[Bilimsel Haber] CfP: Medieval Cities, International Medieval Congress, (Leeds, 9-12 July 2007)

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International Medieval Congress: MEDIEVAL CITIES (FOR SPECIAL FOCUS ISLAM-LATIN-BYZANTIUM SEE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE)

IMC 2007 call for papers
The fourteenth International Medieval Congress will take place in Leeds, from 9-12 July 2007.
Please use the IMC Proposal Form to submit complete sessions or individual proposals. Hard copies of the form can be requested here or via the address below. Online proposal forms are available via
http://imc.leeds.ac.uk/imcapp.


Call for Papers/Sessions
Medieval Cities
International Medieval Congress, Leeds
9-12 July 2007

Medieval towns and cities shaped the world in which we live today. Many had ancient predecessors, but their distinctive evolution in post-Roman times underlies the cultural and political structures of modern Europe. Few regions were highly-urbanised, but everywhere was to some degree influenced by networks of cities and lesser centres - as sites of marketing and manufacture, and as symbols and instruments of power and belief. Cities gave identities to territories, shaped landscapes and states, facilitated movement, and promoted new social, cultural, intellectual, and ideological forms. As icons of order they were influential channels of communication, both with the past and with ideas of heaven and the future. They also offered fertile ground for the elaboration of myth. Cities linked Europe to the wider world, through exchanges with counterparts in Africa and Asia. The Leeds IMC has selected this theme to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the foundation of the borough of Leeds by its manorial lord, an event which established the physical framework of the later town as it is still visible in the commercial city of today. The Congress will include sessions devoted to Leeds but is also an ideal venue for bringing together the wide variety of recent scholarship in many disciplines which has had a bearing on cities in medieval Europe and neighbouring territories. We specially invite papers that cross traditional boundaries of discipline and topic.

Aspects of this thematic strand may include:
. Cities and social and political formation
. Cities and patterns of belief: worship, cults, pilgrimage, and heresy
. Cities as sites of material and cultural production
. Cities as sites of commercial and cultural exchange
. Cities and the shaping of custom and law
. Cities and war
. Cities in history, myth, and imagination
. Life and death in the medieval city
. Networks of cities and other towns
. The impact of cities on territories
. The symbolic landscape of cities
. The representation of cities in graphic art
. Medieval cities in the modern world: conservation, museums, historiography, tourism

The IMC seeks to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of Medieval Studies. At the IMC 2007, sessions and papers on the special thematic strand 'Medieval Cities' are particularly encouraged. However, as in previous years, papers and sessions on all aspects of the study of the European Middle Ages are most welcome. We prefer proposals to be completed online www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc - a quick, easy, and secure method. Paper proposals must be submitted by 31 August 2006; session proposals must be submitted by 30 September 2006. The IMC welcomes session and paper proposals submitted in all major European languages.

For a Proposal Form and further details please contact:

Axel E. W. Müller
International Medieval Congress
Institute for Medieval Studies
Parkinson 1.03
University of Leeds
LEEDS, LS2 9JT
UK
Tel: +44 (0)113 343 3614
Fax: +44 (0)113 343 3616
Email: IMC at leeds.ac.uk


More info:

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2007_call.html


SPECIAL FOCUS:
Rulership in the Latin West, the Byzantine Commonwealth and the Islamic World

Building on a series of sessions on underage rule and on counsel and advice at the Leeds International Medieval Congress in 2005 and 2006, papers are being invited for a series of broadly comparative sessions on the theme of 'Rulers and cities' in the Latin west, the Byzantine commonwealth and the Islamic world.

The main purpose of these sessions is to explore how historians with geographically, culturally and chronologically divergent interests tackle comparable questions and phenomena, and thereby to foster not only an exchange of ideas and methodological approaches, but also to define more clearly the differences as well as the parallels between the various political communities around the Mediterranean, and in northern and eastern Europe.

The theme of rulers and cities seems quite appropriate to achieve these aims, raising issues common to the political cultures under consideration, but within highly divergent political, cultural and economic frameworks. Some possible questions to consider might include:

  a.. Symbolic value of capitals
  b.. Ruler as organiser of affairs in cities
  c.. Rulers based in cities
  d.. Rulers based outside cities
  e.. Cities as problems for rulers
  f.. Towns/cities as rulers
Short abstracts (of no more than 100 words) for a 20-minute paper should be sent by 10 September 2006 to:

Contact:
Jonathan Shepard (Byzantium) <nshepard at easynet.co.uk>
Jo Van Steenbergen (Islam) <jvs3 at st-and.ac.uk>
Bjorn Weiler (Latin Europe) <bkw at aber.ac.uk>
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