Programme of ESSHC

Sixth European Social Science History Conference
22 - 25 March 2006

All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR

Programme

Menu

Wednesday 22 March

8:30

10:45

14:15

16:30

Thursday 23 March

8:30

10:45

14:15

16:30

Friday 24 March

8:30

10:45

14:15

16:30

Saturday 25 March

8:30

10:45

14:15

16:30

All days

Wednesday 22 March 10:45

T-2 - MID06: Medieval nobility: rulership, social practices and artistic patronage

Room T


	Network: Middle Ages	Chair: Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues

Maria Joao Branco Teresa of Portugal, Mathilda of Flanders: on the footsteps of a Countess of Flanders (12th –13th century
Tuula Hockman Northern Loyalty: Marriages of Scandinavian nobility in the Middle Ages
Delphine Jeannot The books of Agnes of Burgundy, duchess of Bourbon (about 1407-1476)

Wednesday 22 March 14:15

G-3 - MID07: Urban Elites and Aristocratic behaviour in the 15th and 16th centuries Spanish Kingdoms I: Status and Privilige

Room G


	Network: Middle Ages Organiser: María Asenjo	Chair: Tuula Hockman Discussant: Peter Stabel

María Asenjo Aristocratic ambitions in Oligarchic Urban Society: Social and political consequences in Fifteenth-Century Castilian Towns
Angel Galán Sanchez "Hidalgos moriscos": from Muslims merchants and fuqaha to Christian Nobles in the Kingdom of Granada
José Antonio Jara Fuente Performing Aristocratic Roles? The Building Process of Status and Privilege in Fifteenth-Century Castilian Towns
Eloísa Ramírez-Vaquero The elites of Pamplona at the end of the Middle Ages

Wednesday 22 March 16:30

K-4 - MID08: Urban elites and artistocratic behaviour in the 15th and 16th centuries Spanish Kingdoms II: Privilige Merchant elite and aristocratic manners

Room K


	Network: Middle Ages Organiser: María Asenjo	Chair: María Asenjo Discussant: Peter Stabel

David Igual Social advancement of merchant elite in the cities of Valence Kingdom
Damien Coulon Ruling Class and Trade at the Later Middle Ages
Yolanda Guerrero Navarrete “Gentlemen-Merchant” in the XVth century urban Castilian: forms of life and social aspirations.
Flocel Sabaté The treason of the medieval bourgeoisie: a mutation of values or a bibliographic myth?

Thursday 23 March 8:30

I-5 - MID02: Solving conflict in the Medieval city I

Room A-2


	Network: Middle Ages Organiser: Peter Stabel	Chair: Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues

Peter Stabel From Noble Vendetta to Commercial Arbitration. Mechanisms and Strategies of Solving Conflict in the Medieval City
Jan Dumolyn The language of negotiations between subjects and princes in late medieval Flanders
Frederik Buylaert Urban patriciate and social order in late medieval Ghent

Thursday 23 March 10:45

I-6 - MID03: Solving conflict in the Medieval City II

Room A-2


	Network: Middle Ages Organiser: Peter Stabel	Chair: Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues

Gabriella Erdélyi Violence and Justice in Late Medieval Society
Bart Lambert Conflict solving strategies in an international commercial metropolig (Bruges in the late medieval period)

Thursday 23 March 14:15

S-7 - MID01: Networking Medieval Friendship: methods, approaches, scope and perspective of an international and interdisciplinary research-project

Room S


	Network: Middle Ages Organiser: Walter Ysebaert	Chair: Walter Ysebaert

Julian Haseldine Friendship and networks in the Latin West
Margaret M. Mullett Friendship and networks in Byzantium.
Jon V. Sigurdsson Friendship and networks in medieval Scandinavia.

Saturday 25 March 8:30

Q-13 - MID04: Power and urban elites in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages

Room N1-O1


	Network: Middle Ages Organiser: Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues	Chair: Maria Joao Branco

Hermínia Vasconcelos Vilar, Hermenegildo Fernandes Knights and landlords: the practice of municipal power in the south of Portugal in the XIIIth Century
Joaquim Serra The Council Elite of Évora in the XV Century: political and economical power

Saturday 25 March 10:45

C-14 - MID05: The diversity of medieval queenship

Room C


	Network: Middle Ages Organiser: Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues	Chair: Maria Joao Branco

Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues The Theory and Practice of Medieval Queenship in Portugal
Vanda Lisa Lourenço The household of the Queen D. Beatriz of Portugal (1309-1359)
Maria Filomena Andrade Isabel de Aragão: an exemplary queen