Medieval History
Central European University, Budapest, July 7-12, 2014
http://www.summer.ceu.hu/limes-2014
What is a frontier? Does it serve to separate or to link countries,
peoples, classes, ideas? Frontiers have become increasingly
significant in the study of Late Antiquity, the fastest growing
historical discipline, as scholars recognized the fundamental importance
of shifting barriers in the process of transformation that led from the
classical to the post-classical world. People living in the Roman world
between the second and the sixth century tore down many walls
demarcating cultures, religions, ethnicities. Frontiers once firmly
separating empires, ethnic groups, religions, friends and even the sexes
have been intensely crossed in late antiquity ? a phenomenon comparable
only to the recent transition from modernity to post-modernity -- a
comparison that we intend to exploit in our methodology.
The ?Bright Frontier? summer course explores the dynamic transformation
of classical frontiers between the second and the sixth century from a
multidisciplinary perspective: archaeology, medieval studies, social and
cultural history, art, theology, and literature. Offering a
groundbreaking approach to the field of border studies including social,
gender, ethnic and religious categories with the participation of
outstanding scholars in the field, this course will provide students
with a solid knowledge of up-to-date international scholarship on
frontiers: a strong theoretical background as well as hands-on
acquaintance with physical borders and material artifacts excavated
along the Danube River (the ripa Pannonica) as well as in the late
antique cemetery of Pécs in Hungary.
Course Director(s):
Marianne Saghy
Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest,
Hungary
Noel Lenski
Department of Classics, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Rita Lizzi Testa
Department of Roman History, University of Perugia, Italy
Course Faculty:
Claudia-Maria Behling
Department of Classical Archeology, University of Vienna, Austria
Maijastina Kahlos
Finnish Academy of Science, Finland
Levente Nagy
Department of Contemporary History, University of Pecs, Hungary
Anna Toth
Karoli Gaspar University, Budapest, Hungary
Zsolt Visy
Department of Archaeology, University of Pecs, Hungary
Guest Speaker(s):
Sylvia Palagyi
Museum Directorate of Veszprém County, Roman Villa Complex, Hungary
Adam Szabo
Archaeology, Hungarian National Museum, Hungary
Paula Zsidi
Budapest Historic Museum, Aquincum, Hungary
- The Carolingian Frontier And Its Neighbours
University of Cambridge, 4-6 July, 2014While recent scholarship has done much to illuminate early medieval frontiers, the relationship between the Carolingian frontier and its neighbouring societies has yet to be the focus of sustained, comparative discussion....
- Call For Applicants: Neh Summer Institute (barcelona, July 2012)
Call for ApplicationsDEADLINE REMINDER1 March 2012 - Email and postmark deadline for applications.Networks and Knowledge in the Medieval Muslim-Christian-Jewish Mediterranean*The Mediterranean Seminar http://www.mediterraneanseminar.org/ announces...
- Reminder: Shifting Frontiers Conference Cfp
A reminder that the deadline for proposals is October 15, 2008 The Eighth Biennial SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY CONFERENCE "Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity" Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana April 2-5, 2009 The Society for...
- Shifting Frontiers Late Antiquity Cfp
The Eighth Biennial SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY CONFERENCE " Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity " Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana April 2-5, 2009 The Society for Late Antiquity announces that the Eighth Biennial Conference...
- Shifting Frontiers Cfp
CALL FOR PAPERS - deadline October 15, 2008 The Eighth Biennial SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY CONFERENCE "Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity" Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana April 2-5, 2009 http://www.indiana.edu/~sf8/ The...
Medieval History
Summer Intensive Course - Luminosus Limes: Geographical, Ethnic, Social and Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity
Central European University, Budapest, July 7-12, 2014
http://www.summer.ceu.hu/limes-2014
What is a frontier? Does it serve to separate or to link countries,
peoples, classes, ideas? Frontiers have become increasingly
significant in the study of Late Antiquity, the fastest growing
historical discipline, as scholars recognized the fundamental importance
of shifting barriers in the process of transformation that led from the
classical to the post-classical world. People living in the Roman world
between the second and the sixth century tore down many walls
demarcating cultures, religions, ethnicities. Frontiers once firmly
separating empires, ethnic groups, religions, friends and even the sexes
have been intensely crossed in late antiquity ? a phenomenon comparable
only to the recent transition from modernity to post-modernity -- a
comparison that we intend to exploit in our methodology.
The ?Bright Frontier? summer course explores the dynamic transformation
of classical frontiers between the second and the sixth century from a
multidisciplinary perspective: archaeology, medieval studies, social and
cultural history, art, theology, and literature. Offering a
groundbreaking approach to the field of border studies including social,
gender, ethnic and religious categories with the participation of
outstanding scholars in the field, this course will provide students
with a solid knowledge of up-to-date international scholarship on
frontiers: a strong theoretical background as well as hands-on
acquaintance with physical borders and material artifacts excavated
along the Danube River (the ripa Pannonica) as well as in the late
antique cemetery of Pécs in Hungary.
Course Director(s):
Marianne Saghy
Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest,
Hungary
Noel Lenski
Department of Classics, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Rita Lizzi Testa
Department of Roman History, University of Perugia, Italy
Course Faculty:
Claudia-Maria Behling
Department of Classical Archeology, University of Vienna, Austria
Maijastina Kahlos
Finnish Academy of Science, Finland
Levente Nagy
Department of Contemporary History, University of Pecs, Hungary
Anna Toth
Karoli Gaspar University, Budapest, Hungary
Zsolt Visy
Department of Archaeology, University of Pecs, Hungary
Guest Speaker(s):
Sylvia Palagyi
Museum Directorate of Veszprém County, Roman Villa Complex, Hungary
Adam Szabo
Archaeology, Hungarian National Museum, Hungary
Paula Zsidi
Budapest Historic Museum, Aquincum, Hungary
- The Carolingian Frontier And Its Neighbours
University of Cambridge, 4-6 July, 2014While recent scholarship has done much to illuminate early medieval frontiers, the relationship between the Carolingian frontier and its neighbouring societies has yet to be the focus of sustained, comparative discussion....
- Call For Applicants: Neh Summer Institute (barcelona, July 2012)
Call for ApplicationsDEADLINE REMINDER1 March 2012 - Email and postmark deadline for applications.Networks and Knowledge in the Medieval Muslim-Christian-Jewish Mediterranean*The Mediterranean Seminar http://www.mediterraneanseminar.org/ announces...
- Reminder: Shifting Frontiers Conference Cfp
A reminder that the deadline for proposals is October 15, 2008 The Eighth Biennial SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY CONFERENCE "Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity" Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana April 2-5, 2009 The Society for...
- Shifting Frontiers Late Antiquity Cfp
The Eighth Biennial SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY CONFERENCE " Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity " Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana April 2-5, 2009 The Society for Late Antiquity announces that the Eighth Biennial Conference...
- Shifting Frontiers Cfp
CALL FOR PAPERS - deadline October 15, 2008 The Eighth Biennial SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY CONFERENCE "Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity" Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana April 2-5, 2009 http://www.indiana.edu/~sf8/ The...