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Workshop: New approaches to the cultural history of writing in the Early Middle Ages: societies, networks, and ideas

@Universidad de Salamanca, 22 November 2024

Aims & objectives: 

The ERC project «The Secret Life of Writing» has developed studies for more than four years dedicated to providing a renewed perspective on the significance of written culture among common people in the Early Middle Ages. Challenging the common notion of widespread illiteracy during that time, it has been able to offer a new understanding of the extent of pragmatic literacy in local societies, how it was related to different members of society, and the role that writing played in the everyday lives of many people in that era. These topics have been addressed internally by the project members and their Advisory Board; we now want to open them up to a more broader discussion.

This workshop serves as a meeting point for various approaches to studying written culture and its role in society during the Early Middle Ages. Running parallel to the activities of the project itself, it will facilitate mutual enrichment among researchers from disciplines related to this rich theme. The workshop sessions aim to achieve a better understanding of the theme by addressing it from various perspectives and with the participation of accomplished specialists as discussants.

We seek external participation from researchers at all stages of their careers who can submit proposals on thematic specializations in the following groups:

• materiality of writing,
• social differentiation and its relationship with writing,
• scripts in the Early Middle Ages,
• economy and written production,
• intellectual networks and writing,
• pragmatic literacy in the Early Middle Ages,
• and memory and writing.

This activity aims to achieve the following objectives:

• To disseminate recent progress in studying written culture during the Early Middle Ages.
• To create a forum for discussion among different disciplines studying early medieval written culture and its role in society.
• To enrich the international debate with contributions from the European project «People and Writing.»
• To open the debates held within the project to all contributions that researchers from different disciplines could make on this topic.
• To integrate studies conducted in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula in the Early Middle Ages, a primary focus of the project, into discussions addressing the theme in other European spaces and the Mediterranean region.

Call for papers:

Is your research about rural areas during the Late Antiquity or Early Middle Ages? Not sure where to begin, or already started but feeling a bit lost? Don’t worry, you’re not alone.

Ever wondered what makes up a local community and who belongs to it? How to figure out who’s who based on their social status? And how do you connect them to the manuscripts that are out there?

What kinds of documents were being created? Who wrote them, and what were they like physically?

How do you tackle a thorough, interdisciplinary study without getting mixed up in all the different terms and methods?

If you’re nodding your head to any of these questions, why not join us at our workshop?

We’ll be swapping problems and brainstorming solutions to help build a clearer picture of society and writing in non-elite, local settings.

All we need from you is some basic information, such as your name and your institution. Please also include a brief description of your research challenges or the resources you have used.

Send it by email (ainoacastro @ usal.es – please, state in the subject «Workshop: New approaches to the cultural history of writing») before 1 July 2024.

The workshop is free of charge.

Let’s work it out together!

 

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(Nuevas perspectivas en el estudio de) Manuscritos medievales, Seminar Series @ Universidad de Salamanca (2024)

Seminario:

17 de abril de 2024 · 17:00h

Talleres epigráficos en el ámbito rural. Autores y actores

María Encarnación Martín López

Directora del Instituto de Estudios Medievales

Departamento de Patrimonio artístico y documental

Universidad de León

 

El seminario tendrá lugar en formato no presencial y está abierto al público en general. Para registrarse, por favor enviar un email a ainoacastro @ usal.es

(Nuevas perspectivas en el estudio de) Manuscritos medievales, Seminar Series @ Universidad de Salamanca (2024)

Seminario inaugural:

Facultad de Geografía e Historia, Sala de Grados
2 de febrero de 2024 · 16:00

Changes in production of parchment during one millennium: 4th to 14th centuries

Jiří Vnouček
Conservator of parchment, paper & bookbinding
The Royal Library, Copenhagen

El seminario tendrá lugar en formato híbrido y está abierto al público en general. Para registrarse, por favor enviar un email a ainoacastro @ usal.es

II Taller de Caligrafía Medieval

Iniciación a la escritura carolina, impartido por la calígrafa Esperanza Serrano (Alcuino Caligrafía & Arte · Villa del Libro de Urueña). Del 30 de enero al 2 de febrero de 2024 (en horario: 10.00-13.00 y 16.00-19.00; viernes solo en horario de mañana) en la Universidad de Salamanca. Curso gratuito. Número máximo de alumnos: 15. Póster

(Nuevas perspectivas en el estudio de) Manuscritos medievales, Seminar Series @ Universidad de Salamanca (2022-2023)

Producción, uso y función de la escritura en contextos rurales del NO peninsular (ss. X-XII)

Seminario inaugural: 18 de enero de 2023, 12.00h
Distinción entre iguales: ¿Cómo investigar la diferenciación social entre los sectores no aristocráticos de la Alta Edad Media? – Julio Escalona (CSIC) y Álvaro Carvajal (USAL)

Talleres de metodología:
17 de febrero de 2023 | 12.00h
Sociedad y producción del escrito: análisis histórico – Daniel Justo (USAL)
15 de marzo de 2023 | 12.00h
Materialidad de lo escrito: análisis diplomático – Francisco Álvarez (USAL)
19 de abril de 2023 | 12.00h
Escritura y contexto: análisis paleográfico – Ainoa Castro (USAL)

Tanto el seminario como los talleres tendrán lugar en formato híbrido y están abiertos al público en general. Para registrarse, por favor enviar un email a ainoacastro@usal.es. [póster promocional]

I Taller de Caligrafía Medieval

Iniciación a la escritura visigótica redonda, impartido por la calígrafa Esperanza Serrano (Alcuino Caligrafía & Arte · Villa del Libro de Urueña). Del 31 de enero al 4 de febrero de 2022 (en horario: 10.00-13.00 y 16.00-19.00) en la Universidad de Salamanca. Curso gratuito. Número máximo de alumnos: 15. Póster

(New Perspectives in the Study of) Manuscript Studies, Seminar Series @ Universidad de Salamanca

1 April 2022, 17.00 CET (online): “At the Roots of European Spirituality – Early Christian Music from East and West” by Dr. Elsa De Luca (CESEM-FCSH Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa). Further details

Papers International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds (3-7 July 2023)

Castro Correa, A., “Local Priests and Rural Communities South of the Miño: Written Production and Identity, 10th Century”

Álvarez López, F. J., «Teridorio Portucalensis discurente ribulos inter Aue et Leça’: Document Production and Local Societies in Northern Portugal, 10th-11th Centuries»

Justo Sánchez, D., «Conflicts over Property and Control of Local Churches in Early Medieval Galicia, 9th-12th Centuries: Actors, Arguments, and Strategies»

De la Pinta Rodríguez, P., «Escritura y sociedad en el Bierzo: producción gráfica y memoria social (ss. X-XI)»

Pombo Rial, A., «Iglesias y monasterios como dinamizadores sociales en contextos rurales del NO peninsular (ss. X-XI)»

More information · See materials

Paper Poderes locales y poderes del reino y sus vínculos con las instituciones eclesiásticas en la Edad Media: acuerdos, consensos y rupturas, Universidad de Salamanca (11-12 May 2023)

Castro Correa, A., Justo Sánchez, D., “Recordar y olvidar en entornos rurales del noroeste peninsular: actores y gestores de producción documental durante los siglos X y XI» Programa

Paper Congreso internacional “Paisajes políticos entre la Antigüedad Tardía y la Alta Edad Media (siglos V-XI)”, Universidad de Salamanca (17-19 octubre 2022)

Justo Sánchez, D., “A la sombra de un lugar central. La memoria de los espacios fortificados en la articulación de territorios supralocales en el reino de León (ss. X-XI)» Programa

Paper XXIIe Colloque Comité international de paléographie latine: Encounters in written culture: influence, interchange, transfer, reception?, Prague (14-16 September 2022)

Castro Correa, A., Álvarez López, F., “Documentary practices and uses in rural context of north-western Iberia» More information · See materials

Papers (full session) International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds (4-7 July 2022)

Justo Sánchez, D., “The switch of two kingdoms: an historical approach to the Galician-Portuguese territorial identity up to the 12th century”

Álvarez López, F., “Writing across the Miño: (re-)assessing writing practices in Galicia and Portugal before 1200”

Castro Correa, A., “From monastic to parochial schools north and south of the Miño: notes on rural scribes in 12th-century northwest”

More information · See materials

Paper 10th International Medieval Meeting, Universitat de Lleida (27-30 June 2022)

Justo Sánchez, D., “Conflictos, sociedad y cultura escrita en la Galicia Altomedieval: el Valle de Chamoso entre los siglos X y XI” Más información

Paper XIX Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas, «Forma, uso y función de lo escrito. De la Antigüedad al siglo XII», Facultad de Geografía e Historia, Universidad de Sevilla (20-21 June 2022)

Castro Correa, A., Álvarez López, F., «Tras las huellas del campesino: la escritura en contextos rurales del NO peninsular (ss. XI-XII)» Más información · Ver materiales

Paper V Congreso Internacional de Historia y Videojuegos, Universidad de Murcia (11 May 2022)

de la Pinta Rodríguez, P., “Scribe of Ages” Más información · Ver materiales

Seminario de Doctorado, Universidad de Salamanca (8 March 2022)

Castro Correa, A., “La vida secreta de la escritura: un proyecto de paleografía holística” Ver materiales

Seminario de Doctorado, Universidad de Vitoria (25 November 2021)

Castro Correa, A., “The Secret Life of Writing: People, Script and Ideas in the Iberian Peninsula (PeopleAndWriting)” Ver materiales

Paper XVIII Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas. De scriptura et scriptis: Conservar, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander (14-15 July 2021)

Castro Correa, A., “Gamificación. Scribe of Ages: aprender paleografía jugando” Más información

Paper XVIII Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas. De scriptura et scriptis: Conservar, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander (14-15 July 2021)

Castro Correa, A., “ERC Starting Grant Project. The Secret Life of Writing: People, script, and Ideas in the Iberian Peninsula (c. 900-1200)” Más información · Ver materiales

Conferencia I Ciclo de conferencias de divulgación de la Asociación de Amigos del Archivo Histórico Nacional. Tinta, papel y pergamino: el pasado en sus documentos, Archivo Histórico Nacional de Madrid (11 March 2021)

Castro Correa, A., “Los fondos del AHN en el proyecto ERC: La vida secreta de la escritura” Más información · Ver materiales

Seminario Medieval Manuscripts Seminars, Institute of English Studies-School of Advanced Study University of London (2 March 2021)

Castro Correa, A., “The Secret Life of Writing: A Holistic Palaeography Project” More information · See materials

Charla 13th Annual (Virtual) Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: Manuscript Studies in the Covid-19 Age, The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies-University of Pennsylvania Libraries (18-20 November 2020).

Castro Correa, A., “The Secret Life of Writing: People, Script and Ideas in the Iberian Peninsula” More information · See materials

Webinar Digital Humanities: New Approaches to Research and Teaching of the Medieval Mediterranean (5th to 15th centuries), The Society for the Medieval Mediterranean (29 September 2020)

Castro Correa, A., “Scribe of Ages: Playing with 6th to 13th c.-Iberian Manuscripts” More information · See materials