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- The Wheel of Fortune (Roda da Fortuna) motif originated in Greco-Roman antiquity, probably from the blend of two goddesses: Fors and Fortuna. This combination gave rise to Fors (Fortuna), the goddess who represented fortuity, fate and luck. Christianized in the Middle Ages, the Wheel of Fortune stands for both the Wheel of Life and the Wheel of Chance. It symbolizes the continuous changes, both positive and negative, that the medieval man was subjected to. Having had the ISSN (2014-7430) registered at the Biblioteca de Catalunya (... moreThe Wheel of Fortune (Roda da Fortuna) motif originated in Greco-Roman antiquity, probably from the blend of two goddesses: Fors and Fortuna. This combination gave rise to Fors (Fortuna), the goddess who represented fortuity, fate and luck. Christianized in the Middle Ages, the Wheel of Fortune stands for both the Wheel of Life and the Wheel of Chance. It symbolizes the continuous changes, both positive and negative, that the medieval man was subjected to.
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Dossier - Church and Society in the Middle Ages Organizers: Bruno Gonçalves Alvaro (UFS) Leandro Duarte Rust (UnB) Historical syntheses have a intriguing importance. Something similar to an intellectual dilemma involves them. On the one... more
Dossier - Church and Society in the Middle Ages
Organizers:
Bruno Gonçalves Alvaro (UFS)
Leandro Duarte Rust (UnB)
Historical syntheses have a intriguing importance. Something similar to an intellectual dilemma involves them. On the one hand, they remain on the margins of the current model for specialized investigations, as if the effort for dominating evidence and records about the past required the triumph of compartmentalization over the idea of a historical totality. The option for a synthesis seems to be a row against the flow. At the very least, it seems to be paddling towards the margins of the sweeping river of academic credentials and trends, considering how common it is to see it as a publication that takes place at the edges of historiography, a borderline achievement, something typical of the historiographic borders: introductory works, school manuals, “scientific propagation” - according to an old stereotype. On the other hand, historical syntheses seem to capture and mobilize readers as it has not been for a long time. The recent success achieved by works like Sapiens: a brief history of Humankind, by Yuval Harari, and The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, by Peter Frankopan, two academic historians, seems to burst the floodgates created by the ideal of specialization, freeing the passage for the search for the totalization of history as a socially valued competence. Historical syntheses are a new old world to be explored.
We believe that the best way to face this dilemma (or deconstruct it) is to turn it into a collective challenge. As historical syntheses are presented as a current issue regarding historical writing - more than the identity of a certain author or that intellectual circle -, it is necessary to consider them through joint publications, whether in books or scientific journals. This is the initiative that moves this call for papers and reviews for a thematic dossier entitled "Church and Society in the Middle Ages". Nothing in this title is a naive conceptualization. “The Church” contains “churches”, since the discourses about institutional unity often distend the plurality of religious daily life, as demonstrated by authors like Cinzio Violante, John Howe, Steven Vanderputten. “Society” is an even more slippery concept, after all, when applied as a conventional reference, it may be nothing more than a sociological abstraction to hide contradictions, dynamics, ruptures, and the very concreteness of local reality, as revealed by Susan Reynolds, Chris Wickham, Francisco García Fitz and so many others. And what about "Middle Ages"? An expression that fixes the shape not of one, but of numerous choices about periodization, many of them protagonists of a competition so fierce for the idea of the past that the most extreme options often appear as the most attractive: both the 1,500-year-old “Long Middle Ages” and the “Middle Ages is a convention that never existed” count on a vast universe of supporters.
These risks, already stamped in the title of this proposal, are precisely the dilemmas that surround the elaboration of historical syntheses: the local versus the general, the dynamic versus the static, the plurality versus the uniqueness, the language versus the evidence. The formulation of this proposal is, therefore, an intentional provocation. An initiative to think systematically about the articulation of these notions. It is the explicit proposition of an invitation to answer this question: are these tensions, in fact, dilemmas? When we start thinking like this, with concepts as wide as "Church" and "Society", what "Middle Ages" is presented to readers and viewers? And above all: what is the scientific value of this approach? This is the heart of the proposal that we bring to the public as the organizers of this issue of the Roda Fortuna.
The deadlines for submitting papers, reviews, interviews, and translations are:
- Submission: until April 30, 2021
- Accept: June 2021
- Publication: July 2021
Proposals should be sent to: revistarodadafortuna@gmail.com
Organizers:
Bruno Gonçalves Alvaro (UFS)
Leandro Duarte Rust (UnB)
Historical syntheses have a intriguing importance. Something similar to an intellectual dilemma involves them. On the one hand, they remain on the margins of the current model for specialized investigations, as if the effort for dominating evidence and records about the past required the triumph of compartmentalization over the idea of a historical totality. The option for a synthesis seems to be a row against the flow. At the very least, it seems to be paddling towards the margins of the sweeping river of academic credentials and trends, considering how common it is to see it as a publication that takes place at the edges of historiography, a borderline achievement, something typical of the historiographic borders: introductory works, school manuals, “scientific propagation” - according to an old stereotype. On the other hand, historical syntheses seem to capture and mobilize readers as it has not been for a long time. The recent success achieved by works like Sapiens: a brief history of Humankind, by Yuval Harari, and The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, by Peter Frankopan, two academic historians, seems to burst the floodgates created by the ideal of specialization, freeing the passage for the search for the totalization of history as a socially valued competence. Historical syntheses are a new old world to be explored.
We believe that the best way to face this dilemma (or deconstruct it) is to turn it into a collective challenge. As historical syntheses are presented as a current issue regarding historical writing - more than the identity of a certain author or that intellectual circle -, it is necessary to consider them through joint publications, whether in books or scientific journals. This is the initiative that moves this call for papers and reviews for a thematic dossier entitled "Church and Society in the Middle Ages". Nothing in this title is a naive conceptualization. “The Church” contains “churches”, since the discourses about institutional unity often distend the plurality of religious daily life, as demonstrated by authors like Cinzio Violante, John Howe, Steven Vanderputten. “Society” is an even more slippery concept, after all, when applied as a conventional reference, it may be nothing more than a sociological abstraction to hide contradictions, dynamics, ruptures, and the very concreteness of local reality, as revealed by Susan Reynolds, Chris Wickham, Francisco García Fitz and so many others. And what about "Middle Ages"? An expression that fixes the shape not of one, but of numerous choices about periodization, many of them protagonists of a competition so fierce for the idea of the past that the most extreme options often appear as the most attractive: both the 1,500-year-old “Long Middle Ages” and the “Middle Ages is a convention that never existed” count on a vast universe of supporters.
These risks, already stamped in the title of this proposal, are precisely the dilemmas that surround the elaboration of historical syntheses: the local versus the general, the dynamic versus the static, the plurality versus the uniqueness, the language versus the evidence. The formulation of this proposal is, therefore, an intentional provocation. An initiative to think systematically about the articulation of these notions. It is the explicit proposition of an invitation to answer this question: are these tensions, in fact, dilemmas? When we start thinking like this, with concepts as wide as "Church" and "Society", what "Middle Ages" is presented to readers and viewers? And above all: what is the scientific value of this approach? This is the heart of the proposal that we bring to the public as the organizers of this issue of the Roda Fortuna.
The deadlines for submitting papers, reviews, interviews, and translations are:
- Submission: until April 30, 2021
- Accept: June 2021
- Publication: July 2021
Proposals should be sent to: revistarodadafortuna@gmail.com
