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[caption id="attachment_2123" align="alignleft" width="240"] Florence, Bargello palace. detail (photo: Matteo Ferrari)[/caption]The heraldic heritage of the Italian cities is still a monument to the ubiquity of heraldry in the Middle Ages. However, research into the heraldry of the Italian cities in particular, and in fact heraldry in the city in general, has remained relatively scarce. The conference 'Heraldry in the Medieval City: The Case of Italy in the European Context', which will take place 5-7 May 2015 in Rome, sets out to change this by bringing together heraldists, historians, art historians, historians of visual culture and urban history to propose new pespectives on heraldic signs in the city and open up new tracks for future research. (See the full call for papers for more information.)&#160;ProgrammeTuesday, 5 May14:00Arrival of participantsWelcome by Stéphane Gioanni (Ecole française de Rome)Introduction14:30-15:30Laurent Hablot (Rome/Poitiers)/Torsten Hiltmann (Münster): IntroductionChristoph Dartmann (Hamburg/Münster) : Heraldry as element of the visual culture of late medieval Italian cities. Some remarks on culture and society of the city-communes15:30-16:00Coffee breakHeraldry in the city16:00-17:00Andreas Rehberg (Rome) : Il comune di Roma e l'araldica – alcune riflessioni su un terreno poco studiatoMatteo Ferrari (Poitiers) : Héraldique et « mise en signes » de l’espace urbain dans le Poitou au Moyen-Âge17:00-17:30Coffee breakRome17:30-18:30Emiliano Bultrini (Rome) : Il potere e le sue simbologie: nobiltà, araldica e topografia a Roma tra XII e XIV secoloEdouard Bouyé (Dijon) : Pontifes et urbanistes. Le marquage héraldique des papes dans les villes de leurs États (XIII-XVIe siècles)DinnerWednesday, 6 MayPatricians and nobility9:00-10:00Luisa Gentile (Turin): L’héraldique dans les villes des LombardsMarc von der Höh (Bochum): Heraldry and the City – the case of Cologne (13th-15th century)10:00-10:30Coffee break10:30-11:30Jean-Christophe Blanchard (Nancy): Metz, ville impériale, ville armoriale. Le patriciat, metteur en signes du théâtre urbainPaul-François Broucke (Amiens): Décors héraldiques et architecture sacrée dans la cité. L'exemple du duché de Bretagne à la fin du Moyen Âge (XIVe – XVe siècles)11:30-12:00Coffee break12:00-13:00 Laura Cirri (Florence): Sacred space and family representation in Florence during the Trecento and the QuattrocentoKatja Putzer (Nuremberg): Heraldry in Nuremberg’s Sacred Spaces13:00-14:30LunchHeraldic representation of the city itself14:30-15:30Marta Santos (Coimbra): Heraldry in Portuguese Medieval Towns. A unique context?Vittoria Camelliti (Udine): L’araldica nelle immagini di città tra Medioevo e Rinascimento15:30-16:00Coffee break16:00-17:00 Tania Lévy (Brest): Les lys et le lion. Les armoiries dans la ville de Lyon autour de 1500Laurent Héry (Brest): Armoiries et communication héraldique lors des entrées d’Anne de Foix dans les cités de Vénétie (1502)17:00-17:30Coffee break17:30-18:00Emmanuel de Boos (AIH) : Deux documents armoriés d'origine municipale : Le Biccerne de Sienne et les Annales de ToulouseDinnerThursday, 7 MayCase studies9:00-10:00 Marco Bogade (Potsdam): Coats of arms within the Representative Iconographic Programmes of Charles IV, Holy Roman EmperorElena Paulino Montero (Florence/Madrid)/Alicia Inés Montero Málaga (Madrid): Afficher un pouvoir négocié. L’héraldique nobiliaire dans une cité du domaine royal – le cas des Velasco à Burgos au milieu du XVe siècle10:00-10:30Coffee break10:30-11:30Luigi Tufano (Turin): I segni della fidelitas del nobile. Scudo regio e committenza nobiliare tra devozione e propaganda – Il caso dei Carafa nella Napoli del QuattrocentoPhilippa Woodcock (Warwick): Heraldry and Regime Change. The Trivulzio Chapel at San Nazaro, Milan, 1499-152211:30-12:00Coffee breakConclusion12:00-13:00Conclusion in form of a round table discussion, with Michel Pastoureau (Paris), Alessandro Savorelli (Pisa)EndVenue: École française de Rome - Piazza Navona, 62 - I-00186 RomaAbstracts of the individual papers will successively be published on Heraldica Nova.The workshop is sponsored by the Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale (CESM), University of Poitiers; Research Project 'The Performance of Coats of Arms' (VolkswagenFoundation), University of Münster; International Research Universities Network (IRUN); Ecole française de Rome; German Historical Institute Rome (DHI); Académie de France à Rome