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or one then two come along at once one in turkey for which grand claims are being made for which link a hat tip to georgia michael of the university of birmingham and one off turkey which is just really cool to look at submerged foundations of a byzantine church in lake iznik turkey and then there s an especially shiny hoard of roman and non roman silver from scotland which people are using to draw conclusions about the picts in a period before all of us would be comfortable using the word for which link i owe a tip of that same hat to the crofter 1 objects from the gaulcross hoard sad news while writing the long delayed post on the bíblia de danila i noted briefly that to my sadness john williams a scholar of the art of the medieval iberian peninsula whom i did not know but whose work has been very useful to me had died here s a memorial of the sort he richly deserved interesting research we have here a pedigree as it were of looking at work on genetics with a critical eye this new study looks better than usual and i ll have to give it its own post the hat is here tipped to james palmer at merovingianworld quality medievalism if you re going to try to relive the middle ages then your soundtrack needs to be right amirite here s an example of how to do it resuming my metaphorical hat i now tip it to z the cold hearted scientist for passing this my way resources a museum in japan has some old maps perhaps not surprising even if they have obligingly put them on the web but medieval maps don t usually work the way we expect and it turns out that there are eighth century maps of field systems in here which kind of do obviously this is japan so links to what i do not at all except that here are people using the kind of tools we would use for the kind of jobs that our study population must too have had but for which they used well we don t know but it s one in the eye for all those who suggest that representational cartography has to postdate some major western intellectual development innit maybe you don t care as much as i do about this but rebecca darley who provided me with the link and to whom the hat is now tipped probably does so i bet there are others too map of the field at ikarugi tonami district etchū province then fellow frontiers and charters enthusiast igor santos salazar has let me know about this monumental task on which he has been engaged a database of the judicial records from medieval tuscany which is now online lavoro erculaneo igor and lastly in this section they said it would never happen several people died in the course of trying to do it it has been complicated by two world wars international tension and the iron curtain to say nothing of funding and staffing troubles but it is done the charters of emperor louis the pious 814 840 are published at last 2 here not a tip of the hat but sincere congratulations to herr professor theo kölzer for making it to the end of such an inauspicious task this is cool lastly much more in my regular line firstly just a really cool spanish church site well written up and photographed for which thanks to josé manuel serrano esperanza for introducing it to me and now to you san zoilo de cáseda navarra and then last of all heard of only today an exhibition opening on monday at the yorkshire museum in york entitled constantius york s forgotten emperor curated by an old colleague of mine andy woods which exhibition has been brought about by the discovery of a huge hoard of constantius i s coins that the museum hopes to acquire do have a look 1 there s an actual article behind this one which a quick websearch reveals as gordon noble martin goldberg alistair mcpherson and oskar sveinbjarnarson re discovering the gaulcross hoard in antiquity vol 90 cambridge 2016 pp 726 741 2 on the troubles of the project up to 1990 see peter johanek probleme einer zukünftigen edition der urkunden ludwigs der frommen in roger collins peter godman edd charlemagne s heir new perspectives on the reign of louis the pious oxford 1990 pp 409 424 53 799461 1 600789 21 comments posted on 21 july 2016 in archaeology byzantium carolingians charters england italy numismatics picts resources romans spain tagged andy woods cambridge songs church archæology coin hoards constantius i databases genetics georgia michael hurriyet igor santos salazar japan louis the pious maps medieval agriculture navarra theo kölzer yorkshire museum kalamazoo 2015 part 2 posted on 18 july 2016 6 comments the second day of the 2015 international congress on medieval studies which is where my reporting backlog currently sits alas began reflectively 226 the nature of the middle ages a problem for historians a roundtable i went along to this mainly for reasons of celebrity spotting but it s also often interesting to hear veterans of the field talk about what the field actually is and to set it against one s own perspectives there are dynamics here about how elevated you get before your bird s eye view becomes cloud cuckoo land but equally ones about being so close to the ground that you define the whole world by your local topography and so on all of this was given extra meat by this icms being the 50th provoking reflection on the icms itself as much as anything the scheduled presenters each picked their own targets for their muses as follows robin fleming what material turn marcus bull the study of the middle ages and the dread word relevance ruth mazo karras not quite fifty years of women s history at kalamazoo paul freedman changing subjects in medieval history nancy partner medieval people psyche self emotions some of these were complaints and some reflections professor fleming told everyone else that we don t use objects enough in our history and the conference programme certainly gave her a basis for the stance professor mazo karras charted the growth of the history of women from the archive of icms programmes the first session on women at the icms was only eight years coming but the take off point for her was when societies started to form to do the work elsewhere professor freedman who was one of the first people to realise how great vic is as a place to work on and whom i was glad to meet at last had done similar analysis and noted among other things that at the second ever icms there had been seven women presenting four of whom were nuns but also that english literature and english history still dominate the programme but that the rest has diversified hugely since 1965 professor partner spoke mainly of periodization and the problem of difference between us and our subjects which she argued could only be approached by deliberately seeking the interiority of our sources a kind of depth psychology of course it now strikes me that the very word roundtable is a medievalism not something that any of the participants mentioned but the site i got this image from epitomises the medievalism pretty well this opened up the question of the session title perhaps more than the others had and discussion went two ways one following this asking what we could do to avoid the problems of the terms middle ages and medieval which have myriad difficulties because of being defined only by whatever lies outside them and not having clear ends professor partner had argued half jokingly for really early modern but david perry one of the organisers argued that it means more to people outside the academy than it does to us and steven muhlberger continued that by saying that the emptiness of the category actually serves us by allowing us to fill it with whatever suits us true useful but hard to make into a clear mission statement i think periodization and women s history what we re up against grabbed just now from the web this desire for a mission statement was what had occupied professor bull s contribution which i haven t yet discussed this is because it seemed to me a much more uk focused perspective than the others and to sit oddly with them his was a pitch familiar to me from my years in oxford in fact roughly that that we should stop paying attention to governments and managerial bodies who want us to justify our subject especially in terms of its relevance to the era in which we live not least because we medievalists will always lose to the modernists in such a contest but also because modern day relevance must by its nature shift all the time so can t be a foundation i accept the logic of this but it seems to me that this is only a fortification that can morally be erected by those who have no outside paymasters oxford had been mostly aggrieved that those of its paymasters whom it had trained didn t seem inclined to respect that privilege and obviously that someone pays some of your money doesn t mean that they should get to set all of your agenda but to argue that they can set none of it because what we do is just worthy of support whatever it is is i fear unlikely ever to convince those with nationally accountable beans to count but why should we stop now when we re beginning to get books out of it i am tempted to ask cover of simon doubleday david coleman edd in the light of medieval spain islam the west and the relevance of the past london 2014 the people who picked up on this in discussion seemed mostly to argue that our use to the wider world is not to show how the middle ages is like whatever is now happening but to show when other people who are saying that are wrong i feel the push to do that very strongly myself as you may be aware and have long argued that to use history is almost always to misuse it but behind this is an idea of a correct empirical and detached vision of the middle ages whose perfect fruition would be that no one outside the academy ever derived any benefit from the study of the past at all except in a pure æsthetic form if they discovered anything that was relevant it would have almost to be suppressed before it got into others hands it seems to me that people are always going to have reasons why they find this stuff interesting and the best we can do is to train them to find it interesting enough to be careful with it you can tell anyway that this interests me as a subject of discussion but i still wish we could have the discussion with the economics in as an earlier defender of this view said money doesn t stink you d think we couldn t strike for more of it without considering where it comes to us from but it seems not so so anyway from here to coffee and calmer waters 248 the venerable bede issues and controversies i thomas rochester the place of luke and acts in constructing bede s ecclesiastical history morn capper bede and the making of mercian supremacy challenging the construct sarah mccann nodes of influence networks people and the writing of history it is of course impossible entirely to avoid bede or beowulf at the icms but in this instance i would of course have gone anyway because of the presence of morn capper long standing friend of both this blog and your blogger morn s paper argued that the groundwork for the period of the eighth century in which the kingdom of mercia dominated england was largely laid in the seventh century when bede was in some sense watching and yet he tells us very little about how it was done for him mercia under the famous king penda only shows up when it was on the warpath whereas our sources for his successors wulfhere and æthelred emphasise negotiation alliance and sometimes infrastructure as morn said all of these rulers must have done all of these things but bede is mainly interested in how far they supported the church and so the version of mercia we get from him is very partial indeed as for the other two both were at a very preliminary stage mr rochester to establish biblical models for bede s structuring of the ecclesiastical history and miss mccann to build a network model of the history using gephi and it doesn t seem kind to mount a critique of their work here 315 fluctuating networks the constructive role of broken bonds in the medieval mediterranean and beyond robert portass the peasant parvenu social climbing in tenth century spain petra melichar noble women and their broken allegiances in late byzantium arthur westwell studios a network of alternative power in ninth century constantinople here likewise i had mainly come because of the presence of a colleague of yore rob portass but his paper sat rather oddly in the session as it was principally about bonds formed not broken between local transactors in galicia which is after all kind of rob s stuff 1 he was arguing that confrontation with the actual documents mainly here those of santo toribio de liébana showed you peasants making deals with each other and advancing relative to each other rather than the narrative of the historiography of the area which shows you landlords beating down on peasant necks 2 well not here says rob meanwhile the other two had picked up on the theme a bit more ms melichar looked at the different ties late byzantine noblewomen could break with family orthodoxy political networks and so on usually to stay connected to one of the other of these sets but as she pointed out never as far as we can see to advance their own positions rather than those of the networks within which they worked lastly mr westwell set out a case for the monastery of st john the forerunner of stoudios as a long lived safe focus for opposition to imperial religious policies in eighth and ninth century constantinople although the high point of that was the abbot theodore who set himself and his monks to guard what they saw as orthodoxy through a series of theological disputes and mounted that defence not least by many many letters to people at court ex monks who had gone on to serve elsewhere friendly church officials and noblemen and women not just mobilising support but giving backing to those people s own opposition this was a whole world of source material i d had no idea about and for me one of the eye openers of the conference that was the end of the academic programme for me on this day if i remember rightly we now met back up with morn and set out to walk to the legendary bilbo s a required rite de pizza for the medievalist visiting kalamazoo we had no driver so set out to walk it which is perfectly doable as long as you can work out which way to head and that i eventually did after being 180 wrong to start with that was worth it for the guy we checked directions with however who despite being of apparently normal build and health counselled us to get a cab it s a hell of a walk gotta be half a mile at least we assured him that in britain that is ok to walk and enjoyed our pizza and beer all the more for the adventure and that was how we wrapped up day two of kalamazoo 2015 1 as witness robert portass rethinking the small worlds of tenth century galicia in studia historica historia medieval vol 31 salamanca 2013 pp 83 103 2 classically presented in reyna pastor 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