We are extremely pleased to announce the International Conference Programme of the Research Project COMMEMORtis - What survives after death? Parish Communities and Death Commemoration Strategies in the Medieval City, which will take place in Coimbra, at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, July 10th-12th.
We would like to invite the entire academic community (professors, students, researchers) and general public to join us during this scientific meeting. The entrance will be free, and certificates can be provided upon request.
July 10th 2023
Monday
09h30 OPENING
Session 1 – The Experience of Death in Monastic Environments
10h00-10h20
«Os obituários crúzios medievais como fonte da história urbana paroquial»
debate
10h30-10h50
«Rites and attitudes towards death in an urban religious community in the 12th century: The Monastery of Santa Cruz of Coimbra»
debate
11h00-11h20
«A morte e a memória no Mosteiro de Lorvão»
debate
11h30-12h00 Pause
12h00-12h30
« Commémorer chez les moniales : les nécrologes obituaires des monastères Saint-Laurent d’Avignon et Saint-Césaire d’Arles »
debate
Session 2 – Topographies of Death in European Medieval Cities
15h00-15h30
«A crise dos vivos: uma crise na comemoração dos mortos? A propósito do “Livro das Capelas” da catedral de Coimbra (século XIV)»
debate
15h45-16h05
«Ars moriendi. Reimagining the liturgical setting of the medieval church of S. Tiago of Coimbra»
debate
16h15-16h35
«Le livre des sépultures de la collégiale Saint-Paul de Lyon: topographie et sociologie»
debate
16h45-17h05
«A new model of reunion to God after death? Female saints of the Holy Kinship in funerary foundations in Late Medieval France»
debate
July 11th 2023
Tuesday
Session 3 – Endowments and Acts of Solidarity for the Salvation of Souls
09h30-10h00
«Commemorating London’s Dead in the Fifteenth Century: Marking All Souls’ Day in the St Paul’s Charnel House»
debate
10h15-10h35
«Shortcuts to Heaven: Strategies to Shorten the Stay in purgatory... And Save Money in the Process»
debate
10h45-11h05
«Beyond the Grave: The Social Identity of Donors from Life to the Hereafter in 13th and 14th-Century Douai»
debate
11h15-11h45 Pause
11h45-12h15
«Testamentos aristocráticos y redes parroquiales en Pamplona (s. XIV-XV)»
debate
Session 4 – The Salvation of the Souls of Those Who Pray
15h00-15h30
« Les paroissiens de Saint-Pierre du Queyroix de Limoges et la communauté des prêtres : des liens jusque dans la mort aux XIVe et XVe siècles »
debate
15h45-16h05
«O Aquém e o Além no testamento do bispo de Coimbra D. Egas Fafes de Lanhoso»
debate
16h15-16h35
«Commemorating the dead in the cathedral of Coimbra (12th-15th centuries)»
debate
16h45-17h05
«Sacerdos (…) memoriam sui faciet. Clergyman as a Subject and Object of Death Commemoration in late Medieval Prussian Towns»
debate
July 12th 2023
Wednesday
Session 5 – Historical Sources for the Study of Death and the Future of the Research project COMMEMORtis
09h30-10h00
«"e hirão sobre a sua campa que tem huum tal signal". O Obituário da Sé do Porto (Século XV) - Preservar a memória e salvar as almas»
debate
10h15-10h35
« Faire paroisse dans les sources funéraires provençales »
debate
10h45-11h05
«Death and memory. Obituaries and brief historiography in medieval Portuguese
manuscripts»
debate
11h15-11h30 Pause
11h30-12h00
«The Exploratory Project COMMEMORtis: an Assessment and Challenges for the Future»
12h00-13h00
«Extended Debate: SWOT Evaluation of the Work Accomplished and Perspectives for Future Work»