Renaissance Craftsmen and Humanistic Scholars: European Circulation of Knowledge between Portugal and Germany
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Auditório
20 novembro até 21 novembro 2014
About this workshop
The International Workshop Renaissance Craftsmen and Humanistic Scholars: European Circulation of Knowledge between Portugal and Germany deals with the circulation of scientific and technological knowledge in the early modern period.
First relations between Germany and Portugal started already in the Middle Ages, but it was only during the time of the Portuguese discoveries when German trading houses established permanent factories in Lisbon in the end of the 15th Century. How was scientific and technical knowledge transferred in the Renaissance between craftsmen and humanistic scholars? To respond to this interesting question, 13 papers will be presented by international researchers on our multilingual workshop.
Organisation
- Thomas Horst (CIUHCT, Lisbon),
- Henrique Leitão (CIUHCT, Lisbon)
- Marília dos Santos Lopes (CECC, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon)
and the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal.
Scientific programme
Thursday, November 20
- 9:30. Opening Session
- Thomas HORST (CIUHCT, Lisbon), Introduction
- Bernardo HEROLD (Lisbon), Grußwort / Short welcome speech
- 10:30. Panel I — Historical relations (Chairman: Thomas HORST)
- Achim Thomas HACK (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena), Eine portugiesisch-österreichische Heirat in der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts und ihre kulturellen Folgen
- Jürgen POHLE (Centro de História d’Aquém e d’Além-Mar, Lisboa), Maximiliano I, os mercadores e humanistas de Nuremberga e a Expansão Portuguesa (em finais do século XV)
- Marília DOS SANTOS LOPES (CECC, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisboa), Importar saber: Portugal e a cultura científica na Alemanha dos séculos XV e XVI
- Torsten ARNOLD, (Lisbon), Hermann Kellenbenz and the German-Portuguese economic relationships during the 16th century
- 12:30. Discussion
- Lunch break
- 14:30. Panel II: Valentim Fernandes and the Germans Overseas (Chairman: Marília DOS SANTOS LOPES)
- Yvonne HENDRICH (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz), De insulis et peregrinatione lusitanorum – o papel de Valentim Fernandes como divulgador de informações entre Portugal e a Alta Alemanha
- Gregor M. METZIG (Universität Regensburg), Germans and Dutchmen at the S. Bartholomew Chapel in Portuguese-Kochi
- 15:30. Discussion
Friday, November 21
- 10:00. Panel III: Leonhard Thurneisser zum Thurn (1531-1596) and his relations to Portugal (Chairman: Jürgen POHLE)
- Gabriele KAISER (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz), Leonhard Thurneysser (1531-1596) und sein Nachlass in der Berliner Staatsbibliothek
- Thomas HORST (CIUHCT, Lisbon), A rediscovered Manuscript about Portuguese Plants and Animals – First results
- Yves SCHUMACHER (Zürich): Exkurs: Basel – Fluchtpunkt der Humanisten und Alchemisten
- 11:30. Discussion
- Lunch break
- 14:00. Panel IV: Relations in the History of Science (Chairman: Henrique LEITÃO)
- Annemarie JORDAN-GSCHWEND (Centro de História d’Aquém e d’Além-Mar, Lisboa and Switzerland), Shopping in the Renaissance – Merchants as Cultural Mediators in Spain, Portugal and their Overseas Empires
- Samuel GESSNER (CIUHCT, Lisbon), Lost between centuries: a celestial globe (1575) from Augsburg in Portuguese royal collections
- Sven DUPRÉ (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin and Freie Universität, Berlin), Technology, the Circulation of Knowledge and Collecting in Early Modern Antwerp: The German Connections of the Portuguese Merchant-Banker Emmanuel Ximenez
- Wolfgang KÖBERER (Frankfurt am Main and Academia de Marinha, Lisboa), "Das rechte Fundament der Seefahrt“: Deutsch-Portugiesische Beziehungen
- 16:00. Discussion and Final Ceremony