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Frühmittelalterliche Mobilität

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Internationale Tagung – International conference:

Frühmittelalterliche Mobilität – Interdisziplinäre Zugänge
Early medieval mobility – Interdisciplinary approaches

Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 28–30. September 2022

Organisation: Dr. Laury Sarti, Historisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Kontakt: laury.sarti@geschichte.uni-freiburg.de

Das vormoderne Reisen war mit vielerlei Fragen und Ungewissheiten verbunden, ähnlich wie auch jeder Versuch, die frühmittelalterliche Mobilität aus heutiger Sicht zu untersuchen. Im September 2022 wird im Rahmen der Akademiekonferenzen 2022 der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften eine Tagung stattfinden, die sich zum Ziel setzt, im interdisziplinären Austausch neue Zugänge und Methoden zur Untersuchung frühmittelalterlicher Mobilität zu ergründen indem Potential und Grenzen möglicher Herangehensweisen diskutiert werden sollen. Hierbei kommen sowohl historische (Netzwerkanalyse, Prosopographie) und archäologische (Grabbefundanalyse, Landschaftsarchäologie) als auch naturwissenschaftliche Methoden (historischen Geologie, digitale Landschafts– und Wegerekonstruktion, Analyse von Strontium Isotopen, Multi–isotopische Untersuchungen, DNA–Analyse, Paläoklimatologie) zur Sprache. Wie lassen sich die Rahmenbedingungen von Mobilität und das Wissen das Reisenden zur Verfügung stand erschließen? Inwiefern lassen sich die Motive und Notwendigkeiten hinter der Mobilität durch Netzwerkanalysen besser nachvollziehen und ergänzen? Welche Möglichkeiten bieten naturwissenschaftliche Herangehensweisen und die anhand modernster Methoden erworbenen Daten? Ein besseres Verständnis für die Rahmenbedingungen frühmittelalterlicher Mobilität ermöglich es nicht zuletzt die individuellen sowie kollektiven Leistungen, die mit jeder Form des Austauschs oder Konnektivität verbunden war, in ihrem Gesamtkontext zu erfassen.
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Premodern travel was associated with all sorts of questions and uncertainties, just like any attempt to examine early medieval mobility from today’s perspective. In September 2022, a conference will be held at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities which intends to explore new approaches and methods for investigating early medieval mobility from an interdisciplinary perspective and by discussing the potential and limits of possible new approaches. The aim is to discuss historical (network analysis, prosopography), archaeological (grave analysis, landscape archeology) as well as methods related to the natural sciences (historical geology, digital landscape and path reconstruction, analysis of strontium isotopes, multi–isotopic studies, DNA analysis, paleo–climatology). What means do we have to study the conditions of mobility and the knowledge of travelers? How do network analyses allow us to study the motives and necessities behind mobility? What possibilities do scientific approaches and the data acquired using related methods and means offer? A better understanding of the conditions of early medieval mobility should allow us to appreciate more fully the individual and collective achievements that were associated with every form of early medieval exchange or connectivity.

PROVISIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

28th September 2022
14:00–14:30 Laury SARTI (Freiburg), Welcome and introduction

14:30–16:30 Section I: Travel and Exchange
Marco CRISTINI (Tübingen), Exotic gifts and learned envoys. Sixth–century cultural diplomacy on the move
Shigeto KIKUCHI (Tokyo), Motivations for travels in the Carolingian age
Christoph MAUNTEL (Tübingen), Waiting. On a hitherto neglected dimension of early medieval mobility

17:00–19:00 Section II: Mobility in the material evidence
Mateusz FAFINSKI (Berlin/Tübingen), The textual infrastructure of mobility in the post–Roman west. Charters, letters, manuscripts
Tobias GÄRTNER (Halle), Keramik und Migration im frühen Mittelalter. Interpretationsversuche der Archäologie
Orsolya HEINRICH–TAMASKA (Leipzig), Mobilität von Objekten? Archäologische Zugänge am Beispiel der frühmittelalterlichen Fundkomplexe von Kunbábony und Malaja Pereščepina

29th September 2022
8:30–10:30 Section III: Travel Landscape and Climate
Rüdiger GLASER (Freiburg), Klimatische Reisebedingungen im Mittelalter
Pierre FÜTTERER (Magdeburg): GIS als Mittel zur Analyse mittelalterlicher Raumstrukturen
Wouter VERSCHOOF–VAN DER VAART (Leiden), Using automated detection and citizen science to reconstruct medieval travel landscapes

11:00–12:30 Section IV: Infrastructure and digital Reconstruction
Irmela HERZOG (Bonn), Issues in reconstructing past movement patterns based on known old roads
Anna SWIEDER (Halle), Vergessene Pfade – Das Potenzial von LiDAR–Daten zur Erfassung alter Straßen und Wege in mittelalterlichen Kulturlandschaften

14:30–16:00 Section V: Interregional mobility and network
Michel SUMMER (Dublin), The mobility of clerics between Ireland, Britain and Francia (c. 640–750). Preconditions, networks, strategies

Johannes PREISER–KAPELLER (Vienna), Digital approaches towards mobility, migration and connectivity across medieval Afro–Eurasia. Networks, routes, circulations

16:30–18:00 Section VI: Local mobility and society
Abel LORENZO–RODRÍGUEZ (Santiago de Compostela), South by northwest. Short– distance exile and outlaws in Iberia during the early Middle Ages
Lucas MCMAHON (Princeton), Holding the lynchpin of Byzantine Italy. GIS approaches to local military mobility in the Duchy of Perugia

30th September 2022
08:30–10:00 Section VII: Mobility and prosopography
Laury SARTI (Freiburg/Heidelberg), Mobility as attested by the letters of the future Pope Gerbert of Aurillac
Russell Ó RÍAGÁIN (Belfast), Shifting patterns of mobility in the insular Scandinavian diaspora, c. AD 790–1310.

10:30–12:00 Section VIII: Sea voyages and orientation
Jan BILL (Oslo), Wikingerreisen auf hoher See und auf den Flüssen
Bart HOLTERMAN (Göttingen), Considerations about the mapping of sea routes for the premodern street map Viabundus (1350–1650)

12:15–12:45 Final discussion

Rome 1450

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Rome 1450. Capgrave’s Jubilee Guide : The Solace of Pilgrimes, éd. Peter J. Lucas, Turnhout, Brepols, coll. “Textes vernaculaires du Moyen Âge”, 2021.

Présentation:

A new edition, with modern English translation, of John Capgrave’s Solace of Pilgrimes, the ‘most ambitious description of Rome in the Middle Ages’.

The scene is Rome in the fifteenth century, Golden Rome, a magnet drawing pilgrims by its architectural attractions and the magnitude of its religious importance as the mother of faith. The Austin friar John Capgrave attended Rome for the Jubilee in 1450, including the Lenten stations, and his Solaceof Pilgrimes, intended as a guide for subsequent pilgrims, was written up following the author’s own pilgrimage. In three parts it covers the ancient monuments, the seven principal churches and the Lenten stations, and other churches of note, especially those dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The work has been described as the most ambitious description of Rome in Middle English. The present edition offers a new Text based on a transcription of the author’s holograph manuscript. Parallel with the Text there is a modern English Translation. The illustrations, mostly from a period slightly later than the 1450 Jubilee, aim to give some visual clue as to what Capgrave saw. There is a full account of the multiple sources that he used, most of which is the product of new research. Following the Text there is a Commentary that aims to provide some background information about the buildings and monuments that Capgrave focuses on, and to explain and illuminate any difficulties or points of interest in the Text. Capgrave is an omni-present guide leading us towards what he considered an appropriate interpretation of the classical past as a foundation for the Christian present, which built on it and surpassed it.