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Conference presentation at ISA RC 54 “The Challenge of the Global Migrant” in...
Caroline Schöpf presented a paper at the International Sociological Association RC54 conference “The Challenge of the Global Migrant” in Rome, Italy. The presentation received positive feedback and...
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CFP Games and Competition in Medieval Societies
Call for Papers Games and competitions in medieval societies Conference 14–17 February 2018, German Historical Institute Paris Deadline: 15 September 2017 (Other languages see below) Particular games...
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La rentrée, das ist diese französische Phänomen, wenn alle aus dem Urlaub zurück kommen und Paris aus dem Sommerschlaf erwacht und der Unibetrieb wieder beginnt. Gelegenheit für uns vom Blog also, nach...
View ArticleColloque/conference: Giocare tra medioevo ed età moderna. Modelli etici ed...
Treviso, Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, 17 et 18 novembre 2017 Argumentaire: Des études récentes sur l’histoire de la « ludicità » dans l’espace européen ont montré dans quelle mesure ‘le jouer’...
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Conference Report: Educational Games and Ludic Knowledge
Let’s finish the year 2017 with a look back and a look ahead at the same time. Early 2018 will see the publication of the second volume of the conference preceedings on « Educational games and ludic...
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Conference 14-17 February 2018: Games and Competitions in Medieval Societies
Click here to get the conference program ! Presentation Particular games and contexts have attracted wide interest in recent research. But further studies are needed on the cultural history of the...
View ArticleLaurent Quisefit (EHESS)
Stone Fights in Medieval Korea: Game, Fighting or Ritual? For perhaps 2000 years, Koreans practiced, mainly during the New Year’s celebrations, a kind of stone fighting. The male youth of two villages...
View ArticleElodie Lecuppre-Desjardin (université Lille III)
Winter Festival in Flanders during the Little Ice Age: between playful spirit and political entertainment During the long and cold winter of 1434-1435, city-dwellers of Arras in the county of Artois...
View ArticleVanina Kopp (IHA)
Kings and Queens at stake. Conversational games between elite pastime and social competition Literary debates in vernacular language have been popular since the emergence of the troubadour lyric in the...
View ArticleCorinna Kirschstein (Universität Wien)
“What Pleasure May Thee Arise from It?” ‘Pig-beating’ as a Game Constituting Participation and Order in the Late Middle Ages Embedded in festivities and other social events, games and competitions...
View ArticleChristian Jaser (HU Berlin)
Ludic competition? Agonism of the Palio race in the Italian Renaissance Since the thirteenth century, nearly every town in Northern and Central Italy hosted annual horse races for the prize of a...
View ArticleUwe Israel (TU Dresden)
Endgame at the court of Burgundy. Olivier de la Marche on the Ludic elements in the Chevalier délibéré (1483) The allegoric poems of the courtier in service of Philip the Good, Charles the Bold and...
View ArticleJean-Dominique Delle Luche (université Paris I)
Standardisation of performances and competitions between organising cities: crossbow and long gun shooting in High Germany (1458-1478) Shooting contests – either with crossbows or with firearms – were...
View ArticlePierre Chaffard-Luçon (université Paris I)
Canonical prohibition of the Tournament Medieval canon law was highly concerned by violence and gives a perfect illustration of the famous adage “Ecclesia abhorret a sanguine”. The Peace and Truce of...
View ArticleConstanze Buyken (IFRA)
Aspects of gender in the rituals of exclusion, punishments and disciplinary measures in 15th century tournaments In the 15th century, tournaments were a crucial, almost omnipresent element of the...
View ArticleGuillaume Bureaux (université de Rouen)
Urban Issues of the Pas d’armes in the 15th and 16th centuries The city is not to be considered as a simple piece of the princely political ‘puzzle’, nor is it a contre-pouvoir ready to rise...
View ArticleAdrien Belgrano (EHESS)
Violence against dancers, violence among dancers: the social issues of dance at the beginning and the end of the 14th century A superficial reading of romance or clerical sources might give an...
View ArticlePierre-Henry Bas (université Paris III)
The playful conventions in fencing competitions at the end of the Middle Ages and early Modern Era The Germanic fight books (Fechtbücher) are medieval and Renaissance works about fencing, wrestling and...
View ArticleAnna Akasoy (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Playing with Birds of Prey at Medieval Muslim Courts The book of Adham and Ghitrif, one of the oldest preserved treatises on falconry in Arabic, begins with a chapter on ‘the first who played with...
View ArticleFrancesca Aceto (EHESS)
“Scientifici duelli”. Reflections on the relationship between game, science and competition during the era of the Great Italian Wars (XV-XVIth centuries) The role of military imagination in the history...
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