Games – power – politics: Communal feasts and games in the Marca Trevigiana Civic elements are interwoven throughout the feasts and games contained in the thirteenth century Marca Trevigiana. These festivities were acts of self-expression and glorification, of consolidation and stabilisation of a se...

Christian Jaser (HU Berlin)

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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 precious piece of cloth called bravium or palio. On the basis of an unparalleled dense documentation, pal...

Uwe Israel (TU Dresden)

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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 Mary of Burgundy show strong (auto)-biographical traits. They recount the adventures of their author a...

Constanze Buyken (IFRA)

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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 festive culture in European civilisations and, thus, an essential locus of sociability. They translated...

Adrien Belgrano (EHESS)

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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 impression that dance is mainly an activity of pure leisure. Whereas a deeper investigation enlightens us t...

Corinna Kirschstein (Universität Wien)

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“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 formed a vital part of social life in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era. They produced an a...

Anna Akasoy (Graduate Center, CUNY)

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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 birds of prey’. The anonymous author of Umayyad times offers a compilation of anecdotes about Persian,...

Francesca Aceto (EHESS)

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“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 of Western thought has been an essential question, making it a focus of recent research. The case...

Ismérie Triquet (université Rennes II)

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The Metaphor of Chess in the Chronicles of Normandy in the 15th Century Throughout its development and rewritings, the rich Norman historiography has constructed the history of the Duchy of Normandy’s reigning figures. The history of the Dukes of Normandy is sometimes genuine; romanticised at other...

Jean-Dominique Delle Luche (université Paris I)

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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 the main sportive and festive events in the urban culture of the Holy Roman Empire during the 15th...

Laurent Quisefit (EHESS)

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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 assembled on each side of a stream and began to hurl stones at the opposing ‘team’. In such a compe...

Pierre Chaffard-Luçon (université Paris I)

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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 God represented the most significant contribution on this subject — the Church wished to dampen chiv...

Pierre-Henry Bas (université Paris III)

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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 jousting. It is a technical literature, specialized, a Fachliteratur, exposing the theoretical way...

Elodie Lecuppre-Desjardin (université Lille III)

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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 decided to build groups of snowmen all over the city. The different themes chosen by the citizens exp...

Vanina Kopp (IHA)

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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 eleventh century. So-called Demandes d'amours or Jeux-dits, spoken or sung dialogues on the subjec...

Dmitriy Weber (St. Petersburg State University)

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Game and Adventus. Lords and estates in early modern Livonia In this paper, the term “city” is understood as a space of communication in the context of a case study of the situation in Livonia in the 1530s, as depicted by the "Chronica of the Province of Lyfflandt" by Balthasar Russow. As an example...

Guillaume Bureaux (université de Rouen)

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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 systematically in the case of a disagreement with the ducal power. The city, as the seat of a particular powe...

Vollst. überarb., erw. und fairifizierte Neuauflage: Die Datenbank „Das Adressbuch der Deutschen in Paris von 1854“

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Mareike König (22 juin 2023)

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Vortrag von Mareike König und Alina Ostrowski am 22.6.2023, 17:45, im Kolloquium "Digital Humanities: Aktuelle Forschungsprojekte" an der Universität Köln (HS XVIII). Wie kann man alternde digitale Projekte vor dem Datenfriedhof bewahren und welche Schritte sind notwendig, um ihre Nutzungsszenarien...