Special strand 2025

During the IMMLleida, we want to emphasise a specific objective: Collective identities and group solidarities in the late Middle Ages.

In Middle Ages, humans were never alone. Men and women in the Middle Ages only have meaning within a collectivity, as a form of group solidarity and collective identity, whether it is the senatorial bond, the village, the town, the nation... Over the last few years, historiography has deepened our knowledge of collective identities and group solidarity. It is a good time to review the current state of research in IMMLleida.

Invited speakers:

Tuesday 3^rd-June, 16:00h: Inaugural conference by Philippe Buc (Leiden University), Right of resistance in medieval exegesis and perhaps beyond.

Friday 6^th-June, 13:00h: Closing conference by Brian Catlos (University of Colorado), Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death: The Dynamics of Diversity in the Medieval Spains.

Tuesday 3^rd-June (time to be confirmed):

Lydwine Scordia (Université de Rouen), La communauté du royaume: le roi et les Français à la fin du XVe siècle. 

Léonard Dauphant (Université de Lorraine), La « langue de France », l'occitan et l'invention du peuple français (XIIIe-XVe siècles).

Wednesday 4^th-June (time to be confirmed):

Élodie Lecuppre-Desjardin (Université de Lille), Les solidarités de groupe à l'épreuve du bien commun dans les villes du Nord-Ouest de l'Europe à la fin du Moyen Âge.

Carles Rabassa (Universitat Jaume I), Elements de cohesió i acció col·lectiva en les comunitats polítiques del nord valencià (s. XIV-XV).

Luciano Gallinari (Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea), A long century of profound changes from one peninsula to another: the history and historiography of Sardinia from the end of the 13th century to the first half of the 15th.

Amedeo Feniello (Università degli Studi Dell'Aquila), Solidarietà familiari e controllo degli spazi urbani a Napoli nel XIV secolo.

Thursday 5th-June (time to be confirmed):

José Augusto de Sottomayor-Pizarro (Universidade do Porto), Los Livros de Linhagens medievales portugueses como voz del grupo aristocrático contra la afirmación del poder régio (siglos XIII-XIV).

Karen Stöber (Universitat de Lleida), Challenging identity. Religion meets politics at Strata Marcella Abbey.

Herminia Vilar (Universidade de Evora), Belonging, cohesion and identity of the clergy in Portugal at the end of the Middle Ages: remembrance and limits of testamentary discourse.

Martine Charageat (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), Solidaridad entre vivos y muertos: el destino de los enforcados en Teruel en 1422.

Friday 6th-June (time to be confirmed):

Miguel A. Motis (Universidad San Jorge), Las comunidades judías en Aragón: claves de identidad, cohesión y solidaridad de una minoría confesional (ss. XII-XV).

Claire Soussen (Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale), Les juifs à l’heure des troubles: expressions et limites des solidarités de groupe dans la Couronne d'Aragon à la fin du Moyen Âge.