Interdisciplinary Workshop Convened by Katalin Szende and Balázs Nagy
Preliminary Programme

Venue: Central European University, Budapest, Nádor u. 9.
Monument Building, First floor, Gellner Room

Wednesday, 19 February

Arrival of participants, registration

19.00 Welcome drink
Venue: CEU Residence Centre, Budapest, Kerepesi út 87.

Thursday, 20 February

9.00 - 9.15 Opening of the workshop, greetings and introduction

9.15 - 10.15 Keynote lecture
Derek Keene (London). Zoning, Segregation and Desegregation in Medieval Towns

10.15 - 10.30 Coffee Break

Session 1: Transformations
Chair: Aziz Al-Azmeh

10.30 - 11.00. Marianne Sághy (Paris/Budapest). Pagans, Christians, Schismatics: Segregation and Assimilation in Fourth-century Rome
11.00 - 11.30. Cristian Gaspar (Bucharest). Between the City and the Desert: Defining a Proper Place for Monks in the Early Byzantine World
11.30 - 12.00 Juan Zozaya (Madrid). Different Ethnic Groups, Different Cultures, Different Religions: the Archaeological Information on al-Andalus from the Eighth to the Eleventh Centuries

12.00 - 13.30 Lunch Break

Session 2: Merchants and Labour
Chair: DeLloyd Guth

13.30 - 14.00 Ian Blanchard (Edinburgh). Foreign Merchants in Early Modern Towns and International Market Intelligence Systems
14.00 - 14.30 Stefan Stantchev (Sofia). Business and Limits of Tolerance in a Multiethnic Society: Caffa in the Late Middle Ages
14.30 - 15.00 Maria Pakucs (Bucharest/Budapest). "Greek" Merchants in the Saxon Towns of Transylvania in the Late Middle Ages

15.00 - 15.15 Coffee break

Chair: József Laszlovszky

15.15 - 15.45 Robert Braid (Paris). Labor Migration in Western Europe after the Black Death: Abandon or Integration?
15.45 - 16.15 Andrea Velich (Budapest). Immigrants in Early Tudor London

16.15 - 16.45 Coffee break

Session 3: Status and Definition of Groups I

16.45 - 17.15 Gerhard Jaritz (Krems/Budapest). The Visual Image of the Other in Medieval Urban Space: Patterns and Construction
17.15 - 17.45 Judit Majorossy (Budapest). Integration through Religion? Donations for the Hospitals of Medieval Bratislava

18.15 Dinner (optional)

Friday, 21 February

Session 4: Religious Groups
Chair: Gábor Klaniczay

9.00 - 9.30 Mónika Mezei (Budapest). Jews in Early Medieval Towns as Described by Gregory of Tours
9.30 - 10.00 Hanna Zaremska (Warsaw). A Jewish Conspiracy in Wroclaw in 1453
10.00 - 10.30 Emily R. Gottreich (Berkeley). On the Origins of the Walled Jewish Quarter of Marrakesh

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break

Session 5: Foreign Minorities I

11.00 - 11.30 Nada Zecevic (Belgrade/Budapest). Nobiles, cives et popolari: The Population of the Four Tocco Towns in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
11.30 - 12.00 István Petrovics (Szeged). Foreign Ethnic Groups in the Towns of Southern Hungary

12.00 - 13.00 Lunch break

13.00 - 13.30 Bus ride/walk to Buda Castle Hill
13.30 - 16.00 Buda: the Multi-ethnic Capital of Medieval Hungary
Guided tour by András Végh, archaeologist, Budapest Historical Museum (in case of very bad weather: Guided tour of the medieval exhibition of the Budapest Historical Museum)

16.00 - 16.30 Coffee

Session 6: Foreign Minorities II
Chair: Michael Richter
Venue: "Royal cellar" of the Budapest Historical Museum

16.30 - 17.00 Felicitas Schmieder (Frankfurt). Various Ethnic and Religious Groups in Medieval German Towns? Some Evidence and Reflections
17.00 - 17.30 Anti Selart (Tartu). Russians in Livonian Towns in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
17.30 - 18.00 Olha Kozubska (Lviv/Budapest). Living in a Multiethnic Community: Aspects of Urban Life in Late Medieval and Early Modern Lviv

18.00 - 20.00 Reception and Chamber Music Performance
Beethoven: String Quartet in F major (David String Quartet)
Venue: Gothic Hall, Royal Palace of Buda

Saturday, 22 February

Session 7: Status and Definition of Groups II
Chair: János M. Bak

9.00 - 9.30 DeLloyd Guth (Manitoba). Legal Pluralism and Social Control: Harwich's Court Leet in Late Medieval England
9.30 - 10.00 Michael Richter (Constance). The Colonial Towns of Wales in the Later Middle Ages
10.00 - 10.30 Edna Ruth Yahil (Paris) . Remembering Isabelle of Bavaria's Entry into Paris: The "Separate City (ville séparée)" of Saint Germain and its Guilds

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break

Session 8: Foreign Minorities III
Chair: Dick de Boer

11.00 - 11.30 Kazimir Popkonstantinov - Rossina Kostova (Veliko Turnovo). Foreigners and Minorities in Medieval Bulgarian Towns: Written and Archaeological Fragments
11.30 - 12.00 Boris Golec (Ljubljana). The Ethnic Structure of the Medieval Continental Towns of Today's Slovenia
12.00 - 12.30 Zdenka Janekovic-Römer (Zagreb). Diversified Differences: Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Medieval Dubrovnik

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch break

Session 9: Perceptions and Integration
Chair: Derek Keene

13.30 - 14.00 Balázs Nagy (Budapest). Hungarian Towns in the Accounts of Foreign Travellers
14.00 - 14.30 Dick de Boer (Groningen). The Duke of Egypt and the Easterlings: Assimilation or Segregation of Immigrants, Merchants, Vagabonds and Gypsies in medieval Dutch Towns, with Special Reference to Leiden
14.30 - 15.00 Katalin Szende (Budapest). Integration through Language: the Multilingual Character of Late Medieval Hungarian Towns

15.00 - 15.30 Coffee break

15.30 - 16.30 Summing up and closing debate, moderator: Peter Johanek (Münster)

19.00 Opera performance (optional) Mozart: Titus
Hungarian State Opera House

Sunday, 23 February

ca. 9.00 - 16.00 Excursion to Esztergom and Visegrád (optional)
Guide: József Laszlovszky

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Sponsors: Cultural Committee of the Budapest Town Council
Budapest Historical Museum

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