Usury and Antisemitic Stereotypes. The Extortionist Jew in Reckoning Examples of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
2025-07-01 00:00 - 23:59 (Europe/Vienna) | Universität Innsbruck
Michaela Wiesinger
Tagung: Transfer of Ideas in European Intellectual History: From Medieval Manuscripts to Interactive Online Content
Conference at the University of Innsbruck, 30.06.-02.07.2025

International Medieval Congress (IMC) Leeds 2025 - Session I: No Pain, No Gain: What We Learn When We Study Mathematical Texts, I
2025-07-09 14:15 - 15:45 | University of Leeds, Woodhouse, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
Organiser: Michaela Wiesinger, Institute of German Philology, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
Moderator: Julia Bruch, Institute of History, University of Cologne
1237-a – Every Number Tells a Story: Narratological Structures and Storytelling in Late Medieval and Early Modern Reckoning Books
Franziska Putz, Institute of German Studies, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
1237-b – Picture This!: On the Interplay of Text and Image in Reckoning Books of the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
Michaela Wiesinger, Institute of German Philology, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
1237-c – ‘Put from you!’: Comparing Vernacular and Latin Idioms for Arithmetical Instructions from the Early to the Late Medieval Period
Bernhard Bauer, Department of Digital Humanities, University of Graz

International Medieval Congress (IMC) Leeds 2025 - Session II: No Pain, No Gain: What We Learn When We Study Mathematical Texts, II
2025-07-09 16:30 - 18:00 | University of Leeds, Woodhouse, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
Organiser: Michaela Wiesinger, Institute of German Philology, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
Moderator: Katrin Janz-Wenig, Referat Abendländische und außereuropäische Handschriften, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky

1337-a – Calculating Canons: The Mathematical Corpus in Klosterneuburg Abbey
Edith Kapeller, Klosterneuburg Abbey
1337 -b- When Numbers tell a story: Mathematical knowledge and its relevance in late medieval and early modern literature
Gregor Kodym, Institute of German Studies, University of Innsbruck
1337-c – Digitising Digits: Navigating the Challenges of Transcribing 15th- and 16th-Century German Arithmetic Texts with Transkribus
Norbert H. Orbán, Institute of German Studies, University of Innsbruck

Arithmetic Matters. Material Knowledge and the Tangibility of Mathematics in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
2025-09-26 12:30 - 13:00 | Institute of History, University of Graz, Universitätsstraße 15, Graz, 8010
Lecture by Michaela Wiesinger as part of the workshop “Objects Matter! Economy and material culture in the Middle Ages”, the 12th annual conference of the Research Group for Late Medieval Economic History of the University of Graz

Adding Tales to the Equation - Exploring the Narrative Potential of Late Medieval and Early Modern Reckoning Books
2025-10-01 11:30 - 12:00 | Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Gaußstraße 20, Wuppertal, Germany
Franziska Putz
8th conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN)

What to Say when Talking Trade. Language Books and their Relevance for Trade Contacts between Germany and Italy in the Fifteenth Century
2025-11-07 09:00 - 10:30 | Central European University Vienna, Quellengasse 51, 1100 Wien, Austria
Lecture by Michaela Wiesinger as part of the Workshop “Urban Commercial Spaces and their Languages”

Calculating for „Stubborn Hungarians” – The Hungarian Frisius and its Translation
2025-11-07 09:00 - 10:30 | Central European University Vienna, Quellengasse 51, 1100 Wien, Austria
Lecture by Norbert Orbán as part of the Workshop “Urban Commercial Spaces and their Languages”

Ausgerechnet - ausgezählt. Eine exemplarische Analyse zu einem Merkvers aus dem Algorismus Ratisbonensis
2025-11-20 00:00 - 2025-11-21 23:59 | Interdisciplinary Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Salzburg
Lecture by Franziska Putz as part of the “3. Nachwuchstagung Österreichische Mediävistik”

Kalkulieren und Erzählen. Merkantiles und mathematisches Wissen in der Erzählliteratur der Frühen Neuzeit
2025-11-20 00:00 - 2025-11-21 23:59 | University of Graz, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Germanistik
Poster presentation by Gregor Kodym as part of the workshop “Promovieren in der Germanistik”, University of Graz (ÖGG – Österreichische Gesellschaft für Germanistik)

Zahlreiche Erzählungen. Zur narratologischen Erschließung arithmetischer Texte deutscher Sprache
2025-11-27 00:00 - 2025-11-28 23:59 | Quartier 1114, Stift Klosterneuburg, Albrechtsbergergasse 1, Klosterneuburg, 3400, Austria
Das ERC-Projekt ARITHMETIC widmet sich den frühesten handschriftlich überlieferten arithmetischen Texten in deutscher Sprache. Ziel des Projekts ist es, diese Texte für die Forschung über eine digitale Edition zu erschließen und die Rechenbücher unter anderem in Hinblick auf ihre narratologische Relevanz zu untersuchen.
In unserem Workshop “Zahlreiche Erzählungen” erhoffen wir uns sowohl Anregungen zu den Forschungsfragen, die im Laufe unserer Projektarbeit entstanden sind, als auch Einblicke in Ihre eigene Herangehensweise an narratologische Forschung und Sachverhalte. Zentral sind dabei die Frage nach dem Verhältnis von Erzählung und Praxiskontext sowie nach Formen und Funktionen des Erzählens in didaktischen Texten, die auf den ersten Blick nur wenige narrative Elemente enthalten. Dabei interessiert uns, wie die Vermittlung von mathematischem Wissen in einzelnen Textbausteinen und dem gesamten Text erzählerisch organisiert ist.

Words, Numbers, and Symbols: Vernacular Arithmetic and the Digital Turn
2026-07-15 00:00 - 23:59 | Edinburgh International Conference Center
Presentation at the Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, as a part of the panel “Global Knowledge(s): From Mono- to Plurilingual Research at the Intersection of Digital Humanities/AI, Language Corpora, and the Making of Scientific Knowledge”, by Carina Koch, Sarah Berghofer and Lisa Gollner

ARITHMETIC: Concluding project conference
2026-11-03 14:00 - 2026-11-05 15:00 | Palais Claudiana, Herzog-Friedrich-Straße, Innsbruck, 6020, Austria
The ERC project “ARITHMETIC. German Arithmetical Treatises in Manuscripts of the Late Middle Ages (1400‒1570)” will host its final conference in Innsbruck from November 3 to 5, 2026.
Our focus, both in terms of content and methodology, is on arithmetic manuscripts from the Late Middle Ages, examined from historical, cultural, literary, and editorial perspectives, with a strong emphasis on the digital humanities. Presentations will address arithmetic books as well as other texts based on the quadrivium, along with mathematical topics and specialized literature (and its didactics). A detailed conference program will follow.
