Cartularies in medieval europe: text and contexts

International Conference. Lisbon, Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo. 11-12 June 2015. This meeting aims at creating an opportunity for all those involved in Medieval cartularies to discuss concrete experiences of studying and editing European cartularies from the 12th-13th centuries.

2014-09-24 -

Over the last two decades, cartularies have been seen as an object of study in themselves, not only for the wealth of information they provide or for the problems of authenticity, but as organized deposits of memory and of control of property. This meeting aims at creating an opportunity for all those involved in Medieval cartularies to discuss concrete experiences of studying and editing European cartularies from the 12th-13th centuries.

Without dismissing a global overview of this phenomenon, we aim at approaching the topic through specific case studies and by taking into account the different ways in which medieval institutions built their own memory. Therefore, it is also essential to pay attention to non-diplomatic texts copied in or written in close relation to the cartularies (e.g. hagiography or historiography), and to the codices in terms of paleography, codicology and decoration.

The conference will be organized in plenary sessions with keynote speakers and parallel sessions with papers:

1. Memory, archives and cartularies: models and aims in the organization of corpora.
2. From the archive to the codex: the selection, organization and use / re-use of documents;
3. Cartularies and non-diplomatic texts: hagiography, historiography, annals.
4. Visual Culture: decorations, seals and signa.
5. Analyzing and editing: experiences, projects, databases.

Invited speakers:

Ana Suárez González (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
Anna Bellettini (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Cristina Jular Pérez-Alfaro (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
David Peterson (Universidad del País Vasco)
Fernando López Alsina (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
Hermínia Vasconcelos Vilar (Universidade de Évora)
José Antonio Fernández Flórez (Universidad de Burgos)
José Manuel Díaz de Bustamante (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
José Manuel Ruiz Asencio (Universidad de Valladolid)
Julio Escalona Monge (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho (Universidade de Coimbra)
Marta Herrero de la Fuente (Universidad de Valladolid)
Miguel Calleja Puerta (Universidad de Oviedo)
Monique Goullet (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Saul António Gomes (Universidade de Coimbra)
Susana Herreros Lopetegui (Archivo Real y General de Navarra)

More info here