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From vegetables to the Hortus Conclusus. The medieval garden in all its forms.

Du potager à l’Hortus Conclusus. Le jardin médiéval dans tous ses états.

Vom Gemüsegarten zum Hortus Conclusus. Die volle Blüte des mittelalterlichen Gartens.

Dall’orto all’Hortus Conclusus. Il giardino medievale in tutte le sue forme.

Jeunes Chercheur·euses médiévistes (JCM) Research Seminar 2025

Journées d'études des Jeunes Chercheur·euses médiévistes (JCM) 2025

Kolloquium den Jeunes Chercheur·euses médiévistes (JCM) 2025

Giornate di studio dai Jeunes Chercheur·euses médiévistes (JCM) 2025

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Published on Thursday, September 19, 2024

Abstract

From an interdisciplinary perspective, the seminar will be dedicated to the theme of the medieval garden. Whether they are for food or for leisure, courtly or philosophical, for love or for medicine, whether they are Hortus Conclusus or Deliciarum, medieval gardens are a world to be explored and cultivated in all their aspects.

Announcement

The traditional research seminar held by the Jeunes Chercheur·euses Médiévistes (JCM) are going to take place this year on the 13th and 14h of March 2025 at the University of Fribourg.

Argument

The garden is defined above all as a delimited space of domesticated nature for the subsistence and pleasure of the people who use it. From private gardens - for food or leisure, such as orchards, courtil and maix - to monastic gardens - Hortus Major and Hortus Minor - and large-scale farms - hort, huertas, vegas - gardens were an integral part of the medieval community, as they were essential for food and health. From then on, understanding the uses of medieval gardens became a major issue (Coulet 1976): what crops are grown and what facilities they require (Bouby 2000 and Ruas 1990)? What place gardens occupy in the human habitat and what economic value are placed on them?

From the Franconian word gard, enclosed place, the medieval garden is built to be closed, protected from the outside world. It is a sanctuary of harmony and civilization, triumphant over wild nature. It is the refuge that allows the secret confession of love as illustrated in courtly texts, delights and relaxation (Coulet 1989), and the awakening of the senses (Floire and Blancheflor). It is also the place of beginnings, where the reverdie initiates the novels (Vigneron 2002) and launches the adventurers on the roads (Gottfried von Strassburg). It is also the place where the allegorical story is played out (Roman de la Rose, Le Songe du Verger). How can we make the link between these fictional representations and the social practices they problematise? What activities are carried out there, what symbolism is attached to it and what implications does it have for everyday life?

The garden is also the garden of Eden, of Creation, and ultimately of Paradise: the garden from which man was driven and to which he is destined (Gesbert 2003). A place of promise and salvation, the earthly garden is always the image of the original garden created and willed by God, in all its purity and virginity (McAvoy 2021), as evidenced by the many representations of the Virgin Mary in a garden. It is therefore hardly surprising to see the proliferation of metaphorical gardens such as Herrad von Landsberg's Hortus Deliciarum, the sum of knowledge and art, as well as gardens of knowledge (Vincent de Beauvais, Bartholomew the Englishman), but also gardens of health (Hildegard von Bingen, Albert the Great), gardens of pleasure (Piero de' Crescenzi) as well as anthologies, bouquets of texts (Le Jardin de plaisance et fleur de rhétorique, La Fleur des histoires).

Submission guidelines

For this event, the JCM invite you to explore one or more aspects of medieval gardens and to compare your research with that of others, from an interdisciplinary perspective. Presentations will last around twenty minutes, with a particular focus on linguistic inclusivity. You will be asked to provide a bilingual PowerPoint presentation (language of presentation + another language from among French, German, Italian and English).

We invite all young medieval researchers to send us their proposal for a contribution, of one page, together with practical information (title of last degree obtained, institution to which they belong, field of research), in Word format, to the following address: jcm.unifr@gmail.com

by 15th November 2024.

Organization committee

Marine Pitteloud, Doctorante FNS, UNIFR ; Ludovica Quartiroli, Assistante doctorante, UNIFR ; Bastien Racca, Doctorant FNS, UNIFR ; Clarisse Reynard, Assistante doctorante, UNIGE ; Hippolyte Souvay, Assistant doctorant, UNIFR.

Scientific committee

Michele Bacci, Professeur, UNIFR;Prunelle Deleville, Maître-Assistante, UNIGE;Chloé Gumy, Assistante doctorante, UNIL ;Sandy Maillard, Assistante doctorante, UNINE ;Ludovica Quartiroli, Assistante doctorante, UNIFR ; Quentin Savary, Assistant doctorant, UNIGE.

Selected bibliography

  • ARROUYE, Jean & al., Vergers et jardins dans l’univers médiéval, Aix-en-Provence : Presses Universitaires de Provence, 1990.
  • CARAFFI, Patrizia & PIRILLO, Paolo, Prati, verzieri e pomieri. Il giardino medievale: cultura, ideali, società, Firenze : EDIFIR-Edizioni, 2017.
  • CARDINI, Franco & MIGLIO, Massimo, Nostalgia del paradiso. Il giardino medievale, Roma : Laterza, 2015.
  • COULET, Noël, « Pour une histoire du jardin, Vergers et potagers à Aix-en-Provence : 1350-1450 », Le Moyen âge (1967/2), p. 239-270.
  • GESBERT, Élise, « Les jardins au Moyen Âge : du XIe au début du XIVe siècle », Cahiers de civilisation médiévale 184 (2003), p. 381-408.
  • GIRAULT, Pierre-Gilles (dir.), Jardins du Moyen Âge, Paris : Le Léopard d’Or, 1995.
  • GÜNTHER, Franz (éd.), Geschichte des deutschen Gartenbaues, Stuttgart : Eugen Ulmer (Deutsche Agrargeschichte 6), 1984.
  • HIGOUNET, Charles (éd.), Jardins et vergers en Europe occidentale (VIIIe-XVIIIe siècles), Toulouse : Presses universitaires du Midi, 1989.
  • HUCHARD, Viviane & BOURGAIN, Pascale, Le jardin médiéval : un musée imaginaire. Cluny, des textes et des images, un pari, Paris : PUF, 2002.
  • LESLIE, Michael (éd.), A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Ages, Londres : Bloomsbury, 2013.
  • MCAVOY, Liz Herbert, The enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary, Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2021.
  • PERNOUD, Régine & HERSCHER, Georges, Jardins de Monastères, Paris : Actes Sud, 1996.
  • QUELLIER, Florent, Histoire du jardin potager, Malakoff : Armand Colin, 2023 [2012].
  • RUAS, Marie-Pierre, « Les plantes exploitées en France au Moyen Age d’après les semences archéologiques », in Marie-Pierre Ruas & al., Plantes et cultures nouvelles, Toulouse : Presses universitaires du Midi, 1990, p. 9-35.
  • VIGNERON, Fleur, Les saisons dans la poésie française des XIVe et XVe siècles, Paris : H. Champion, 2002.
  • VIGNERON, Fleur, « Le jardin ‘médiéval’ du Musée National du Moyen Age à Paris », in Elodie Burle-Errecade & Valérie Naudet (éd.), Fantasmagories du Moyen Age. Entre médiéval et moyenâgeux, Aix-en-Provence : Publications de l’Université de Provence, 2010, p. 219-227.
  • ZADORA-RIO, Élisabeth, « Pour une archéologie des jardins médiévaux », Monuments Historiques 143 (1986), p. 4-7.

Places

  • Université de Fribourg - Avenue de l'Europe 20
    Fribourg, Switzerland (1700)

Event attendance modalities

Hybrid event (on site and online)


Date(s)

  • Friday, November 15, 2024

Keywords

  • moyen âge, jardin, verger, potager, cultures

Contact(s)

  • Comité des JCM 2025
    courriel : jcm [dot] unifr [at] gmail [dot] com

Information source

  • Bastien Racca
    courriel : bastien [dot] racca [at] unifr [dot] ch

License

CC0-1.0 This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.

To cite this announcement

« From vegetables to the Hortus Conclusus. The medieval garden in all its forms. », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Thursday, September 19, 2024, https://doi.org/10.58079/12bkh

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