Communication and Knowledge Transfer in Medieval Monastic Network: Knowledge Transfer: Forms and Material Evidence - II. International Workshop of the CEU and FOVOG Project

Type: 
Workshop
Audience: 
CEU Community + Invited Guests
Building: 
Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Room: 
201
Monday, November 30, 2015 - 9:00am
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Monday, November 30, 2015 - 9:00am to Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 6:00pm

Communication and Knowledge Transfer in Medieval Monastic Network:
Knowledge Transfer: Forms and Material Evidence
Kommunikation und Wissenstransfer
in monastischen Netzwerken des Mittelalters:
Wissenstransfer: Konkretes

II. International Workshop of the CEU and FOVOG Project
II. Internationaler Arbeitstreffen der CEU (Ungarn) - FOVOG (Deutschland)

(Budapest -Hungary, 30 November - 02 December, 2015)

Location: 2015 Nov 30, 09:00 - 18:00 Monument Building, 201 video conf.
2015 Dec 01, 09:00 - 18:00 N11/004

Knowledge transfer and exchange of ideas cannot be reduced to the topics connected to the main ideas and basic concepts of monastic life. The exchange of texts were also relevant not only for the spiritual life of monasteries, but also for the practice oriented knowledge in many different fields; agricultural production, gardens, viticulture, economy, medicine, art and architecture. Until recently these aspects were mainly studied in the context of economic history of individual monasteries. On the basis of these studies the monastic world of the Middle Ages has often been seen as the moving spirit of the general technological and industrial development processes. Much less attention has been paid to the actual exchange processes in the monastic networks and information systems. The main goal of this workshop is to focus on the material evidence and context of these transfers in a comparative way, taking into account the Western-, Central-, Southern- and Eastern European perspectives of these issues. These ideas are also used as starting points to compare the knowledge transfer in monastic networks detected in other areas and other religions.
Neben dem Austausch von monastischen Leitideen, von Lebenskonzepten und spirituellen Texten existierte ein intensiver Transfer von praxisorientiertem Wissen: Ackerbau, Gartennutzung und Weinbau, Wirtschaft, Medizin, Kunst und Architektur. Bislang wurden diese Wissensbestände zumeist in den wirtschaftshistorischen Kontext einzelner Klöster gestellt. Darüber hinaus untersuchte man die Relevanz der mittelalterlichen Klosterwelt als Motor allgemeiner technischer und industrieller Entwicklungsprozesse. Weit weniger Aufmerksamkeit erfuhr unterdessen die Zirkulation solcher konkreten Inhalte innerhalb der monastischen Informationssysteme. Hauptziel dieses Arbeitstreffens soll es darum sein, gerade solche Transfers erstmals in eine West-, Mittel-, Süd- und Osteuropa einschließende komparative Perspektive zu rücken. Darüber hinaus möchten wir sie um den Vergleich mit Wissenstransfers aus monastischen Netzwerken anderer Religionen erweitern.

Preliminary Program

30th November, Monday
Nádor u. 9., Monument Building, 201

10.00 Cristina Andenna (FOVOG) and Gábor Klaniczay (CEU): Introduction

10.00 - 13.00 Communication within the Monastic Networks and the World Around

Marianne Sághy (CEU): Ascetic Communication and Knowledge Transfer between East and West in Sulpicius Severus' Dialogues
Jörg Sonntag (FOVOG): Playful Communication. Medieval Monks and Nuns as Generators and Mediators of Entertainment Games

Coffee break

Michael Hänchen (FOVOG): Communication and Donations for the Soul. The Influence of Exogenous Events on the Memorial-Donation System in 14th Century Passau
Cristina Andenna (FOVOG): Exchange of "Holy Gifts" as Form of Communication?
Zsuzsa Pető (CEU): Roads and Communication. The Pauline Order

Lunch break

14.30 - 17.00 Communication: Legal and Social Aspects

Daniel Ziemann (CEU): Facts and Fiction. Canon Law Manuscripts and Monasticism in the Ninth Century.
Paige Richmond (CEU): Liturgy and Literature: the Implications of Commemorative Activity at Quedlinburg and Gandersheim in the Ottonian Period

Coffee break

Alexander Haas (FOVOG): "Social planning" in the Middle Ages? The Dispositio novi ordinis of Joachim of Fiore
Nicholas Youmans (FOVOG): Spiritual Salvation and Knightly Honour: The Identity of the Military-Religious Orders in light of their Symbolic Acts

1st December, Tuesday
Nádor u. 11, 004

10.00 - 13.00 Monastic Economy and Trade

Beatrix Romhányi (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Budapest): Monastic Involvement in the Trade of Transylvanian Salt (cca. 1100-1235)
József Laszlovszky (CEU): Material and Spiritual Decline of a Monastery. The Archaeological and the Written Evidence

Coffee break

Spatial Issues, Monastic Landscapes, and Communication

Ünige Bencze (CEU): A Landscape Reconstruction: Written Sources, Historic Maps and Field Work
Elif Demirtiken (CEU): Different Kinds of Monastic Communication in Byzantine Constantinople
Anna Adashinskaya (CEU): tba.

Lunch break

14.30 - 17.00 Art and Architecture

Béla Zsolt Szakács (CEU): The Transfer of Architectural Ideas in the Monasteries of Medieval Hungary
Vargha Mária (CEU): Monasteries and Churches Built with Ashlar Masonry

Coffee break

Karen Stark (CEU): The Virgin Materialized: The Spread and Success of Marian Cult Objects in Central Europe (14th-16th c.)
Kristian Bertović (CEU): Creating a Bishopric - Fifteenth Century Frankapan Church Policy as a Token of Social and Political Power

Final discussion

2nd December, Wednesday

11.00
Faculty Tower, 708
Pre-defense of the doctoral dissertation of László Ferenczi (CEU) on the monastic economy and estate systems of the Cistercian order in Central-Europe. (Thesis supervisor: József Laszlovszky, external reader: Emilia Jamroziak, chapter readers: PhD students of the CEU Medieval Studies program).

17.30
Faculty Tower, 409
Public lecture in the framework of Faculty Research Seminar of the CEU Medieval Studies Department:
Emilia Jamroziak (FOVOG-Leeds University): Late Medieval Cistercian Communities and the Cult of saints as a Trans-European and Regional Phenomenon