Conference: The Use of Water – practical habits and symbolic customs in the Middle Ages
Next year – 2015 – the German Society of Medievalists – the Mediävistenverbands – invites participants to take part in their 16th symposium. Theme of the conference is the “Use of Water” in both practical and symbolic contexts in the Middle Ages.
More than a hundred presentations aim to shed light on
1) Environment, climate and ecology
2) Transport, access and power-play
3) Science and Natural Philosophy
4) Water as symbol in religion, literature and art
The conference is interdisciplinary and presentations are given by historians, philologists, archaeologists, art-historians and others
As part of the conference guided tours through Bern with an introduction to the medieval wells and canals of the city will be organised
A full introduction to the conference can be found here
Full programme can be downloaded from the website of the Mediävistenverband
Gebrauch and Symbolik des Wassers in der mittelalterlichen Kultur
Bern, Haus Der Universität
23.03.2015 – 25.03.2015
