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Medieval Water Conference in Bern 2015

Water in Medieval Culture

Water in Medieval Culture – The 16th Symposium of the Mediävistenverband will be held at the University of Bern 22.03.2015 – 25.03.2015

Water is life. Individual organisms, social formations and cultural acheivements all depend on Water. It is used in both pragmatic and symbolic contexts. Being a life-sustaining as well as destructive force, water connects and divides, absolves and dissolves. Society as a whole and individual institutions alike need to engage with and adapt to these ambivalent aspects of water. As a natural element, water provokes cultural reactions in regard to its utilization, evaluation and symbolism. The different functions water fulfills in the natural world are also addressed and negotiated in literature and visual arts.

The conference aims to shed light on

  • Environment – Climate- Ecology
  • Means of Transportation, Boundary, Bases of Power
  • Natural History and Natural Philosophy
  • Symbolism (Symbolbildungen)

 Full CFP may be viewed here

Please send proposals before the 28th of februar to wasser2015@kps.unibe.ch

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Gelinde Huber-Rebenich
Institut für Klassische Philologie
Universität Bern
Länggassstrasse 49
CH-3012 Bern

Water in Medieval Culture – The 16th Symposium of the Mediävistenverband.
University of Bern
22.03.2015 – 25.03.2015
CFP (Deadline): 28.02.2014

 

Medieval Hunting Cover

Medieval Hunting

Richard Almond’s study brings vividly to life the universality and centrality of hunting to medieval societies, both as an economic necessity and as an expression love of nature

Medieval Hunting
By Richard Almond
The History Press 2011
ISBN: 9780752474625 (E-book)
ISBN: 9780752459493

ABSTRACT

Hunting was a major economic and leisure activity throughout the European Middle Ages, and while aristocratic practices have featured in studies of romantic and narrative literature, hunting in its wider sense, across the social spectrum with attendant male and female roles, has larged been ignored by modern medieval historians. Richard Almond’s study brings vividly to life the universality and centrality of hunting to medieval societies, both as an economic necessity and as an expression of medieval humanity’s amost atavistic sense of oneness with nature. Medieval Hunting dispels some of the myths and misunderstandings about hunting, including the persistent view that it was exclusively an aristocratic pursuit and a male one at that. Using a wide variety of contemporary textual and art historical evidence, Richard Almond demonstrates convincingly that hunting, including fishing and all manner of poaching, was enjoyed by all classes, and by women as well as men.