IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 1320: The Rules of Information: News, Communication, and Propaganda in the 15th Century
Wednesday 11 July 2012, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Zentrum für Mittelalter- & Renaissancestudien, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
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| Organiser: | Karoline Dominika Döring, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, München |
| Moderator/Chair: | Maximilian Schuh, Lehrstuhl für Mittelalterliche Geschichte mit dem Schwerpunkt Früh- und Hochmittelalter, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| Paper 1320-a | Bavarian Visitation Reports from the Era of Conciliarism (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Political Thought, Religious Life |
| Paper 1320-b | War and the Media: The Siege of Rhodes (1480) as a Media Event (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Printing History, Rhetoric |
| Paper 1320-c | Transmitting Information as a Rule: The Education of German Merchants and its Importance for the Spread of News around 1500 (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Local History |
| Abstract | The session surveys the rules that apply to the acquisition, dissemination and use of information in the 15th century: the first paper studies different sorts of information in the visitation reports by Johannes Grünwalder (c. 1392-1452), vicar general of the see of Freising and prominent church reformer in Southern Germany. The second paper analyses war as media event and focusses on the unique news coverage provided by the Knights Hospitallers on the siege of Rhodes in 1480. The last paper deals with the transmission of news as a fundamental rule in the context of merchants' education and its consequences for the development of communication, the spread of knowledge and the consolidation of trade in the 15th century. |