Autumn School in Medieval Languages and Culture 2021: Scales of Knowledge - From Cosmos to Book
- For whom
- Students , Employees
- When
- 18-10-2021 09:00 to 22-10-2021 18:00
- Where
- Ghent University Library
- Language
- English
- Organizer
- Martine De Reu
- Contact
- Martine.DeReu@ugent.be
- Website
- https://www.ugent.be/pirenne/en/autumnschool.htm/as2021/introduction
liber floridus, medieval encyclopedia, cosmology, cosmography, crusade, central middle ages
The move in Medieval Studies away from nationalising and Eurocentric paradigms toward the ‘Global Middle Ages’ raises pressing and fascinating intellectual questions about scales of knowledge. How do we negotiate these scales as we move between the micro and the macro? What spatial and temporal scales do we use to study the period defined for ‘Europe’ as ‘The Middle Ages’? These same questions of scale were also challenging a millennium ago, especially in the years around 1100, in the wake of the 1st Crusade, which transformed Latin Europe’s relationship with the Afro-Eurasian space.