Round tables & seminars of the Nationwide Scientific Conference "Medieval & Early Modern Studies in Russia"

The organizer/s of the round table or seminar must have publications in peer-rewied journals or thematic collections on the declared topic.

In the application for a round table or seminar within the framework of the conference, please indicate in Russian or any of the main European languages: 
1) the topic of the round table/seminar and the approximate topic of a broader thematic block for it; 
2) full name and affiliation of the organizers; 
3) list of participants with sample topics; 
4) an abstract in any of the main European languages and, optionally, in Russian, each with up to 1000 characters with spaces.

E-mail address of the Organizing Committee: mediiaevi.iviran@gmail.com

Stylometry is one of the rapidly developing domains of digital  humanities. In particular, it is used to establish the authorship of  texts that other methods cannot unambiguously attribute. However,  applying stylometry to medieval texts still poses a significant  challenge: both because of the variations (orthographic mistakes and  more significant ones) that occurred with each copying of the text and  because of the influence that the researcher who digitizes the  manuscript has on the resulting text.
Participants of this  workshop will present several examples of digital stylometric techniques  to attribute both prose and rhymed medieval texts.

Russian medieval studies have a complex path: it emerged in the  days of Timofey Granovsky and the dispute between Westernernisers and  Slavophiles; by the beginning of the twentieth century, it had formed  into an independent field of knowledge with several outstanding  scientific schools and distinct research profiles. However, its further  development was not consistent: it was interrupted by significant social  and political cataclysms. As we stand on the threshold of another  watershed event, it seems necessary to reflect on Russian medieval  studies' path in the twentieth century and its further development.
Unlike  scholars of the Ancient and Modern Ages (and colleagues dealing with  the "long" Russian Middle Ages), Russian medievalists turn to the past  of their discipline mainly by studying individual figures (Fyodor  Uspensky, Aleksey Neusykhin, Boris Porshnev, Aron Gurevich, and many  others) or research concepts (feudalism,  ständische Monarchie, etc.).
Therefore,  the main task of this round table is to examine Russian medieval  studies as a whole. What intellectual and social foundations and ideas  determined and defined it? How have the fates of individual  intellectuals, grouped around journals or academic departments, and  entire generations been refracted under these conditions? What allows us  in 2022 to feel a commonality with twentieth-century medievalists, and  in what ways are we different (or do we want to be different) from them?  Finally, can we talk about Russian medieval studies, comparing its  intellectual path with that of English, German, French, or Italian, as  integral historiography, a particular intellectual space for forming  meanings?

The round table entitled “Representing the Past in Icelandic sagas” will be devoted to the discussion of topical issues arising from modern research on sagas. The meeting will be led by well-known Russian scholars in the field of Old Norse-Icelandic studies who will assess the new directions, mostly regarding the study of sources, in which international research on sagas moved at the turn of the century. The participants will discuss a number of questions concerning representations of the past of both Scandinavia and beyond, in various saga genres and Old Norse-Icelandic texts. The round-table presentations are based on detailed analyses of sources and take into account results of the latest historiographical studies. The speakers will discuss not only traditional, but also other ways of representing the past, including plot motifs and names. The discussion is aimed at developing new methods of research on sagas.

Participants:
Belyaev L.A., Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The study of the tombstones of Russia of the XII-XVII centuries over the last half century: results and objectives

Litvina A.F., Candidate of Philological Sciences, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Uspensky F.B., Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, V.V. Vinogradov Institute of the Russian Language, RANEPA STEPS
Name selection and commemorative practice in the XVI century.

Kuzmin A.V., Candidate of Historical Sciences, STEPS of the RANEPA
Features of fixing the ancestral memory of the Gediminovites according to the synodics of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery (using the example of RNB. F.351. No. 759/1016)

Avdeev A.G., Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Orthodox St. Tikhon Humanitarian University
Reconstruction of the genealogical tree of the Kashin Sikeotov nobles by "stone" and handwritten synodics

Sukina L.B., Doctor of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Training of Highly Qualified Personnel, A.K. Aylamazyan Institute of Software Systems of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Commemoration of two failed tsarinas in the synod of the Pereslavl Nikitsky Monastery of the late XVI - XVII century

Shokarev S.Yu., Candidate of Historical Sciences, STEPS of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Wives of Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich, their burial and commemoration

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Round table "Courts of rulers in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: trends and discussions of newest historiography" 
Organizer: Krylova Yulia Petrovna, Cand.Sc. (hist.), Senior Research Fellow at the IWH RAS
Participants: 
A.Yu. Seregina - Dr. of Sci. (History), Leading Researcher, Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The English Court of the Early Modern Times in the System of Social Communications (in Contemporary British Studies)

M.A. Boytsov - Dr. of Sci. (History), Professor, National Research Institute «Higher School of Economics»
(to be declared)

V.A. Vedyushkin - Cand. of Sci. (History), Senior Researcher, Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Court of the Spanish Habsburgs in Modern Historiography

A.L. Korzinin - Dr. of Sci. (History), Professor, St. Petersburg State University 
Sovereign court in Russia at the end of the 15th-17th centuries in Modern Russian and Foreign Historiography

Yu.P. Krylova – Cand. of Sci. (History), Senior Researcher, Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences 
The French Medieval Courts in the Latest Historiography of France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland

V.V. Shishkin - Dr. of Sci. (History), Senior Researcher, North-Western Institute of Management of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration 
French Court of the 16th Century: What Else Do We Not Know About It?

T.I. Zaitseva – Cand. of Sci. (History), Associate Professor, St. Petersburg State University of Economics
Research of Courts in the Latest Russian Medieval Studies

Round tables & seminars - 2022