IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1224: Prophecy and Empire, I

Wednesday 9 July 2014, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:	Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol
Organiser:	Anke Holdenried, Department of History, University of Bristol
Moderator/Chair:	Anke Holdenried, Department of History, University of Bristol
Paper 1224-a	History, Memory, and Imperial Identity in Medieval Apocalyptica (Language: English) Lorenzo DiTommaso, Department of Religion, Concordia University, Montréal Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities, Political Thought
Paper 1224-b	What Empire? (Language: English) Lesley Coote, Andrew Marvell Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies, University of Hull Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities, Political Thought
Paper 1224-c	The King and I: Prophecies Right or Wrong and Their Consequences from Joachim of Fiore to Nostradamus (Language: English) Julia Eva Wannenmacher, Fachbereich Theologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Political Thought
Abstract	The aim of these sessions is to investigate how imperial and prophetic traditions interlinked in the medieval period (c. 500-1500). Topics include: • Classical and Christian prophecy/empire • Non-European traditions of 'prophecy' and 'empire' • Emperors/rulers as sponsors of prophecy • The medieval legend of the Last Emperor: its development and adaptation to various contexts throughout Christendom, East and West • 'Informal' empires: how Latin and vernacular texts use prophecy to construct rulership and to comment on the aspirations of specific rulers or dynasties • Non-biblical traditions of prognostication, for example astrological predictions concerning the fate of different medieval realms and that of their enemies • The interdependency of 'prophecy' and 'empire' in medieval visual and material culture • Approaches to 'Prophecy and Empire' in modern historiography