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As part of the ANR SocioMA Project
Please note that presentations will be given in French and in English
The first study day of the ANR SocioMA project seeks to explore the foundations of categorical thought as applied to medieval society: what mechanisms or intellectual processes did social actors employ to define, delimit, and name social categories? Considering either the whole of Latin Christendom or a part of it, the contributions will examine the cultural structures and intellectual processes at work in categorical thinking through the following questions: what scholarly and/or practical taxonomies existed in Latin Europe? Who were the agents of these classifications, for what purpose did they produce them, and according to which specific criteria? What intellectual tools were used to produce these nomenclatures, and what vocabulary was employed to describe them? What influence did these nomenclatures exert on groups other than those that produced them, how did they contribute to a “social work of representation,” and how did they articulate a social imagination? What permeability existed between these categories, or, conversely, what conflicts arose between them?
Convened by:
Antoine Destemberg (MFO / CREHS – Université d’Artois)
Aude-Marie Certin (CRESAT – Université de Haute-Alsace)
Joël Chandelier (Université de Lausanne)
Arnaud Fossier (LIR3s – Université de Bourgogne)
Carole Mabboux (MéMo – Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis)
Sandrine Victor (Framespa – INU Champollion)
