International Medieval Society, Paris

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Words. Les mots. 13th annual symposium of the International Medieval Society, Paris

Veranstalter
International Medieval Society, Paris
Veranstaltungsort
Centre Malher. 9 rue Malher, 75004 Paris
Ort
Paris
Land
France
Vom - Bis
30.06.2016 - 02.07.2016
Website
http://www.ims-paris.org/
Von
Julian Führer

For its 13th Annual Symposium to be held in Paris, the International Medieval Society looks at the theme of Words in the Middle Ages. The digital humanities, while altering the landscape of Medieval Studies as a whole, have most importantly overhauled the concept, appearance, and analysis of words and texts. Between the increasing use of paperless media forms and the rise in the number of digital collections, medievalists are seeking to adapt to these new means of producing knowledge about the Middle Ages. At the same time, scholars in this field are also trying to outline the methodological and historical issues that affect the study of words, which now simultaneously exist in the form of primary sources, codices, rolls, charters and inscriptions, digitally reproduced images, and the statistical and lexicographical data made possible by storage platforms and analytical tools.

In parallel with the digital humanities, the 13th Annual IMS Symposium on WORDS aims to return to words themselves and to probe the intellectual, technical and aesthetic principles that underpin their use and social function in medieval graphical practices. By analysing the material and symbolic properties of a particular medium; the conditions in which texts become signs; and scribal expertise, this symposium will address questions that initially seem simple yet which define the very foundations of medieval written culture. What is a word? What are its components? How does it appear in a given medium? What is the relationship between word and text, word and letter, word and medium, word and reader? In a Middle Ages forever torn between economic and extravagant language, what is the status of the word and what kind of elements – visual or acoustic, linguistic or extralinguistic – does it contain?

Programm

Jeudi 30 Juin / Thursday June 30th

9:00-9:30 Registration / inscriptions

9:30-9:45 Welcome and introduction

9:45-11:15 Keynote
Geoffrey Koziol (Berkeley)
From mise en page to mise en scène in West Frankish royal diplomas

11:15-11:30 Break / Pause café

11:30-13:00 Session 1: Pages et mises en page - Page and Layout

Dominique Stutzmann (IRHT)
Words as graphic and linguistic structures: word spacing in psalm 101 Domine exaudi orationem meam (11th – 15th c.)
Adrian R. Papahagi (Cluj)
Lire la Consolation de Philosophie du IXe au XIe siècle
Anne Rauner (Strasbourg)
Surface prévue, surface utilisée : gérer la page d’un « livre vivant ». L’exemple des obituaires paroissiaux du diocèse de Strasbourg à la fin du Moyen Âge

Lunch / pause déjeuner
13:00–14:30

14:30-16:00 Session 2: La matière des mots –The Materiality of Words

Kristine Tanton (Univ. of Southern California)
The Material Word and Architectural Space: The Inscribed Capital in French Romanesque Monasteries
Caroline Schärli (Basel)
Room-Embracing Monumental Inscriptions in Early Byzantine and Carolingian Sacral Buildings
Jean-Marie Guillouët (Nantes)
L’écrit monumental comme technologie de l’enchantement : épigraphie et virtuosité technique au dernier siècle du Moyen Âge

16:00-16:30 Break / Pause café

16:30-18:00 Session 3: Dire et signifier - Saying and Meaning

Jennifer Feltman (Univ. of West Florida)
From Priest to Confessor: A Parisian Origin for the New Terminology
Arthur R. Westwell (Cambridge)
Correction of Liturgical Words, and Words of Liturgical Correctio: Textuality, Gesture and Meaning in the Ordines Romani
Cory C. Hitt (St Andrews)
On seignier / Enseignier: Wordplay in Chrétien de Troyes’ Le Roman de Perceval

19:30 Dîner / Dinner, remise du prix de l’IMS-Paris 2015

Vendredi 1er juillet/ Friday July 1st

9:30-11:00 Session 4: Mots littéraires - Literary words

Anne Levitsky (Columbia University)
‘Chansos, vai’: The Personification of Song in the Troubadour Tornada
Christine McWebb (Waterloo)
Lady Nature in Word and Image in Jean de Meun’s Roman de la Rose
Lucas G. Wood (Bloomington)
Origines du texte et autorité de la parole dans le Joseph de Robert de Boron

11:00-11.30 Break / Pause café

11:30-12:30 Session 5: Les mots contre la pierre – Written on Stone

Francisco de Asís García García (Madrid)
Création artistique et épigraphie monumentale à l’époque romane : publicité, sacralité et réforme dans l’espace aragonais
Jörg Widmaier (Tübingen)
Between written and spoken words – Use and function of inscriptions on medieval baptismal fonts

12:30 – 15:00 Lunch / pause déjeuner
Board meeting

15:00-17:30 Visite / visit – Medieval Paris

Samedi 2 juillet / Saturday July 2nd

9:00-10:30 Keynote
Eric Palazzo (Poitiers)
Forme, image, mot: les initiales "O" du sacramentaire de Gellone

10:30-11:00 Break / Pause café

11:00-13:00 Session 6: De la lettre aux mots - From letters to words

Amanda M. Nerbovig (Boulder)
The Crusader’s Vow: When Words Become Text
Emma O’Loughlin Bérat (Columbia)
Writing the Landscape in the Vies of Audrée, Osith and Modwenne
Megan C. McNamee (Ann Arbor)
The Ambiguous Alphabet: Letters as Numbers c. 1000
Eran Viezel (Ben Gurion University)
The Divine Content and the Words of Moses: R. Abraham Ibn Ezra on Moses’ Role in Writing the Torah

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch / pause déjeuner

14:30-15:30 Assemblée générale

15:30-16:00 Break

16:00-17:30 Session 7: Mots et images - Words and Images

Katja Airaksinen-Monier (IRHT)
Artists’ alphabet: from letter-strings and pseudo-writing to meaningful words
Estelle Ingrand-Varenne (Poitiers)
Nommer, couper et incorporer
Vera-Simone Schulz (Florence)
Polyglossy, Xenography, and the Aesthetics of Pseudo-Script ‘Orientalizing’ Inscriptions in Late Medieval Italian Painting

17:30 Closing comments

19:30 Closing apéritif

Kontakt

Julian Führer

Historisches Seminar
Karl Schmid-Strasse 4, CH-8006 Zürich

julian.fuehrer@access.uzh.ch

http://www.ims-paris.org/