Commission internationale de diplomatique

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:

2021, September 10th: internal meeting (online)

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.

Documents and Chanceries between West and East

[This programme is also available as a PDF document]

Thursday 27 August

9.00-11.30

Olivier GUYOTJEANNIN, Opening of the Congress

Historical background and basic concepts / Historischer Hintergrund und Grundbegriffe

Thomas WÜNSCH, Von der „Ostmark” bis Sibirien. Länder und Staaten des östlichen Europa im Verbreitungsgebiet der mittelalterlichen Urkunde

Reinhard HÄRTEL, Urkundenlandschaften: Mittel und Ziel diplomatischer Forschung

Wolfgang HUSCHNER, Die Genese salischer und staufischer Diplome (11.-13. Jahrhundert): Aussteller- und Empfängeranteile

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Word version of the letter

Programme to follow soon!

Gent, 05/03/2020

Chères et chers collègues,

J’ai le plaisir de vous apprendre que les préparatifs pour notre XVI^e Congrès international de Diplomatique « The document and the chancery between West and East » sont en bonne voie. Continue reading →

[Prof. Giovanna Nicolaj has accepted to republish here the pages she wrote as an afterword to the last volume of the Chartae Latinae Antiquiores: Part CXVIII, Addenda II, Dietikon-Zürich 2019. Her text is also here as a PDF].

[Queste pagine sono già uscite come Postfazione nell’ultimo volume della serie: Part CXVIII, Addenda II, Dietikon-Zürich 2019].

Nell’ormai lontano 1954 usciva il I volume delle Chartae Latinae Antiquiores, la grande serie di documenti fondata e diretta da Albert Bruckner e Robert Marichal e dedicata alle chartae su papiro o pergamena, datate o databili entro l’VIII secolo (fino all’anno 800). Continue reading →

The Charles University and the Czech National Archives in Prag organize a conference for the 100-year jubilee of the National School of Archival studies. Proposals for papers in Czech, Slovak, Polish or German are welcome until April 20th, 2019, on the teachers, researchers, text editors and archivists who have contributed to the development of archival sciences, auxiliary sciences, text edition, history of administration… and of their teaching. See the enclosed call for papers (in German language) for more details and contact information.

The French Archives nationales and the Research group 7041 Archéologies et sciences de l’Antiquité will hold a colloquium in Paris on Tuesday, October 2nd, under the title Un théâtre du pouvoir à l’épreuve du temps : les actes originaux des rois mérovingiens (Paris, Archives nationales, Hötel de Soubise, 60 rue des Francs-Bourgeois, 75003 Paris).

Programme (can also be downloaded here)

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