Appels à contribution

L’éloge (du latin eulogium— épitaphe laudative et du grec elegeion, distique élégiaque) se définit comme un discours (logos) épidictique né d’une vigoureuse admiration. L’éloge implique une instance énonciative, productrice d’un discours évaluatif saturé d’amplification et de valorisation. L’éloquence de l’acte célébratif, éminemment rhétorique, établit ainsi la singularisation et l’élévation d’un objet. Communément opposé au blâme (notamment dans le cadre de la rhétorique aristotélicienne), l’…

An interdisciplinary conference, University of PourtsmouthKeynote speaker: Professor Ann Hughes, Keele UniversityNumerous sixteenth and seventeenth-century treatises and conduct books promoted patriarchal ideals of female submissiveness and male domination. But in recent years, scholars have begun to question whether the stereotypical image of early modern women as ‘chaste, silent, and obedient’ before the unquestioned male authority figure ever quite tallied with actual experience, with men’s…

L’Association des Rencontres d’archéologie et d’histoire en Périgord consacrera son colloque annuel, qui se tiendra comme chaque année depuis plus d’un quart de siècle à Périgueux, au thème Mourir au château. Ce choix impose d’envisager une typologie des trépas liée au cadre châtelain, capable d’évoluer dans la longue durée. Le château peut être le lieu de décès « ordinaires » mais aussi de morts violentes, précipitées, imprévues, accidentelles ou préméditées, voire d’assassinats (1) . Afin de…

Margaret Beaufort Institute, University of Cambridge Réseau international “History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland” – #HWRBI2020The annual conference of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland addresses the broad theme of Women Religious and Life Stories. We welcome paper proposals and panel proposals that engage with any of the following, from a range of disciplines and in any period from medieval to modern:– Documenting and remembering the lives of women religious: rec…

“Female Economies”www.hsozkult.de/event/id/termine-41733 Contact: eva.brugger@uzh.chhttp://www.womenmoneymarkets.co.uk/ As in previous years, the conference will address women’s relationship to money and their participation in trade, banking, finance, forms of investment, speculation, gambling, consumerism, business and household management, wage labour, care work, charity and various other practices of exchange. The conference is interdisciplinary in nature, bridging literature, material cultu…

XVIth-XVIIth centuriesSpecial Issue of CRMH(Cahiers des Recherches Médiévales et Humanistes) Much study has been devoted to the special relation between women and religious faith, be it in the private domain or within the family. This special issue explores little or insufficiently known early modern women and the writings in which they testified to the exceptionality of their vocation. This portrait gallery aims to show not only the important place that various forms of piety occupied in the l…