IZMF – Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalter und Frühneuzeit

Lecture series of the IZMF in the winter semester 2022/2023: University in context: 400 years PLUS and the knowledge cultures of the Middle Ages and the early modern period

Anna Vierlinger — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 09:20:43 +0000

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Hl. Augustinus, Altar mit Abt Benedikt Eck von Mondsee als Stifter
Meister des Mondseer Altars, Ende 15. Jh.
Galerie Belvedere
Foto: P. Böttcher/IMAREAL

From an interdisciplinary perspective, the series of lectures gives a historical overview to the thematic complexes of university and anniversary. Not only the University of Salzburg and its historical development will be taken into account, but also the wide range of aspects that are connected with the inception, the self-image and the external perception of universities in medieval and modern Europe to this day. These include, for example, their position in the context of medieval and early modern educational policy, the changing forms of organizing lessons and teaching canon as well as questions of representation and staging or the relationship between university and politics and its effects on the perception of educational institutions. Particular attention should be paid to the material dimensions of education, knowledge and knowledge transfer. The main goal of this course is to understand the university as a social as well as a real building in all its differentiated facets. The anniversary also offers the opportunity to discuss the topic of “anniversary celebrations”. This takes the content-related focus of the IZMF with regard to the interdisciplinary research of historical cultures into account.

The lecture will take place every Monday from 5:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. from Oct. 03, 2022 in HS Agnes Muthspiel (E.002 U1.002). The lecture will also be available online. You may also rewatch certain episodes via UniTV.

To join online, please click the respective link:

03.10. Introduction: University in context: 400 years PLUS and the knowledge cultures of the Middle Ages and the early modern period Michael Brauer (FB Geschichte), Elisabeth Gruber (IZMF/IMAREAL)

10.10. History of the PLUS and the archive as a place of remembrance Christoph Brandhuber (PLUS, Universitätsarchiv)

17.10. Between tradition and innovation: The university as an institution from the perspective of medieval subjects Christina Antenhofer (FB Geschichte)

24.10. From goose quill to black art: manuscripts and incunabula from the library of the Salzburg archbishops Beatrix Koll (Universitätsbibliothek)

07.11. Prestige buildings and permanent temporary arrangements: On the materiality of university teaching and living spaces Thomas Kühtreiber (IZMF/IMAREAL)

14.11. Innovation sluices: Universities in pre-modern societies Frank Rexroth (Universität Göttingen)

21.11. Notes on University History Maria Dorninger (FB Germanistik)

28.11. Between polemics and politics – how the University of Vienna dealt with Judaism in the Middle Ages Eveline Brugger (INJÖST, St. Pölten)

05.12. Education and mobility in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period Ingrid Matschinegg (IZMF/IMAREAL)

12.12. University amd region Martin Knoll (FB Geschichte)

19.12. Video presentation: 400 years PLUS: Students tell the history of their university Ewald Hiebl, Karl Rothauer (FB Geschichte)

09. 01. 400 years of university history from the perspective of economic and social history Reinhold Reith (Salzburg)

16.01. Academic honors and discredits between affirmation and historical-political controversies Alexander Pinwinkler (Universität Wien)

23.01. Creation of meaning through rituals. On the boom in academic celebrations Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber (Universität Wien)

Concept and organization: Michael Brauer | Elisabeth Gruber

The lecture program will soon be found here.

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Material Worlds – The virtual salon of IMAREAL

Anna Vierlinger — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 12:21:40 +0000

We are pleased to inform you about the next lecture in the IMAREAL lecture series „Material Worlds – The virtual salon at IMAREAL.“

Daniel L. Smail: Household Containers and Their Uses. Marseille and Lucca, 1250-1450 Wednesday, 8^th June 2022, 5-7 p.m. (CET).

The lecture will take place online via Zoom. Afterwards, we would like to invite you to discuss the lecture in our virtual salon (via wonder.me). For more information, please look at the institution’s website.

Please register by using our conference tool, so you get access tot he Zoom meeting. We are looking forward to your participation!

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“Medieva…WHAT?! The relevance of researching the Middle Ages ” – Workshop

Anna Vierlinger — Tue, 31 May 2022 14:16:35 +0000

Due to Covid regulations our annual Junior Network Workshop had to be held online. This year, we are pleased to inform you, that it will once again take place at university.

We would like to give students and Phd candidates the opportunity to exchange views on the current relevance of researching the Middle Ages. Therefore, we invite students to present relevant bachelor’s, master’s and dissertation theses that are either still in progress or have already been completed. Of course, the workshop should also serve to discuss the contents, but this year the focus should be on the importance of one’s own work with regard to research and society. Especially in current debates, the humanities and cultural studies are repeatedly accused of being obsolete. We firmly disagree with this and invite you to give us your take on the matter. We are looking forward to hearing about your projects and their social contribution from all fields. Of course, we also invite all students who are at an earlier point in their studies and do not wish to present anything.

If you would like to talk about your project, please let us know by 6^th June 2022. For all others, who wish only to participate as active listeners, a simple e-mail is sufficient.

The workshop will take place on 17^th June 2022 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at UNIPARK 3.108.

We are looking forward to seeing you!

Contact: linda.beutel@plus.ac.at

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Conference in Innsbruck

Anna Vierlinger — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 12:28:10 +0000

We would like to invite you to the conference on „Bathing. A historical-topografical quest (Innsbruck – Ambras)“,which will take place on the 12^th and 13^th of May. The conference will be held online as well as in presence in Innsbruck. It is organised by the department “Theorizing the Body” of the Centre of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Innsbruck (CGI) in cooperation with Castle Ambras. Kordula Schnegg, Christina Antenhofer and Ulrich Leitner will manage the event.

Please take a look at the program and registration details here.

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Approved projects of the IZMF/IMAREAL

Anna Vierlinger — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:06:00 +0000

At the end of October three DH projects of the IZMF/IMAREAL were approved:

Digital Hohensalzburg. Linked historical data on material room furnishings and use of space: The aim of the project is the digital processing of the fortress Hohensalzburg and the accessibility to both academia and public. This will come to pass with use of new, interactive media.

The Wenzelsbibel: Digital edition and analysis: This project aims to generate the first digital edition and analysis of the Wenzelsbibel, which is the only largely complete and German speaking translation of the Hebrew Bible from the Latin Vulgata that was handed down.

How material came into the picture. Interdisciplinary research on cultural innovations using: Using AI this project aims to study paintings from the 14th and 15th centuries, in which particular interest is placed on materials and fabrics.

Please click here for more information: https://geschichte-studium.at/izmf/dh-projekte-am-izmf-imareal/ or Digitalisierung in der Wissenschaft

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Medieval Studies Wednesday

Anna Vierlinger — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 08:04:49 +0000

The IZMF junior network has been implemented to stimulate the scientific exchange of different disciplines dealing with the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Usually, we only come together once a year for the junior network workshop where we exchange ideas and get to know each other. However, since a single meeting once a year does not contribute much to ‘networking’, the ‘Medieval Studies Wednesday’ is now to be launched. We invite all students in the bachelor, master and doctoral programmes as well as post-docs of the University of Salzburg who are interested in the Middle Ages and the early modern period to participate in it. The ‘Medieval Studies Wednesday’ takes place on the last Wednesday of each month. We would like to give students and doctoral students the opportunity to exchange ideas, talk about their current work plans, or simply spend time with like-minded people.

The first meeting will take place on 27 October 2021 at 18:00 at the restaurant Zirkelwirt. Please register with linda.beutel@plus.ac.at by October 19th, in order to guarantee a place for you!

See you then!

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Lecture series of the IZMF in the winter semester 2021/2022: Dante and his Middle Ages

Anna Vierlinger — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 13:52:57 +0000

The 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death was on September 14, 2021. He is one of the most outstanding authors of world literature and the fascination of his work is unbroken. In this respect, Dante is highly contemporary. The lecture series, however, does not attempt to capture him and his work in their timeless significance, but rather wants to study the historical Dante of the time around 1300, the threshold author between the high and late Middle Ages and on the eve of the Renaissance.

The focus, of course, will be on Dante’s poetic and philosophical, Italian and Latin works. Following our interdisciplinary approach, the manifold interrelations with theology, philosophy and poetry of the Latin and vernacular Middle Ages will be dealt with next to those with antiquity, the massive interferences with visual arts and music, and, last but not least, defining the profiles of political developments of those Middle Ages that Dante shaped in his work and that shaped him and them.

The lecture will take place every Monday from 5:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. from Oct. 04, 2021 in HS 1 (Thomas Bernhard).
The lecture will also be available online. You may also rewatch certain episodes via UniTV.

To join online, please click the respective link:
04.10. „Sulle spalle di Gerione“ – Präsentation des Buches von Peter Kuon zur Commedia-Rezeption im 20. Jahrhundert PW: i38O6xzhkPVl-g
11.10. Einführung PW: OiHbzjsZSGPe2g
18.10. C. Antenhofer: Dante historisch kontextualisieren PW: zFlJfH5bh-HACw
08.11. G. Kreuz: Dante in der Tradition antiker Literatur(geschichte) PW: ENGEfG8_FZX5bw
15.11. M. Heinz: Dante und die Sprache PW: CHHM5lX0lP3g-Q
22.11. P. Kuon: Der Körper der Seelen in der Göttlichen Komödie PW: OGtgNeJFyZeSkA
29.11. C. Bosi: Dante und die Madrigalisten PW: TdjlVDAfq6YHTw
06.12. K. Smolak: Latein als Spätfolge von Babylon (zu De Vulgari Eloquentia 1) PW: t8gRjcpkF6382Q
13.12. B. Huss: Cato und Statius in Dantes Purgatorio PW: d9VtHnVwVbLzew
20.12. A. Eitel: Die bukolische Antwort Dantes an Giovanni del Virgilio PW: HLX30YIEP3xC5A
10.01. H. Schlie: Dante und Dürer PW: LtjEZXxoDYFB7w
17.01. F. Wille: Illuminierte Commedia-Manuskripte des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts PW: TqcMBs1ZErGVjg
24.01. Resümee PW: r0mclauuDqnCWQ

Concept and organization: Manfred Kern and Linda Beutel

The lecture program can be found here.

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The IZMF introduces itself: Christina Antenhofer

Linda Beutel — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 09:26:43 +0000

Christina Antenhofer…
… is reading Imperfect Alchemist by Naomi
Miller,… spends her evenings with good conversati
ons … and makes walks and mountain hikes to get her head free.

Christina Antenhofer is Professor of Medieval History and also the head of the IZMF. Today we would like to introduce her a little more:

You are the director of the Medieval Centre. Where does your enthusiasm for mediavitics come from?
We are everywhere surrounded by buildings and cities dating back to the Middle Ages. I am interested in what people lived here, what they experienced and what we can learn from them for our own time. I am fascinated that sources that are hundreds of years old can be deciphered and detective work can be done in the past. Moreover, looking into the past often also casts current questions in a different light. Last but not least, the current pandemic has aroused interest in historical pandemics such as the plague. But the Middle Ages, as a time before the nation-state, also teaches us to look at the current conflicts differently and to question current boundaries.

What qualities do you most appreciate about colleagues in research?
Curiosity, competence, interest in people, openness and, as with all people, an appreciative social interaction, humour and tolerance.

What’s the greatest true story you’ve ever heard?
That Friedrich II. carried out the only peaceful and at the same time successful crusade in 1228/29 by pure negotiation.

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Volume 10: ‘Poetry of Conflict’

Linda Beutel — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:45:39 +0000

Last year the 10th Volume of the series Interdisciplinary Contributions to the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times entitled Poetry of Conflict. Establishment and polemics published in the literatures of the Middle Ages was released:

The history of medieval literature is not only a story of continuity and a sense of tradition, but also one of the many innovations: the emergence of new poetic spelling languages and spellings, thus a new and newly reflected literaryity as a whole. The establishment of the new always has an agonal to polemical dimension, which must be examined in its aesthetic, cultural-historical and cultural-theoretical significance.

The volume makes a change of perspective compared to conventional representations by asking not from a pattern, schema and tradition-related nature, but from agonal relations and from aesthetic-cultural friction moments, for the ‘generative’ forces that make up the specific profile of the literary field in the Middle Ages. The subject is Romanesque, Middle High German, Middle English and Latin texts and text ualising traditions from the late 12th to the 14th century.

Anna Kathrin Bleuler und Manfred Kern (Hg.): Poesie des Widerstreits. Etablierung und Polemik in den Literaturen des Mittelalters. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2020 (Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zu Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit 10).

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Universitätsverlag WINTER Heidelberg

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Lecture Series of the IZMF in the winter semester 2020/2021: Object Links – Things in Relationship

administrator — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 10:23:37 +0000

The lecture series of the IZMF entitled Object Links – Things in Relationship is a central topic that the team of the Institute for Realestate studies of the Middle Ages and early modern times has dealt with in recent years: it is about the research of diverse connections between objects as well as between objects and people. How do things contribute to history? What are their meanings in a cultural and intellectual-historical horizon that goes beyond their context of use?

The questions within a history of things cannot be reduced to what they looked like, manufactured, spread, used, and charged with meaning. Rather, it asks how they are connected to each other and to people. Because people gain information about the material world and move within it by recognizing references and forming references. And also the theoretical concepts of things, their concepts, their connections and (symbolic) meanings can only be related to the practices associated with them. Thus, in order to be able to answer questions about the relationship between people and material culture, things must become observable as objects in the constellations, configurations and scenarios in which they are in some way significant or acting components.

The lecture series is offered as an analogue lecture format until further notice, the maximum room occupancy of the lecture hall is 40 people. Access is made according to the order in which the students arrive. Once the maximum occupancy number has been reached, access is no longer possible. The lecture can be followed online via Webex (sound and PowerPoint presentation). The access data is provided on Blackboard.

If access to the university’s premises is restricted again due to Covid measures, there will be a switch to digital teaching only.

The lecture will take place on Mondays from 17.15 to 18.45 (from 05.10.2019).

The lecture series was converted to the online format. Registered students can access the Blackboard. Access for external listeners can be requested by email from linda.beutel@sbg.ac.at

The lecture programme can be found here.

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