Commission internationale de diplomatique

Publication: Testaments as Historical Documents

Just published: Claes Gejrot, Kurt Villads Jensen, Kirsi Salonen & Benoît-Michel Tock (eds.), Testaments as Historical Documents, Stockholm, 2025. The book can be ordered, read online or downloaded on the publisher’s homepage.

XVIIIth Congress of the CID: Diplomatics and Navigation, 13th-18th Centuries, Barcelona, 4-6 November 2025

The XVIIIth Congress of the Commission internationale de diplomatique will take place in Barcelona, at the Faculty of Geography and History of the University of Barcelona. The topic of this year’s Congress is “Diplomatics and Navigation, 13th-18th Centuries”. Its programme, as well as all necessary details, can be found here.

Colloquium: Innover pour gouverner? L’innovation diplomatique dans les chartes impériales, royales et princières du Moyen Âge (Lyon, France, 25-26 September 2025)

Diplo 21 – Network of Emerging Diplomatists will hold its second colloquium at the University Jean-Moulin Lyon 3 on the 25th and 26th of September, 2025. Its topic will be “Innover pour gouverner? L’innovation diplomatique dans les chartes impériales, royales et princières du Moyen Âge”, and it will take place at the Amphitéâtre Huvelin of the Palais de l’Université, 15 quai Claude Bernard in Lyon (7th arrondissement). It will also be possible to follow the colloquium via video conference (registration before September 23th). All necessary details can be found in the enclosed programme or on the homepage of Diplo 21 (see also the colloquium’s poster).

Programme:

25 septembre 2025

13h Accueil

Mot d’accueil du CIHAM, par Guido Castelnuovo (Avignon Université)

Présentation de Diplo 21, par Robin Moens (KU Leuven)

The Commission Internationale de Diplomatique helps young researchers in diplomatics to attend the IMC

As in 2024, the CID decided this to give two grants of 500 euros each, to help young diplomatists to go to the IMC Leeds in next July.

The two diplomatists whose travel will be funded are:

Jon Dell Isola (Catholic University of America), Creating a Vision of the Past in Carolingian Charters

Matthias Rozein (Université de Liège), A Forger’s Knowledge of the Original: Forging a Papal Privilege in St Gall at the Beginning of the 10th Century

CfP: Diplomata Municipalia, Brno, 6-7 November 2025 (deadline: 31 May 2025)

The VI. “Brünner Workshop zu diplomatischen Studien” will take place at the Masaryk University in Brno, under the title Diplomata municipalia. Spätmittelalterliche Privilegien in der politischen Kommunikation zwischen König und Stadt. Conference languages are German and English, and proposals for 20-minute papers are to be sent in by May 31^st, 2025.

The workshop is part of a three-year project named “The Emperor‘s City between diplomacy and war. The communication of Sigismund of Luxembourg with the imperial city of Nuremberg”. It aims at studying the privileges granted to late-medieval cities as instruments and products of political communication between sovereigns and cities. Following topics are suggested:

Support for ECRs at the IMC Leeds

The Commission Internationale de Diplomatique supports young scholars (before the PhD, or two years after their dissertation), giving a paper on diplomatics at the 2025 International Medieval Congress at Leeds.
The CID will finance two young scholars, giving 500€ to each.
Applications must be sent to the president of the CID, Benoît-Michel Tock (btock@unistra.fr) and to the general secretary, Andrea Stieldorf (andrea.stieldorf@uni-bonn.de) before March 31^st.

La Commission Internationale de Diplomatique soutient les jeunes chercheurs (encore en doctorat, ou ayant soutenu leur thèse depuis moins de deux ans), qui présentent à l’International Medieval Congress 2025 de Leeds une communication centrée sur la diplomatique.
La Commission financera deux jeunes chercheurs allouant à chacun d’eux la somme de 500€.
Les candidatures doivent être adressées, avant le 31 mars, au président de la CID,Benoît-Michel Tock (btock@unistra.fr) et à la secrétaire générale, Andrea Stieldorf (andrea.stieldorf@uni-bonn.de ).

Call for applications: Summer School “Integrating Traditional and Digital Approaches in Manuscript Studies”, 9th-20th June 2025 (Deadline: 27th February)

From the organizers: The Department of Historical Studies “Federico Chabod”, University of Milan, and the Department of History and Cultures, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, with the collaboration of the University of Rochester (N.Y.), the Biblioteca Trivulziana e Archivio Storico Civico of Milan, the Biblioteca Ambrosiana and the Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare of Vercelli, the Biblioteca e Archivio del Capitolo Metropolitano of Milan, is holding a Summer School entitled Integrating Traditional and Digital Approaches in Manuscripts Studies (INTRADAMS)

CfP: Diplomatics and Navigation, 13th-18th Centuries, Barcelona, 4-6 November 2025

The XVIII^th Congress of the CID will take place in Barcelona, from November 4^th to November 6^th, 2025. Its topic will be Diplomatics and Navigation, 13^th-18^thCenturies, and it will aim at analysing navigation from the point of view of Diplomatics. Submissions for 20-minutes presentations are expected by December 20^th, 2024; comparative studies and analysis across various regions during the Middle Ages and the modern period are encouraged. Please find enclosed the call for papers in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish with a complete thematic overview and all contact details at the University of Barcelona.

CfC: Medieval Texts as Space of Cross-Cultural Exchange. Writing, Multilingualism and Mediators between East and West

Luisa Andriollo, Carlo Pernigotti and Maria Cristina Rossi (University of Pisa) invite scholars to submit abstracts of contributions for the upcoming book Medieval Texts as Space of Cross-Cultural Exchange. Writing, Multilingualism and Mediators between East and West. Possible topics would include :

Graphic and documentary models in the imperial chancelleries of East and West
Coexisting graphic and linguistic systems in literary or documentary texts
Multilingualism in texts and documents
Translations of texts across various literary genres
Key figures in cross-cultural exchange: ambassadors, interpreters, translators,
and scribes

and more generally the examination of texts as both literary and material products across their multiple dimensions (material, linguistic, symbolic)

Abstracts should be sent in by December 15, 2024, in English, Italian, French, or German, and have a length of 300-500. For more more details, contact etc., please refer to the enclosed, comprehensive call for contributions.

CfP: Late Medieval Cardinals Between Crises (Porto, 29-30 May 2025)

The conference « Late Medieval Cardinals Between Crises, From the Western Schism to the Vth Lateran Council (1378-1517) » will take place at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto on the 29th and 30th of May, 2025, with funding from the Foundation for Science and Technology and the Transdisciplinary Research Center for Culture, Space, and Memory. The organizers (André Moutinho Rodrigues, Kirsi Salonen and Maria João Silva) welcome paper proposals on topics related to late medieval cardinals, to be submitted (in English) by November 1st, 2024. Please find enclosed the complete call for papers, with all relevant details.