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Sam Turner, de l'Université de Newcastle, présentera sa communication "The seventh-century monasteries of Wearmouth-Jarrow and the bones of the Northumbrian landscape" le jeudi 11 février, de 17h à 19h. Maison de la Recherche, 28 rue Serpente, Paris 6e , salle D421.En raison des contrôles de sécurité, les personnes extérieures à Paris IV souhaitant assister à ce séminaire sont invitées à se munir d’une carte d’étudiant ou d’une carte professionnelle, ou encore d’une carte d’identité et de cette annonce imprimée.Discutante :Elisabeth Lorans de l'Université de ToursPodcast ci-dessous et sur le site de la SAS:http://podcast.ulcc.ac.uk/accounts/SAScasts/FrancoBritishHistory/FBH_11_02_16_Sam_Turner.mp3Most historical accounts of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria focus on religious conversion as a key driving force in 7th-century social change. As a counterpoint to this approach, I suggest that the examination of certain ‘technologies’ can help explain more specifically what changed, why it changed and how change was effected. I will examine these themes with reference to the famous monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow, where I have undertaken new research in collaboration with a team of colleagues.In this talk I will focus specifically on technologies witnessed at Wearmouth and Jarrow and through other Northumbrian sources, such as the parcelling of land and the use of writing, building in stone, the use of relics and sainthood, and changing locations and forms of burial. I will suggest that the coalescence of these technologies enabled the emergence of key concepts for later periods, such as possession, kingship, saintliness, and the enduring community of the dead. Such transformations were supported by changing perceptions of the material properties of objects, substance, places and persons.Un long résumé en anglais sera disponible sur place.