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Spatiality and Networks

Appel à contribution:

Spatiality and Networks in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Call for Papers: For the meeting of the Working Group “Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages” (AGSFM) at the joint conference of MOVA, WSVA and NWVA from September 8 to 11, 2025 in Frankfurt/Oder

From the North Sea to the Mediterranean, from the Atlantic to the Black Sea: The spatial distribution of late Roman and early medieval material culture demonstrates the era’s long-distance human connections.

Meeting on “Spatiality and Networks in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages” – submission until April 30, 2025.

New finds, as well as methodological and theoretical developments, allow us to analyse them from a new perspective.

For this year’s AGSFM meeting we invite you to reflect on networks and perspectives of network analysis in late Roman and early medieval studies.
We will focus on the following topics:

  • Regional visualizations based on individual studies
  • Spatial and temporal high-resolution information on ‚key regions‘
  • Individual studies, e.g. household archaeology (spatial distributions within small areas and their relationships)
  • Areas of communication, e.g. exchange and trade networks, symbols, burial practices, artifacts and their components
  • Overlapping spatial concepts, their entanglements and communication ranges
  • Social meanings and construction of space
  • Mental mapping and actor-related spatial perception, e.g. of distances
  • Mobility, especially of groups of people and animals; mobility and social (e.g. family) structures
  • Political and social order as a basis for spatial understanding
  • Relationships between identity and space
  • Networks of resources and activities
  • “Network” as a metaphor and research tool
  • The use and transformation of maps and mappings in contemporary research.

On September 8 and 9 2025, this year’s meeting of the Working Group for Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (AGSFM) will give space to these questions. The meeting will be a forum to present new results or projects on these topics. We also aim to identify and discuss related challenges, problems and questions.

We welcome contributions in German and English. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. Proposals for papers (400-600 characters) should be submitted to a.flueckiger@unibas.ch by April 30, 2025.

Please note that the working group cannot cover travel or accommodation costs. Participants are therefore kindly asked to cover their own expenses and to register for the conference.

Organisation:  
Dr. Michaela Helmbrecht, Dr. Christoph Lobinger, Valerie Palmowski M. A.,
Dr. Roland Prien, Mag. Dr. Bendeguz Tobias (advisory board), Dr. Anna Flückiger (speaker)

Voyages réels et imaginaires

Vient de paraître:

Le Moyen Français – 94 (2024)

Voyages réels et imaginaires

Actes du VIIIe colloque de l’AIEMF (Lafayette College, 2021)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Les voyages maritimes dans les Miracles de Nostre Dame de Jean le Conte
Elisabetta Barale

Gender and Travel in Octovien de Saint-Gelais’ XXI Epistres d’Ovide. Textual and Visual Translations of Departures
Cynthia J. Brown

The 1st-Person Voice of the Traveller in Marco Polo and John Mandeville
Kevin Brownlee

Quand le Huon en prose révise l’image du monde et les moyens de le parcourir
Caroline Cazanave

Le monde des héros-voyageurs au XVe siècle. Toponymie, itinéraires et description géographique dans l’Ovide moralisé en prose (version brugeoise)
Stefania Cerrito

Deux voyages en un. Octovien de Saint-Gelais et le problème du bivium
François Cornilliat

Les « voyages » des Rhétoriqueurs. Un genre entre narratio et laudatio
Ellen Delvallée

Quelques problèmes relatifs à la description des realia dans les récits de voyage (1490-1550)
Marie-Christine Gomez-Géraud

Ascending the Mountain in Antoine de La Sale’s Paradis de la Reine Sibylle The Mental Pilgrimage at the Heart of a Secular Text
S.C. Kaplan

Naufrages et captures par des pirates. Les tourmentes et fortunes de mer dans la littérature romanesque bourguignonne du XVe siècle
Matthieu Marchal

La Nef des folz (1497) de Pierre Rivière. Quand le voyage est objet de méfiance
Anne-Laure Metzger-Rambach

La Fleur des estoires de la terre d’Orient illustrée. Étude de miniatures dans le manuscrit Paris, BnF, fr. 2810
Priscilla Mourgues

La langue de l’Autre dans le Voyage d’Outremer de Bertrandon de la Broquière
Sandra Otte

« Chacun appelle barbarie ce qui n’est pas de son usage ». Voyage, altérité et satire dans la première Renaissance en France
Bernd Renner

Latin Timur

Vient de paraître:

Geoffrey Goddard, Latin Timur. Representing a Central Asia Emir in Fifteenth-Century Europe, Rome, Istituto per l’Oriente C. A. Nallino, 2025, 419 p.

Cette publication est issue d’une thèse de doctorat, soutenue en décembre 2023, en cotutelle entre l’Université d’Aix-Marseille et l’Université de Tübingen.

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