For its 24th edition, the International Art Symposium at Issoire will focus on the “land” – both uses of the land and artistic renderings of “the land” in the Romanesque period.
Co-organized by Terres romans d’Auvergne, archiclassique and the heritage of the city center of Issoire, with the support of the Municipality of Issoire and university alliance Auvergne, this conference will be under the patronage of the French Archaeological Society and the Academy of Sciences, Literature and Arts of Clermont-Ferrand.
Background
In general, the Romanesque period is often looked upon through the prism of elites, clergy and laity and their artistic and monumental production. Conferences and scientific publications through the last decades show a continued infatuation with the prestigious civil and religious monuments and the often remarkable individuals, who
Studies of the peasants and their world remain more marginal even though this aspect is equally important in order to understand life in the 11th and 12 centuries.
Being a predominantly rural and agrarian society, land was par excellence the major factor in the feudal world. The aim of this conference is to place it in the agenda in relation to the iconographic sources of the Romanesque period – paintings in the manuscripts, sculptures, murals, etc. But also textual sources like charters, records, documents pertaining to management, literary texts will be considered in relation to the artistic milieu in the Romanesque period. In short: the rationale is to bring archaeologists, historians and art-historians under the same roof.
Some fields and topics of investigations may be privileged. However, other approaches are also welcome:
Land and life:
– Mother Earth: agriculture, horticulture, viticulture, production, storage, conservation, consumption patterns of the products of the earth, abundance and periods of time shortages, etc.
– Earth as material: as building material, for fencing, as a material for manufacturing kitchenware, crockery clay, etc.
– Workers related to land: farmers, herders, serfs and their costumes, tools, etc..
Land in the feudal organization:
– Land and territory: reports of habitats, forests, croplands and territorial control.
-Soil: surface measurements, capacity, quality of soil, the right to property, etc..
– The economy of the earth: seigniorial levy, land markets etc.
The symbolic dimension of the earth in the Romanesque period
– The status of work on the land in medieval society: Sentencing and legitimation; work of the land in the monastic life and representation of the earth in sculptures, paintings, etc.
– The symbolism of the Heavens in the texts and iconography and the role of land in the Creation
– The land of the dead: the consecrated ground and the unconsecrated; choices and special status of burial grounds, planting rites, forgotten cemeteries and discoveries etc.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline for abstracts is May 15, 2014 (title of the paper and summary of maximum 10 lines in French and English). Meeting of the Scientific Council and development program will take place in early July 2014. You will immediately receive an email notifying you of the decision of the Scientific Council.
17, 18 and 19 October 2014: conference and tour.
May 15, 2015: Deadline for submission of papers for publication.
October 2015: publication of the proceedings.
Proposals for papers must be returned before May 15, 2014 by email to davbmorel@gmail.com and annieregond@gmail.com .
Scientific Committee
Ouardia Touahri, Secrétaire de l’association Terres Romanes d’Auvergne, Conseillère municipale à la ville d’Issoire.
Pierre Deneuve, Responsable adjoint du Centre d’art roman Georges-Duby d’Issoire.
Jean-Luc Fray, Professeur d’histoire médiévale de l’Université Blaise-Pascal de Clermont-Ferrand – Centre d’Histoire Espaces et Cultures, Clermont-Ferrand.
Martine Jullian, Maître de conférences honoraire en histoire de l’art médiéval à l’Université Pierre Mendès France de Grenoble.
Annie Regond, Maître de conférences en histoire de l’art moderne à l’Université Blaise-Pascal de Clermont-Ferrand – Centre d’Histoire Espaces et Cultures – Clermont-Ferrand.
Pascale Chevalier, Maître de conférences en histoire de l’art et archéologie médiévale à l’Université Blaise-Pascal de Clermont-Ferrand – ARTeHIS – CNRS UMR 6298, Dijon.
Alessia Trivellone, Maître de conférences en histoire médiévale à l’Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3 – Centre d’Études médiévales de Montpellier.
David Morel, Docteur en histoire de l’art et archéologie médiévale de l’Université Blaise Pascal de Clermont-Ferrand – Ingénieur de recherches en archéologie médiévale, bureau d’investigations archéologiques Hadès, Cournon d’Auvergne.
Marie Charbonnel, Docteure en histoire de l’art et archéologie médiévale de l’Université Blaise Pascal de Clermont-Ferrand – Chargée de recherches postdoctorales à l’Université de Haute-Bretagne de Rennes – Centre de recherches historiques de l’ouest – ANR MARGEC – CNRS UMR 6258, Rennes.
Nathanaël Nimmegeers, Docteur en histoire médiévale, chercheur contractuel à l´Ecole des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques (Casa de Velázquez, Madrid), CIHAM-UMR 5648, (Lyon).
Sébastien Fray, Docteur en histoire médiévale de l’Université de Paris 4 – Panthéon Sorbonne. Membre associé du Centre d’Histoire « Espaces et cultures » (CHEC, Université Blaise-Pascal de Clermont-Ferrand).
La terre à l’époque romane. Exploitations, usages et représentations
la Halle aux grains de la ville d’Issoire, située place du général de Gaulle, 63500 Issoire (Puy-de-Dôme – France)
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