Commission internationale de diplomatique

The CID will organize a meeting in Stockholm (20-22 September 2023 ) on “Testaments”. The call for papers (to be found here) will be running until 2022, May 15th

The next meeting of the CID (“Documents and Chanceries between West and East”), scheduled in Poznań, 25-27 August 2022, will be organized online. The programme will be available soon.

The publisher of the Chartae Latinae Antiquiores had build an online tool to search the material, based on a few criteria such as dates, scribes, writing material or repository. It went offline as the publishing house closed, but thanks to the intervention of Giovanna Nicolaj and Cristina Mantegna, to the support of Benoit-Michel Tock and to the technical expertise of Guillaume Porte, it is now hosted on the digital edition platform of the ARCHE research groupe at the University of Strasbourg: ChLA

From the website:

The Chartae Latinae Antiquiores started in 1954, intended to edit texts, pictures and comments of all Latin charters prior to 800, and later until 900. The 118 volumes are an outstanding collection of facsimiles of those documents, a major source for the history of the Early Middle Ages, and especially for the study of palaeography and diplomatics.

For helping researchers to browse inside the more than 100 volumes and ca. 5000 charters, an interface was built by Lukas Gamper. It allows the possibility to find and sort charters by issuer, recipient, date, preservation…

Despite the end of the “ChLA adventure”, this interface is now available here!

The conference “Documenti scartati, documenti reimpiegati. Forme, linguaggi e metodi per nuove prospettive di ricerca” will be held in Bologna and online, on December 2nd-3rd, 2021 – please find enclosed its programme with all necessary details.

On the 16th-17th of June 2022, a conference will be held in Orléans (France) with the title “À propos des actes d’évêques: nouvelles approches et nouveaux regards (Xe-XIIIe siècle)”, organized by Chantal Senséby and Grégory Combalbert. The deadline for paper proposals is the 15th of November 2021; all necessary details are given in the corresponding call for papers.

The Centro Interateneo Notariorum Itinera and the research projects LIMEN – Linguaggi della mediazione notarile (secc. XII-XV) – Seal of Excellence of the Extraordinary Call for Interdepartmental Projects of the State University of Milan 2020 organise the International Conference of Emerging Diplomatics Studies for young diplomatics scholars, in the firm belief that early-stage research projects working on medieval documentary resources can benefit from an international comparison of methods and results and, in the same time, they can also contribute in an essential way to our knowledge of the history of medieval documents.

In the following months and years, we plan:

2022, August: International Colloquium “Documents and Chanceries between East and West”, Poznań

2023: International Colloquium “The wills”, Stockholm

2024: Meeting: “Young diplomatists'”, Bonn

The XVIth International Colloquium of the C.I.D., about “Documents and Chanceries between West and East”, will be organized in August 2022, in Poznań if possible, online if it isn’t possible.

We learned with grief that Giles Constable passed on January 17 of 2021, 91 years old. After  teaching during three decades at the University of Harvard from 1958 on, he was awarded the prestigious chair of professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton in 1985. It is there that he organised, as a member of our Commission, a succesful colloquium on ‘La tradition des documents diplomatiques’ (published by A. J. Kosto – A. Winroth, Charters, Cartularies, and Archives: The Preservation and Transmission of Documents in the Medieval West, Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2002).  He was an influential explorer of the religious and cultural history of the twelth century, the 12th and 14th century crusading, the origins of monastic tithes, the Benedictine reform of the twelfth century, the history of Cluny. His kindness inspired many talented young scholars, and promoted their careers. In respect for his explicit wishes we have limited to this short, but sincere notice.

Walter Prevenier

Due to the current sanitary crisis, the CISH resolved to postpone its congress in Poznań, meaning that the CID colloquium, which was to be a part of this event, must follow suit. At the moment, congress and colloquium are scheduled to take place at the end of August 2021.