Constantin et la Gaule

Autour de la vision de Grand

(310-2010)

colloque

organisé à l'occasion du mille sept centième anniversaire

de la vision de Constantin Ier à Grand

les mercredi 6 et jeudi 7 octobre

à Domrémy-la-Pucelle (88)

(Centre Johannique)

L'année 2010 marque le mille sept centième anniversaire de la "vision païenne" de Constantin, épisode que Camille Jullian, le grand historien de la Gaule, proposait de situer à Grand.

          En cette occasion, un colloque international est organisé par l'EA 1132 HISCANT-MA de l'Université Nancy 2,  intitulé Constantin et la Gaule (entendue ici au sens large, augmentée de la Bretagne, gouvernée par Constantin dès les premiers temps de son règne, ainsi que de la péninsule ibérique, qu’il enlève à Maxence dès 310).

          Si l’on voit surtout en Constantin l’homme du Pont-Milvius et le fondateur de Constantinople, les années gauloises n’en constituent pas moins une période importante de son règne. La Gaule, en effet, constitue le cœur du territoire dirigé par son père Constance Chlore jusqu’à sa mort, le cœur du territoire dirigé par Constantin au début de son propre règne et pendant plus d'une décennie. C'est pourquoi il a été choisi, en adoptant  un point de vue très inhabituel, de mettre l'accent sur les liens de Constantin avec la Gaule

 En 305, Constantin rejoint son père. Le 25 juillet 306, ce dernier meurt et Constantin, contrevenant aux règles de succession inaugurées par Dioclétien, lui succède. De 306 à 312, il règne sur la Gaule et celle-ci constitue le fondement de son pouvoir en même temps que le lieu où il s’exerce. Après 312, l’horizon de Constantin s’élargit progressivement, puisqu’il prend le contrôle de l’Italie et de l’Afrique du Nord. En 316 (ou en 314), après une guerre victorieuse contre Licinius, il s’empare des diocèses de Pannonie et de Macédoine, et en 324 enfin, il devient le seul maître de l’Empire. Mais on constate qu'il retourne en Gaule dès le printemps 313, qu'il semble ne pas la quitter jusqu'au printemps 315 (alors qu'il est maintenant maître de tout l'Occident), et qu'il y fait encore deux séjours, en 316 puis encore en 328.

Le colloque examinera donc les liens existant entre Constantin et la Gaule : l’œuvre de Constantin en Gaule, l’influence de cette période dès lors que Constantin quitte la Gaule, son évolution religieuse durant ces années, les liens que garde Constantin avec la région, la place des Gaulois dans son entourage, la politique gauloise de Constantin... Durant ces deux journées, la réflexion s’organisera autour de trois axes

  

EA 1132 HISCANT-MA

Comité d'organisation et comité scientifique :

 

Laurent Guichard                Laurent.Guichard@univ-nancy2.fr

Maître de conférences en Histoire romaine (Université Nancy 2)

                                    

Andreas Gutsfeld                Andreas.Gutsfeld@univ-nancy2.fr

Professeur d'Histoire romaine (Université Nancy 2)

                                    

François Richard                 Francois.Richard@univ-nancy2.fr

Professeur honoraire d'Histoire romaine (Université Nancy 2)

 Constantin et la Gaule

Autour de la vision de Grand

(310-2010)

Les trois axes du colloque

1. Dans un premier temps, il sera question de Grand et de la vision païenne de Constantin. Après avoir présenté le site aux IIIe et IVe siècles, on examinera l’hypothèse de Jullian et la question toujours pendante de la localisation de la vision. L’épiphanie apollinienne sera envisagée tant du point de vue de l’expérience religieuse personnelle que du point de vue politique (qu’il s’agisse à proprement parler de politique religieuse ou de l’expression d’une idée ou d’une réalité politiques en des termes religieux). Seront donc examinés également, la politique et le parcours religieux de l’empereur néo-flavien, ainsi que les diverses nuances de sa théologie politique –continuations des conceptions tétrarchiques, présence de divinités plus spécifiquement liées à la Gaule, culte solaire– jusqu’à sa conversion au christianisme.

2. Le deuxième axe de réflexion concerne la politique gauloise de Constantin, dans ses différentes dimensions : il sera ainsi question de sa politique en Gaule (comment administre-t-il son domaine ? Peut-on découvrir dans sa politique gauloise les prodromes de sa politique impériale ?) et de sa politique pour la Gaule, dès lors qu’il s’en éloigne durablement, après 316. On s’intéressera également à sa politique générale, dans les années 306-316, alors que la Gaule constitue le centre de son domaine et l’assise principale de son pouvoir. Comment Constantin parvient-il à se maintenir au pouvoir, quelles relations entretient-il avec ses collègues et ses rivaux ? Comment parvient-il finalement à l’emporter, notamment en s’emparant de l’Italie, là où Sévère et Galère avaient échoué ?

            3. Le troisième axe de réflexion examinera les relations de Constantin avec les Gaulois. On abordera ainsi les réactions à sa politique et les honneurs qui lui sont rendus, notamment par le biais des panégyriques et des inscriptions. Enfin, on étudiera la place des Gaulois, civils ou militaires, dans l’entourage de Constantin (qu’il s’agisse d’individus originaires de ces territoires ou de personnages appartenant à son entourage durant cette période 306-316, ou à celui de son père). On s’interrogera également sur la place des évêques gaulois dans l’entourage constantinien, sur leur influence et sur leur rôle dans les années qui suivent (ou précèdent !) la bataille du Pont-Milvius. Dans quelle mesure jouent-ils un rôle dans la conversion impériale, puis dans l’orientation donnée aux relations entre l’Eglise et l’Etat ? Dans un domaine où nouveautés et évolutions sont le plus souvent venues de la pars orientalis, l’épiscopat gaulois viendrait alors jouer un rôle inhabituel et quelque peu méconnu.

Appel à communications :

Les propositions de communication doivent comporter le titre de la communication et un résumé de 1500 signes maximum. Elles doivent être adressées  au Comité scientifique du colloque Constantin et la Gaule par courriel à l'adresse suivante : 

laurent.guichard@univ-nancy2.fr

Date limite de retour des propositions :

30 mai 2010

Events & Conferences

Mediaevalia at the Lilly Library

Lectures and Workshops given by Falk Eisermann, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

Monday, April 26, 2010 at 9:30 A.M. & 2:30 P.M.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 5:00 P.M.
The Lilly Library (1200 East 7th Street)

The speaker for this year's Mediaevalia at the Lilly (April 26–27) will be Dr. Falk Eisermann, director of the Union Catalogue of Incunabula (Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke) at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.
On Monday, April 26th, Dr. Eisermann will conduct two mini-workshops on how to describe incunables in the Internet Age and on how to work with scholarly research facilities for 15th-century printing available on the internet. The workshops also will present opportunities to work with both original source materials as well as electronic resources. The workshops will be in held in English from 9:30 A.M. to 12:30 P.M., and in German from 2:30 P.M. to 5:30 P.M. The number of participants is limited. Enroll by sending an e-mail to the organizers: Cherry Williams and Hildegard E. Keller.
On Tuesday, April 27th at 5:00 P.M., Dr. Eisermann will give a public lecture, to be held at the Lilly Library. His topic will be: "Secrets of Success: Printers, Patrons, and Audiences in 15th Century Leipzig." A reception will follow the lecture.
The series Mediaevalia at the Lilly Library (directed by Cherry Williams, curator of manuscripts at the Lilly, and Professor Hildegard E. Keller, Department for Germanic Studies) aims to both better exploit and publicize the collection by bringing in established scholars and experts for a lecture and a workshop with hands-on-approach for students and faculty. The series is sponsored by the Medieval Studies Institute and the Lilly Library. In seeking to combine lectures with workshops, our goal is to make abstract ideas, as presented in the classroom, concrete by confronting students with the intractable nature of sources and giving them some sense of just how much can be gleaned from handwriting, type, parchment, paper, watermarks, title pages, musical notation, format, decoration, in short, all material aspects of the book over the course of the period stretching from Late Antiquity to the Reformation, i.e., comprehending at the outset the transition from roll to codex and, at the end, the shift from manuscript to print.
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Urban Allegories: Walter Benjamin and Medieval Temporalities

A lecture by Ethan Knapp, Associate Professor of English at the Ohio State University

Friday, January 29, 2010 at 4:30 P.M.
State Room East, Indiana Memorial Union (900 East 7th Street)

This talk revisits the often disembodied history of medieval allegory by returning to Walter Benjamin's famous analysis of the particular modernity of Baudelaire's urban lyricism. Rather than privileging Benjamin's late essay, "On Some Motifs in Baudelaire," which presents a stark sense of the alterity of the modern, we might instead consider his earlier, and richer, treatment in the Arcades project, a treatment that draws on a persistent parallel between Baudelaire and Dante in order to construct a modernity that cannot be read as a simple chron- ological proposition. The talk will then turn to specific examples of late medieval English allegory in Hoccleve, Langland, and Gower.
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The Man with the Pale Face, the Relic, and Du Fay's Missa Se la face ay pale

A lecture by Anne Walters Robertson, Claire Dux Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities, University of Chicago

Monday, October 19, 2009 at 4:15 P.M.
Ford-Crawford Hall (Simon Building, 200 S. Jordan Ave.)

Professor Anne Walters Robertson writes on subjects ranging from the plainchant of the early church to the Latin and vernacular polyphony of the late middle ages. In her work, liturgical and secular music, and often the interactions of the two, mirror theological and courtly ideas and shape the development of medieval spirituality and personal devotion, architecture, institutional identity, and politics. Her research on fourteenth-century polyphony points to the fundamental roles of local musical dialect in understanding Philippe de Vitry's life and music, and of mystical theology in illuminating the compositions of Guillaume de Machaut. More recently, she has studied the symbolic and folkloric aspects of the seminal masses and motets of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
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Little Nothings: "The Squire's Tale" and the Ambition of Gadgets

A lecture by Prof. Patricia Clare Ingham, Indiana University

Monday, September 21, 2009 at 4:00 P.M.
Indiana Memorial Union, State Room West

Despite advancements in architecture, optics, philosophy, literature, music, and mechanics, the Middle Ages remains more often associated with conservation than it is with innovation. This paper, part of a larger book-length study of the meaning and reach of medieval accounts of novelty, analyzes one telling example of the altogether ambivalent discourse of the medieval "newfangled." Geoffrey Chaucer's "Squire's Tale," I argue, cross-cuts a fascination with novel technological gadgetry with the fascinations of impossible love, raising for us the promise and problem prompted by wonder in the new and unusual.
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Course and Workshop at CEU

Monasticism and Hagiography in Late Antiquity

Basic information

Level: 

Master's

CEU code: 

MS 5299

CEU credits: 

2

ECTS credits: 

4

Academic year: 

2009/2010

Semester: 

Winter

Start and end dates: 

11 Jan 2010 - 31 Mar 2010

CEU Information

CEU Instructor(s): 

Marianne Sághy

Course description

Brief course description: 

This seminar introduces students to recent scholarship and critical theory concerning the ascetic movement and its literary output. How did different communities define and institutionalize holiness? How did the charismatic ideal of holy man came to be appropriated by a Christian official, the bishop? The unveiling of hagiographical texts will helps us discover the functions of the saints and of their cult in various Christian communities.

Learning Outcomes: 

Familiarity with the sources, with hagiographic discourse and with the theoretical models of the social function of asceticism. Christian hagiography is a traditionalist genre constantly rewriting its own foundational discourses, therefore the understanding of the basic principles of textual interpretation and hagiographic research offers the key for the study of the entire literary genre from late antiquity to our own times. Students will learn how to use spiritual literature as an historical source, how to use critical theory in the interpretation of hagiographical texts, how to distinguish between rhetorics and propaganda, how to analyze the authorial intentions informing the text and how to read hagiography as a manifesto of social and spiritual ideals.

Assessment : 

Oral presentation of a chosen topic (50%), active participation in class (50%).

1., The Holy Man in Action
 Athanasius of Alexandria, „Life of St. Antony of Egypt.” Tr. D. Brakke. Medieval Hagiography. Ed. Thomas Head. New York-London: Routledge, 2001, 1-30.
2., Text and Theory: The Making of a Genre I.
Cox, Patricia: Biography in Late Antiquity. A Quest for the Holy Man. Berkeley- Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983, ch. I. 
Van Uytfanghe, Marc. „L’hagiographie: un ’genre’ chrétien ou antique tardif?” Analecta Bollandiana 111 (1993): 135-188.
3., Text and Theory: The Making of a Genre II.
 Wilson, Anna: „Biographical Models: the Constantinian Period and Beyond.” Constantine: History, Historiography, and Legend. S. N. C. Lieu – D. Montserrat eds. London: Routledge, 1998, pp.107-135.
Cameron, Averil. „Form and Meaning: the Vita Constantini and the Vita Antonii.” Greek Biography and Panegyrics in Late Antiquity. Eds. P. Rousseau – T. Hägg. Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000: 72-88.
 4., Iconicity
 Francis, James A. “Living Icons: Tracing a Motif in Verbal and Visual Representation from the Second to Fourth Centuries C.E.” American Journal of Philology 124 (2003): 575-600.
 5., Spiritual Deserts and Representations of the Body
Goehring, James E., „The Dark Side of Landscape: Ideology and Power in the Christian Myth of the Desert.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 33 (2003): 437-452.
Brown, Peter, “The Desert Fathers: Anthony to Climacus.” The Body and Society. Men, Women and and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988, pp. 214-240.
6., Social Function
Brown, Peter, „The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity.” Journal of Roman Studies 61 (1971), 80-101 = Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity, Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982, 103-152.
Rousseau, Philip, „The Historiography of Asceticism.” The Past Before Us. The Challenge of Historiographies of Late Antiquity. Eds. C. Straw- R. Lim. Turnhout: Brepols, 2004: 89-101.
5., Romancing the Hermit: Jerome
 Saint Jerome: The Life of Saint Paul the First Hermit. Tr. I. S. Kozik, The First Desert Hero: Sat. Jerome’s Vita Pauli. New York, Paulist Press, 1968.
http://home.newadvent.org/fathers/3008.htm
Rebenich, Stefan, Jerome. London: Routledge, 2002, 12-21.
6., Urban, Female, and Wandering Ascetes
Saint Jerome: Letter XXII (To Eustochium). Select letters of St. Jerome. Eds. Goold, George P. - Wright, F. A. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991, pp. 53-159.
Caner, Daniel. Wandering, begging monks : spiritual authority and the promotion of monasticism in late antiquity. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002.
7., Dead Saints?
Trout, Dennis E. „Damasus and the Invention of Early Christian Rome.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 33:3 (2003), 517-536.
8., Explaining the Cult of the Saints
 Peter Brown, . Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1981.
Hayward, Paul Antony: „Demystifying the Role of Sanctity in Western Christendom.” The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Eds. J. Howard-Johnston – P. A. Hayward. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, 115-142. 
9., Charisma and the Mitre
Rapp, Claudia, . Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2005.
10., Holy Bishops I: Ambrose of Milan
Paulinus of Milan, Life of Ambrose. Soldiers of Christ : Saints and Saints' lives from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Ed. Th. F. X. Noble. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.
McLynn, Neil Brendan, . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, ch. 8, pp. 361-377.
11., Holy Bishops II: Augustine of Hippo
Possidius: Life of Augustine. Ed. Th. F. X. Noble. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.
Peter Brown: Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Elm,  Eva, Die Macht der Weisheit: Das Bild des Bischofs in der Vita Augustini des Possidius und anderen spatantiken und fruhmittelalterlichen Bischofsviten, Leiden: Brill, 2003.
12., Holy Bishops III: Martin of Tours
Sulpicius Severus,  The Life of Saint Martin. Tr.  Th. F. X. Head. . Ed. Th. F. X. Noble. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.
Stancliffe, Clare. .  Oxford: Clarendon Press,1983.

Intricate Interfaith Networks: The Variety of Jewish-Christian Contacts in the Middle Ages

• Medieval Studies

Date: 

22 Feb 2010 - 9:00am - 23 Feb 2010 - 4:00pm

Building: 

Nador u. 9, Monument Building

Room: 

Gellner room

Event type: 

workshop

Event audience: 

Public to outside CEU

Contact details

CEU contact person: 

Gerhard Jaritz

E-mail: 

jaritzg@ceu.hu

Phone: 

327-3048

Organizers and Presenters

CEU organizers: 

Gerhard Jaritz

CEU organizer: 

Department of Medieval Studies

External presenters: 

Ephraim Shoham Steiner (Beer Sheva)

Christians and Jews populated medieval Europe from the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean to the Baltic Sea and from the North Sea to the Mediterranean. Within these broad geographical limits groups and individuals set up an intricate network system of commerce, trade, finance as well as the exchange of professional knowledge from philosophical concepts to domestic medical know-how.
Recent scholarship has shown that the denomi¬national divide, although ever present and at times even violently so, did not stop people from forming ties and expanding in more intricate ways and forms than previously thought. At times, these networks functioned with what seems to be a disregard to the denominational and religious difference. This is by no means a simple and self evident statement. The theologi¬cal background regarding “other” faiths within each respective religion, strong social, religious and authoritative circles criticizing such contacts if not discouraging them altogether created a formidable opposition to these contacts and networks.
The workshop intends to address this situation from various angles and disciplinary approaches and to suggest possible avenues for explaining the phenomenon.

Intricate Interfaith Networks

 

      

The Variety of Jewish-Christian Contacts

in the Middle Ages

International Workshop in Medieval Studies

February 22 – 23, 2010

Central European University

Nádor utca 9

1051 Budapest

Gellner Room

Workshop organizers:

Ephraim Shoham Steiner (Beer Sheva)

Gerhard Jaritz (Budapest/Krems)

Information and workshop office:

Department of Medieval Studies

Central European University

1051 Budapest

Hungary

Tel.: +36 1 327-3051

Fax: +36 1 327-3055

Email: medstud@ceu.hu

 

PROGRAM           Monday, February 22, 2010       9:00   Welcome and Opening       9:30  JONATHAN ELUKIN (Hartford):                   Jews as Medieval Europeans      10:30  Coffee      11:00  CRISTIAN GASPAR (Budapest):                   The Saint Who Worshiped the Jews and                   Ignored the Mother of God: Tolerance and                   Its Limits in the Vita S. Nicolai Peregrini                   [BHL 6223]                    PIERO CAPELLI (Venice):                Nicolas Donin and Other Jewish Converts                   in Jewish-Christian Public Disputations                   in the Middle Ages                   MARTHA KEIL (St. Pölten):                What Were They Talking about?                   The Question of Everyday Conversations                   between Jews and Christians in Late                   Medieval Towns      12:30   Lunch     14:30   FLOCEL SABATÉ (LLeida):                  Jewish Neighborhood in Christian Towns                   (14th/15th-c. Catalonia)                   EVELINE BRUGGER (St. Pölten):                Neighbors, Business Partners, Victims:                   Jewish-Christian Interaction in Austrian                   Towns during the Persecutions of the                   Fourteenth Century               15:30   Coffee   16:00   KATALIN SZENDE (Budapest):                  From Court Jews to Town Jews.                  Changing Roles of Hungary's Jewish                  Population in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth                  Centuries                  ETLEVA LALA (Elbasan/Budapest):                  Christian-Jewish Communication Patterns                   in Albanian Coastal Towns (13th-15th c.)                  GERHARD JARITZ (Budapest/Krems):                  Christian and Jewish Sumptuary Laws     17:30   Book presentations     Tuesday, February 23, 2010     9:30   LILACH ASSAF (Constance):                  The Language of Names: Jewish Onomastics                  in Late Medieval Germany, Identity and                  Cultural Exchange                  RAINER BARZEN (Trier):                  Their Own Poor and the Poor of the Others     10:30   Coffee     11:00   EPHRAIM SHOHAM STEINER                 (Beer Sheva):                    “This should not be shown to a gentile.”                    Medico-magical Marginal Entries in                    Medieval Franco-German Hebrew                    Manuscripts and Their Social Significance                 TAMAS VISI (Olomouc):                    The University, the Astronomical Clock,                    and the Jews: The Formation of an                    Ashkenazi Philosophical School in Early                    Fifteenth-Century Prague                 12:00     Lunch      14:00    KATRIN KOGMAN-APPEL                   (Beer Sheva):                      Between the Italian Renaissance and                      Southern German Book Art: Joel ben                      Simeon and Cultural Exchange in the                      Fifteenth Century                       ZSÓFIA BUDA (Budapest):                    Jewish and Christian Contribution                       in Medieval Jewish Book Art – the                       Hamburg Miscellany       15:00     Coffee        15:30     Summary and Final Discussion

 

St. Methodius of Patara

This work was originally attributed to Methodius of Patara, a martyr bishop who died in the early fourth century, C.E. It was actually composed around 660-680 C. E. The real author is unknown, but the original was written in Syriac in the wake of the Islamic conquests and represented a Byzantine apocalyptic tradition that continued to exercise an important influence on Western Christian thought.


The prophecies attributed to St. Methodius of Patara (a martyred bishop of the 4th century) are some of the earliest post-biblical Christian prophecies extant. Most authoritative scholars now agree that the prophecies are the work of a pseudonymous author who wrote in Syriac circa 680 AD. The manuscript in question(Monumenta Patrum Orthodoxographa, 1569) was located in the Patrium Veterum Library nearly 1000 years after the death of St. Methodius.

The pseudo-Methodius collection comprises several distinguishable documents that recur in fragments in many other Medieval prophecies: a historical survey of the nations, beginning with Adam; Gideon's victory over the Ishmaelites; a history of Alexander the Great and Gog-Magog (the Huns, who will attack the world again in the latter days); the new Roman Empire and the ascendancy of Islam; the Moslem reign of terror; the victory of a holy Roman Emperor; and the overthrow of Gog-Magog by the Roman Emperor, the birth of the Antichrist, and the Last Judgment. The following excerpts may have some bearing on our future:

"A time will come when the enemies of Christ will boast: "We have subjected the earth and all its inhabitants, and the Christians cannot escape our hands." Then a Roman Emperor will arise in great fury against them... Drawing his sword, he will fall upon the foes of Christianity and crush them. Then peace will reign on earth, and priests will be relieved of all their anxieties.

"In the last period Christians will not appreciate the great grace of God who provided a monarch, a long duration of peace, a splendid fertility of the earth. They will be very ungrateful, lead a sinful life, in pride, vanity, unchastity, frivolity, hatred, avarice, gluttony, and many other vices, [so] that the sins of men will stink more than a pestilence before God. Many will doubt whether the Catholic faith is the true and only saving one and whether the Jews are correct when they still expect the Messiah. Many will be the false teachings and resultant bewilderment. The just God will in consequence give Lucifer and all his devils power to come on earth and tempt his godless creatures...

"...Then suddenly tribulation and distress will arise against them [the Moslems]. The King of the Greeks, i.e., the Romans, will come out against them in anger, roused as from a drunken stupor like one whom men had thought dead and worthless [Psalms 77:65]. He will go forth against them from the Ethiopian sea and will send the sword and desolation into Ethribus, their homeland, capturing their women and children living in the Land of Promise [Israel]. The sons of the king will come down with the sword and cut them off from the earth. Fear and trembling will rush upon them and their wives and their children from all sides. They will mourn their offspring, weeping over them and all the villages in the lands of their fathers. By the sword they will be given over into the hands of the king of the Romans -- to captivity, death, and decay.

"The King of the Romans will impose his yoke upon them seven times as much as their yoke weighed upon the earth. Great distress will seize them; tribulation will bring them hunger and thirst. They, their wives, and their children will be slaves and serve those who used to serve them, and their slavery will be a hundred times more bitter and hard. The earth which they destituted will then be at peace; each man will return to his own land and to the inheritance of his fathers... Every man who was left captive will return to the things that were his and his fathers', and men will multiply upon the once desolated land like locusts. Egypt will be desolated, Arabia burned with fire, the land of Ausania burned, and the sea provinces pacified. The whole indignation and fury of the King of the Romans will blaze forth against those who deny the Lord Jesus Christ. Then the earth will sit in peace and there will be great peace and tranquillity upon the earth such as has never been nor ever will be any more, since it is the final peace at the End of Time...

"Then the "Gates of the North" will be opened and the strength of those nations which Alexander shut up there will go forth. The whole earth will be terrified at the sight of them; men will be afraid and flee in terror to hide themselves in mountains and caves and graves. They will die of fright and very many will be wasted with fear. There will be no one to bury the bodies. The tribes which will go forth from the North will eat the flesh of men and will drink the blood of beasts like water. They will eat unclean serpents, scorpions, and every kind of filthy and abominable beast and reptile which crawls upon the earth. They will consume the dead bodies of beasts of burden and even women's abortions. They will slay the young and take them from their mothers and eat them. They will corrupt the earth and contaminate it. No one will be able to stand against them.

"After a week of years, when they have already captured the city of Jappa, the Lord will send one of the princes of his host and strike them down in a moment. After this the King of the Romans will go down and live in Jerusalem for seven and a half-seven times, i.e., years. When the ten and a half years are completed the Son of Perdition will appear.

"He will be born in Chorazaim, nourished in Bethsaida, and reign in Capharnaum. Chorazim will rejoice because he was born in her, and Capharnaum because he will have reigned in her. For this reason in the Third Gospel the Lord gave the following statement: "Woe to you, Chorazaim, woe to you Bethsaida, woe to you Capharnaum --- if you have risen up to heaven, you will descend to hell" [Luke 10:13, 15]. When the Son of Perdition has arisen, the King of the Romans will ascend Golgotha upon which the wood of the Holy Cross is fixed, in the place where the Lord underwent death for us. The king will take the crown from his head and place it upon the cross and stretching out his hands to heaven will hand over the kingdom of the Christians to God the Father. The cross and crown of the king will be taken up together to heaven. This is because the Cross on which our Lord Jesus Christ hung for the common salvation of all will begin to appear before him at his coming to convict the lack of faith of the unbelievers. The prophecy of David which says, "In the last days Ethiopia will stretch out her hand to God" [Psalm 67:32] will be fulfilled in that these last men who stretch out their hands to God are from the seed of Chuseth, the daughter of Phol, king of Ethiopia. When the Cross has been lifted up on high to heaven, the King of the Romans will directly give up his spirit. Then every principality and power will be destroyed that the Son of Perdition may manifest...

"When the Son of Perdition appears, he will be of the tribe of Dan, according to the prophecy of Jacob. This enemy of religion will use a diabolic art to produce many false miracles, such as causing the blind to see, the lame to walk, and the deaf to hear. Those possessed with demons will be exorcised. He will deceive many and, if he could, as our Lord has said, even the faithful elect.

"Even the Antichrist will enter Jerusalem, where he will enthrone himself in the temple as a god (even though he will be an ordinary man of the tribe of Dan to which Judas Iscariot also belonged).

"In those days, the Antichrist will bring about many tribulation; but God will not allow those redeemed by the divine blood to be deceived. For that reason, he will send his two servants, Enoch and Elias, who will declare the prodigies of the Antichrist to be false, and will denounce him as an impostor. After the death and ruin of many, he will leave the Temple in confusion; and many of his followers will forsake him to join the company of the righteous. The seducer, upon seeing himself reproached and scorned, will become enraged and will put to death those saints of God. It is then that there will appear the sign of the Son of Man, and he will come upon the clouds of heaven."

MEDIEVALISTS EVENTS FOR FEBRUARY IN USA

11–13 February 2010. "Humanity and the Natural World in the Middle Ages and Renaissance," the 16th Annual ACMRS Conference, at Arizona State University, in Tempe, Arizona.
Call for papers: We welcome papers that explore any topic related to the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and especially those that focus on this year's theme of humanity and the natural world, both in literal and metaphorical manifestations.
Selected papers related to the conference theme will be considered for publication in the conference volume of the Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance series, published by Brepols Publishers (Belgium).
Before the conference, ACMRS will host a workshop on manuscript studies to be led by Timothy Graham, Director of the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of New Mexico. The workshop will be Thursday afternoon, February 11, and participation will be limited to 25 participants, who will be determined by the order in which registrations are received. Email acmrs@asu.edu with "conference workshop" as the subject line to be added to the list. The cost of the workshop is $25 and is in addition to the regular conference registration fee.
The conference registration fee is $95 ($45 for students and emeriti/ae faculty) and includes welcoming and farewell receptions, two days of concurrent sessions (Friday and Saturday), and keynote address. Please note that there will be an opening reception Thursday evening, but there will be no sessions that day.
The deadline for proposals is 9:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time on 16 November 2009. Proposals must include audio/visual requirements and any other special requests. Subsequent a/v requests may not be honored without additional charge. In order to streamline the committee review process, submissions will only be accepted at http://link.library.utoronto.ca/acmrs/conference/ from 1 June through 16 November 2009. Questions? Call 480-965-9323 or e-mail acmrs@asu.edu.
17–20 February 2010. "Crusades: Medieval Worlds in Conflict," the Second International Symposium on Crusade Studies will be held at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. The focus will be on the “worlds” of the Mediterranean and the impact of the crusades on them.
Plenary speakers include Michael Angold (University of Edinburgh), Ronnie Ellenblum (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Eva Haverkamp (Rice University), Ahmet T. Karamustafa (Washington University), Christopher MacEvitt (Dartmouth College), Suleiman Mourad (Smith College), Jonathan Phillips (Royal Holloway, University of London), and John H. Pryor (University of Sydney).
Phase I of the symposium will take place on the evenings of 7, 18, and 19 February, when two distinguished speakers will deliver plenary lectures of general interest followed by questions and discussion. Phase II will begin on Friday, 19 February. It will consist of scholarly papers of twenty minutes in length delivered in concurrent and plenary sessions.
Call for papers: Twenty minute scholarly papers will be delivered on 19 and 20 February in concurrent and plenary sessions. All topics relating to the crusading movement are welcome. Phase II will conclude with a plenary roundtable discussion, reception, and a banquet. Abstracts should be submitted by mail, fax, or e-mail by 1 December 2009. Contact: Second International Symposium on Crusade Studies, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis Univ., 3800 Lindell Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63108 (314-977-7180; fax: 314-977-1603; cmrs@slu.edu; http://crusades.slu.edu/symposium/).
The International Symposium on Crusade Studies is a quadrennial activity of the Crusades Studies Forum at Saint Louis University. It is sponsored by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University.
18–20 February 2010. "The Ends of Romance?" the 25th annual conference of the Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM) will be held jointly with the Illinois Medieval Association (IMA), at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. The Keynote speakers will be Robert Hanning (Columbia University, Emeritus) and Tom Hanks (Baylor University).
Contact: Mickey Sweeney, English, Dominican University, 7900 West Division, River Forest, IL 60305 (708-524-6940; msweeney@dom.edu; http://domin.dom.edu/imam).
19 February 2010. "Fear and Loathing: Encountering the Other in Anglo-Saxon England," the Sixth Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference, sponsored by the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium (ASSC), Columbia University, and the Harvard Committee on Medieval Studies, to be held at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Harvard University, in partnership with the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium invites submissions for the Sixth Annual Graduate Student Conference of the ASSC. The theme of this year's conference will explore various instances of fear and loathing in the literatures and cultures of early medieval Northern Europe (Anglo-Saxon, Celtic and Scandinavian). This could include fears and anxieties produced by encounters with cultural outsiders as well as internal conflicts within a single society or individual. (HarvardAngloSaxon@gmail.com; ASSC@columbia.edu; http://www.columbia.edu/cu/assc.)
19–20 February 2010. "Authorship" is the theme of the Eighteenth Annual Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Interdisciplinary Symposium, organized by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami, in Coral Gables. The two keynote speakers are Jane Tylus, Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature, New York University and William E. Wallace, Barbara Murphy Distinguished Professor of Art History, Washington University in St. Louis. The Symposium Co-organizers are Perri Lee Roberts, Senior Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities and Maria Galli Stampino, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
Call for papers: the organizers invite papers on the many facets of authorship in the pre- and early-modern periods. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: anonymity; workshop or group works; collective or collaborative authorship; relationships between sponsors and authors; writing vs. dictating; writings on creative endeavors; the author's voice in a text; anthologies; collections of written works; citations; silvae; salon and academy writing; implied author, implied readers; actors as authors; improvisation. Papers should not exceed 20 minutes. Acceptances will be confirmed no later than 1 December 2009. A one-page abstract and brief c.v. should be sent no later than 1 November 2009 to Michelle Prats, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, Univ. of Miami, P.O. Box 248093, Coral Gables, Florida 33124-2074 (m.prats@miami.edu; http://www.as.miami.edu/mll/events/). Electronic submissions are encouraged.
19–20 February 2010: "The Past's Digital Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities," a Graduate Student Symposium at Yale University.
How is digital technology changing methods of scholarly research with pre-digital sources in the humanities? If the "medium is the message," then how does the message change when primary sources are translated into digital media? What kinds of new research opportunities do databases unlock and what do they make obsolete? What is the future of the rare book and manuscript library and its use? What biases are inherent in the widespread use of digitized material? How can we correct for them? Amidst numerous benefits in accessibility, cost, and convenience, what concerns have been overlooked?
Keynote Speaker: Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania Colloquium Guest Speaker: Jacqueline Goldsby, University of Chicago
Call for papers: we invite graduate students to submit paper proposals for an interdisciplinary symposium that will address how databases and other digital technologies are making an impact on our research in the humanities. The graduate student panels will be moderated by a Yale faculty member or library curator with a panel respondent.
Potential paper topics include:
· The Future of the History of the Book
· Public Humanities
· Determining Irrelevance in the Archive
· Defining the Key-Word
· The Material Object in Archival Research
· Local Knowledge, Global Access
· Digital Afterlives
· Foucault, Derrida, and the Archive
· Database Access Across the Profession
· Mapping and Map-Based Platforms
· Interactive Research
Please e-mail a one-page proposal along with a c.v. to pdp@yale.edu. Deadline for submissions is 10 September 2009. Accepted panelists will be notified by 1 October 2009. We ask that all graduate-student panelists pre-circulate their paper among their panels by 20 January 2010. Please contact Molly Farrell and Heather Klemann (pdp@yale.edu) with any additional inquiries. For more information about conference events, please visit our forthcoming website (http://digitalhumanities.yale.edu/pdp [October]).20 February 2010. "Symposium on Disease and Disability in the Middle Ages and Renaissance." At the Newberry Library, Chicago (http://www.newberry.org/renaissance/conf-inst/diseasedisability.html).
Everyone who registers in advance for the conference will receive a voucher for one free admission to "Music Hath Charms: Disease and Disability in Music," a concert performed by The Newberry Consort at 7 p.m., after the symposium's afternoon session, at the Newberry Library.
Funds may be available for graduate students and faculty of Consortium institutions to travel to the Newberry Library to attend this program. Contact your Representative Council member or the Center for Renaissance Studies.
This conference will include a continental breakfast, as well as a reception at the end of the day. While there is no fee to attend this event, participants must register in advance by calling the Center for Renaissance Studies at 312.255.3514 or e-mailing (renaissance@newberry.org).
25–27 February 2010. "Les Bibles atlantiques: Le manuscrit biblique à l'époque de la réforme ecclésiastique du XIe siècle," an international colloquium to be held at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Les Facultés de Théologie et des Lettres de l'Université de Genève, en collaboration avec la Maison de l'Histoire de L'Université de Genève, la Bibliothèque de Genève, le Centro Storico Benedettino Italiano et la Faculté de Lettres de l'Université de Cassino (Italie), organise un Colloque international sur les Bibles atlantiques. Le Colloque international de Genève représentera la première occasion pour faire le bilan historiographique des recherches consacrées à la production, la circulation et l'emploi des Bibles atlantiques; il constituera également un moment précieux d'échanges et de confrontation entre les spécialistes et tous ceux qui, dans leurs recherches d'archives et dans les fonds médiévaux, se sont rapprochés de ces manuscrits.
Les Bibles atlantiques, produites entre la moitié du XIe et la moitié du XIIe siècle dans la région de Rome, constituent un genre particulier du manuscrit biblique. La production et la circulation de ces manuscrits bibliques, présentant des caractères spécifiques et un degré plutôt élevé d'uniformité de tous les caractères matériels et textuels, s'inscrivent dans le mouvement de renouveau moral et spirituel de l'Eglise au XIe siècle que les historiens appellent couramment la Réforme grégorienne. Avec leurs caractéristiques matérielles et textuelles, les Bibles atlantiques semblent bien répondre à l'exigence des réformateurs romains de définir un modèle qui puisse s'imposer par l'autorité théologique du contenu et par la monumentalité de l'aspect extérieur.
Comme les études les plus récentes l'ont montré, les problématiques liées à la réalisation des Bibles atlantiques, ainsi qu'au contexte de la production, de la circulation et de l'utilisation de ces livres, demandent nécessairement une étude interdisciplinaire de spécialistes en histoire médiévale, en philologie et histoire de la Vulgate, en science de la Liturgie et en histoire du livre manuscrit.
Après la grande exposition de l'année 2000, une rencontre sur les Bibles atlantiques entre les spécialistes s'impose, afin que chacun dans son domaine spécifique puisse croiser les approches sur ces objets monumentaux. Ainsi, cette manifestation permettra d'aborder le phénomène des Bibles atlantiques selon différentes perspectives d'analyse combinant histoire culturelle, religieuse et matérielle avec le contexte historique et la liturgie. De même, les aspects textuels, codicologiques, paléographies et ornementaux du manuscrit seront largement traités.
Les variétés et le caractère interdisciplinaire des recherches des intervenants au Colloque international de Genève de 2010 permettront d'approfondir les connaissances sur les Bibles atlantiques ainsi que sur le contexte historique et culturel dans lequel ce genre du manuscrit biblique a été conçu, réalisé et diffusé.
Dans le courant de l'historiographie matérielle, d'abord, les méthodes et les procédés techniques adoptés pour la réalisation de ces livres géants devront être élucidés. Les systèmes de distribution des tâches du travail de copie et d'exécution de l'ornementation visant à optimiser les temps de travail des copistes et des enlumineurs seront également abordés. Les centres de production de ces manuscrits en Italie et dans les autres régions de l'Empire seront identifiés et localisés, pour ainsi vérifier l'existence d'un véritable réseau qui aurait garantit la circulation de connaissances, savoirs faire, techniques de construction, mais aussi de modèles du manuscrit biblique. La réalisation d'un manuscrit géant contenant le texte complet de la Vulgate a nécessairement posé plusieurs problèmes d'ordre technique, ainsi que des contraintes liées à d'organisation et à la distribution du travail entre les différents artisans du livre, qui auraient vraisemblablement opéré en équipe et sur plusieurs exemplaires à la fois. L'analyse comparative de ces exemplaires permettra de repérer l'emploi de procédés et de techniques analogues adoptés dans des régions différentes.
Dans le domaine de la philologie et de l'histoire de la Vulgate au Moyen Age, le Colloque international de Genève permettra de combler, au moins en partie, une lacune concernant justement le XIe siècle qui a pourtant vu nombre d'innovations en matière de production du livre et de révision du texte biblique. En effet, si d'importantes recherches ont été consacrées à l'histoire de la Bible du IXe siècle, l'histoire du texte de la Vulgate entre le Xe et le XIIe siècle a été à peine abordée. Par le biais de l'étude de la recension des Bibles atlantiques, nous pourrons contribuer à mieux connaître quels étaient les textes de la Bible latine qui circulaient effectivement à Rome au XIe siècle et qui ont été utilisés en tant que sources pour la rédaction des ces manuscrits. En particulier, un aspect qui sera forcement abordé concerne l'établissement du texte biblique à copier, dans une époque où le Canon des Ecritures Saintes n'avait pas encore été établi d'une manière définitive : le choix des livres considérés comme canoniques et l'ordre de ceux-ci ne sont que certains éléments du travail d'édition accomplie sur la Vulgate de ces manuscrits par les réformateurs romains.
D'ailleurs, ces Bibles monumentales, conçues en tant qu'emblème de la réforme ecclésiastique, connaissent également une utilisation pratique dans les communautés monastiques et canoniales auxquelles elles étaient destinées dès l'origine. L'emploi liturgique des Bibles atlantiques dans la célébration quotidienne de l'Office divin est ainsi un aspect sur lequel des recherches complémentaires sont nécessaires. De plus, à partir de ces manuscrits et de leur circulation, certains aspects de la vie religieuse locale, tels que les rapports hiérarchiques entre les hauts prélats et le clergé, ainsi que l'activité pastorale des évêques qui figurent parmi les promoteurs de la réforme et, en même temps, parmi les commanditaires des Bibles atlantiques, seront reconstitués.
Enfin, ce Colloque permettra de s'interroger sur les rapports entre la production des Bibles atlantiques italiennes et la production contemporaine d'autres manuscrits bibliques réalisés dans d'autres régions de l'Empire, comme les Bibles géantes d'Echternach, de Lobbes et d'Admont qui, toujours liées au milieu de la réforme ecclésiastique du XIe siècle, présentent, elles aussi, des dimensions monumentales.
Le Comité scientifique lance un Appel à contribution adressé tout spécialement aux jeunes chercheurs (Doctorants ou équivalents) pour une conférence concernant le sujet traité dans le Colloque international de Genève. Les conférences pourront être rédigées en français (de préférence), en italien, en anglais ou en allemand. Les propositions (1000 signes au maximum) sont à retourner à Mme Nadia Togni par courrier électronique avant le 30 septembre 2009. Une réponse sera donnée à partir du 15 octobre 2009. Contact: Nadia Togni, Faculté de théologie - Uni Bastions - 5, rue De-Candolle - CH-1211 Genève 4 (Nadia.Togni@unige.ch).
27 February 2010. "Monastic and Religious Life in the Middle Ages," the 34th annual meeting of the Mid-American Medieval Association will be held at Conception Abbey, near Maryville, Missouri. Papers on any medieval topic will be considered.
The keynote speaker will be William Courtenay, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin, Madison; his topic is "Medieval Universities as Religious Communities."
Call for papers: Please send a one-page abstract to Brother Thomas Sullivan (660-944-2860; fax 660-944-2800; thomassull@gmail.com). The abstracts are due no later than 15 December 2009. Graduate students are eligible for the Jim Falls Paper Prize and must submit a copy of their completed paper electronically to Jim Falls at fallsj@umkc.edu no later than 1 February 2010. For updates, info on registration and more, check the MAMA website (http://www.midamericamedievalassociation.org; http://www.conceptionabbey.org/).

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