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Programme

The workshops will take place entirely online, in the form of webinars, using the Zoom platform. To request access credentials to the initiative, please contact makingofeurope@gmail.com

The workshops

1st workshop’s programme

DAY 1 – 22 September 2021, 2.30pm-6.30pm (continental time)  

 

2.30-3pm  

Barbara Bombi, Introduction and project presentation  

3-4pm:Governmental techniques and diplomacy.

David D’Avray, “Comparative governmental technique and shared legal culture in Late Middle Ages”  

Jochen Johrendt - Respondent and QA session 

4-5pm: Scholarly debates on Medieval diplomacy

Barbara Bombi, “Scholarly debate on Medieval diplomacy”  

Isabella Lazzarini and Sebastian Sobecki - respondents and QA session   

 

5-6pm: Diplomacy and the management of political affairs 1 (12th-13th c., England and beyond): 

Caterina Cappuccio, “The diplomacy of the apostolic see: the papal chapel (1198-1241)” 

Thomas William Smith, English diplomacy centred on benefices in the thirteenth century” 

Frédérique Lachaud – respondent and QA session 

Break-out rooms (15 min)  

 

DAY 2 – 23 September 2021, 3pm-6.30pm (continental time) 

  

3-4pm: Diplomacy and the management of political affairs 2

Patrick Zutshi, “Anglo-papal relations in the Avignon period” 

Kirsi Salonen, “SCISMA: careers, offices, networks and practices of the Roman curia in the Schism” 

Remy Ambuhl, respondent and QA session 

 

4-5pm: Diplomacy and the management of political affairs 3 (14th-15th c.) 

Jessika Nowak, “Keep it secret! Dos and don’ts for Milanese envoys in the 15th century”

Fabrice Delivré, respondent and QA session 

 5-6pm: Diplomacy and the management of political affairs 4 (East)

Georg Strack, What offered the popes to save the Christians in the East? Papal crusadingdiplomacy in late medieval Europa (ca. 1250-1450)” 

Irene Bueno, “The papacy and the Armenians in the Avignon period: challenges of a multifaceted diplomacy”

Iben Fonnesberg Schmidt, respondent and QA session 

Break-out rooms (15 min) 

2nd workshop’s programme

 

DAY 1 – 12 January 2022, 10.00-13.30 (Continental Time)

 

Barbara Bombi, Welcome and Introduction

 

10-11am: Kathleen B. Neal, Political communication in the thirteenth century (30 min.) – David D’Avray respondent / chair of QA session

 

11-12pm: Barbara Bombi, The Language in Late Medieval Diplomacy (30 min.) – Stéphane Pequignot respondent / chair of QA session

 

12-13pm: Round table, Diplomatic records 1 (10 min. presentations)

Iberian Peninsula (Maria Joao Branco and Herminia Vasconcelos Vilar, Stéphane Pequignot); Italy (Patrizia Sardina, Isabella Lazzarini) – Jochen Johrendt, moderator

 

DAY 2, 13 January 2022 10.00-13.30 (Continental Time)

 

10.00-11.00: Anne Curry, Diplomacy and its records: French, Gascon and Norman Rolls (30 min.) – Frédérique Lachaud, respondent / chair of QA session

 

11.00-12.00pm: Paul Dryburgh and Sean Cunningham, TNA and its diplomatic records (30 min.) – Rémy Ambuhl, respondent / chair of QA session

 

12.00-13.30

Round table, Diplomatic records 2 (10 min. presentations):

Vatican Archive (Patrick Zutshi, Jadranka Neralic)

French Archives (Frédérique Lachaud, Christine Barralis, Fabrice Delivré) – Melanie Brunner, moderator

3rd workshop’s programme

 

DAY 1 – 27 April 2022, 9.30-13.00 (CEST)

 

9.30-10.30 am: Round table, Ceremonies and cultural diplomacy, roundtable. Frédérique LachaudGeorg Strack, – Melanie Brunner chair

 

10.40-11.40 pm: Treaty making and the law. Anne Curry on the treaty of Troyes – Sean Cunningham, respondent

 

11.45-13.00 pm: Round table, Arbitration and treaties in Late Medieval Europe. Maria Joao Branco, Irene Bueno – David D’Avray, chair

 

DAY 2, 28 April 2022 9.30 – 13.00 (Continental Time)

 

9.30-10.30: Diplomatic legations. Maria Pia Alberzoni, Jochen Johrendt – Barbara Bombi, respondent

 

10.40-11.40pm: Writing arbitrations and treaties. Jenny Benham – Rémy Ambuhl, respondent

 

12.00-13.00pm: Where do we go next? Collaboration and funded project