JOURNÉES SCIENTIFIQUES EN MINERVOIS

Journées Scientifiques en Minervois - 2024 theme: Seats and Fortifications
The program
CONFERENCES
Saturday, November 9, 9am to 5:30pm
8h30/9h15 welcome coffee
9h15/9h30 speeches
9:30 / 10:30 François PLOTON-NICOLLET "Sieges and fortifications in Late Antiquity: around the testimony of Mérobaude"
10:30 / 11:30 Vivien VASSAL "Inventory of castral and/or abandoned sites in Hérault 2009-2018"
11h45 / 12h45 Nicolas FAUCHERRE "Des châteaux capétiens de la sénéchaussée de Carcassonne" (Capetian castles in the Carcassonne seneschal)
12:45 pm: Lunch according to taste - packed lunch on site
2:30 pm / 3:30 pm Marie VALLEE-ROCHE will present the work of Frédéric LOPPE: Minerve, enceinte extérieure orientale (2005-2019), the contribution of three archaeological excavations to our knowledge of the site's occupation and fortification (Neolithic-Modern period)
4:00 pm/ 5:30 pm SITE VISIT accompanied by Nicolas FAUCHERRE and Marie VALEE-ROCHE
4:00 pm: carpool departure - meet at the Siran salle socioculturelle parking lot
4:30 pm The village of MINERVE

Sunday, November 10, 9am to 5pm
8h30/9h15 welcome coffee
9h15/10h15 Laure BARTHET "Combattre à Montségur. Archaeology of the 1243-1244 siege"
10h15/ 11h15 Georges PUCAL "Le décor peint du plafond du Palais Vieux de Narbonne : un effet "collatéral" de la guerre contre les Cathares?
11:30/12:30 Georges ARDILEY "Se défendre du Moyen-Âge aux guerres de communautés villageoises et forts villageois. A functional approach "
12:45pm: Lunch break - For those who wish, lunch is available at the Bar Le Minervois in Siran (starter, main course, dessert, wine and coffee: 20?) Reservations required by 05/11 on 04 68 91 43 07 (limited number of places)
2:15 pm VISIT TO THE SITE accompanied by Frédéric MAZERAN
2:30 pm: carpool departure to Siran salle socioculturelle parking lot
15h/17h The village of Ferrals-Les-Montagnes
5:30 pm Closing drink at Siran offered by the Commune

EXHIBITIONS
2 days - free admission
All day long
Salle socioculturelle
"Détours des tours des vallées de l'Orb et du Jaur" Photographic exhibition produced by the Communauté de communes du Minervois au Caroux.
"Minerve: occupation and fortification of the site" Exhibition put on by the Menerbés association.

WORKSHOPS
2 days
led by the association Les Chevaliers de l'Ordre des 4 Vents
free of charge | all public | outdoor space

o Poliorcétique workshop
understand the history and techniques of a castle siege
30 min.

o Archery and Crossbow workshop
bow and crossbow practice
from 5 min.

o Sword fighting workshop
try your hand at swordplay
from 3 to 5 min.

o Medieval cooking workshop
food preparation as in the Middle Ages
10 to 30 min.

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