Medieval Association

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Medievalist Association eV
purpose Promotion of interdisciplinary research on the Middle Ages
Chair: Wolfram Drews (President)
Establishment date: 1983
Number of members: 1128
Seat : Frankfurt am Main , Germany
Website: www.mediaevistenverband.de

The Medieval Association is an association of predominantly German-speaking scientists and students from various humanities subjects who deal with the Middle Ages . The association was founded in 1983. It has the legal form of a registered association (eV) with its seat in Frankfurt am Main . It includes (as of 2017) around 1130 scientists, mainly from Germany. With its founding, the aim was to create a transdisciplinary forum for medieval studies that bridged traditional subject boundaries in the sense of Anglo-American Medieval Studies or the French Études Médiévales . In this regard, the association sees itself as an additional option to the representation of the individual subjects (which are mostly organized across epochs) such as the Association of Historians or the Association of Romanists .

The advisory board of Mediävistenverbandes the subjects are English Studies , Medieval Archeology , Byzantine Studies , German Studies , History , Historical auxiliary / Basic Sciences , Islamic Studies , Jewish Studies , Art History , Medicine - / History , Medieval Latin , musicology , philosophy , legal history , Romance studies , Scandinavian studies and theology represented; In addition, there are three functional positions for medieval studies and schools, young talent and public relations. The association is managed by a five-person presidium. The current (2017) president is Wolfram Drews (history, Münster), vice-president Matthias Müller (art history, Mainz), treasurer Albrecht Fuess (Islamic studies, Marburg), secretary Regina Toepfer (German studies, Braunschweig) and representative of the next conference venue Volker Leppin (ev Church history, Tübingen).

The association supports the networking of the medieval subjects at the German-speaking universities, some of which are now institutionalized as Middle Ages Studies , Middle Ages Centers or similar. It organizes an interdisciplinary symposium every two years, arranges contacts abroad and offers summer schools , a handwriting course and seminars for young scientists. Since 1996 he has published the journal Das Mittelalter , which appears every six months (until 2013 with Akademie Verlag , since 2014 with de Gruyter ), as well as his own series of specialist books (supplements to Das Mittelalter), also with de Gruyter. The files of the symposia of the association have been published in this series since 2015, but also other anthologies and monographs.

President of the Medieval Society

Symposia of the Medievalist Association

The symposia take place every two years:

  • 18th Symposium: Creating and Imitating. Creative processes in the Middle Ages from March 17th to 20th, 2019 in Tübingen .
  • 17th Symposium: Secret and Unseen from March 19 to 22, 2017 in Bonn
  • 16th symposium: Use and symbolism of water in medieval culture from March 22nd to 25th, 2015 in Bern
  • 15th Symposium: Abraham's Legacy - Competition, Conflict, Coexistence in the Middle Ages from March 3 to 6, 2013 in Heidelberg
  • 14th Symposium: God's Work and Adam's Contribution - Forms of Interaction between Man and God in the Middle Ages 2011 in Jena
  • 13th Symposium: 'Colored Middle Ages' ?! Color as matter, sign and projection in the world of the Middle Ages 2009 in Bamberg
  • 12th Symposium: Kinship, Friendship, Brotherhood ... Social Life and Communication Forms in the Middle Ages 2007 in Trier
  • 11th Symposium: Borders and Crossing Borders in the Middle Ages 2005 in Frankfurt an der Oder
  • 10th Symposium: Virtual Spaces - Spatial Perception and Imagination in the Middle Ages 2003 in Krems
  • 9th Symposium: Nature in the Middle Ages: Concepts, Experiences, Effects 2001 in Marburg
  • 8th symposium: Charlemagne and the legacy of cultures 1999 in Leipzig
  • 7th Symposium: Artes in the Middle Ages 1997 in Berlin
  • 6th Symposium: Middle Ages and Modernity 1995 in Bayreuth
  • 5th Symposium: Rhythm and Seasonality 1993 in Göttingen
  • 4th Symposium: The Encounter between the West and the East in Cologne in 1991
  • 3rd Symposium: Festivals and Celebrations in the Middle Ages 1989 in Paderborn
  • 2nd Symposium: Continuity and Transformation of Antiquity in the Middle Ages 1987 in Freiburg
  • 1st Symposium: Connections, Influences, Effects 1985 in Tübingen

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Symposium 2017 in Bonn
  2. ^ List of symposia on the website of the Medievalist Association
  3. ↑ www.farbiges-mittelalter.de Symposium in Bamberg (March 2009) ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.farbiges-mittelalter.de
  4. ^ Joerg O. Fichte; Karl Heinz Göller and Bernhard Schimmelpfennig (eds.): Connections, influences, effects. Congress files for the first symposium of the Medievalist Association in Tübingen 1984. Berlin et al. 1986.