IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 137: Planning the Future and Order under Pressure
Monday 7 July 2014, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | SFB 923 'Bedrohte Ordnungen', Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen / DFG-Netzwerk 'ZeitenWelten - Zur Verschränkung von Weltdeutung und Zeitwahrnehmung im frühen und hohen Mittelalter' |
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| Organisers: | Miriam Czock, Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften, Universität Duisburg-Essen Christian Heinemeyer, Sonderforschungsbereich 923 'Bedrohte Ordnungen', Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sören Kaschke, Department of History, King's College London |
| Paper 137-a | Reverberation of Revelation: Planning the Future in the Early Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Religious Life |
| Paper 137-b | 1000 Things to Do before the End: Approaching the Future in Small Steps, 12th-13th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 137-c | Wisdom, Astrology, Hard Work: Planning the Future in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Education, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | Planning ahead for the future seems to be a very modern concern, as planning and predicting are part of a formative approach to the future. The Middle Ages, on the other hand, seem to be a period where nothing new ever happened, or if it did, it was connoted as something that has been there all along. Our session tries to determine how medieval society approached its future especially in political, cultural, and socio-economic troubles, which seem to promote any acts of planning. We are especially interested in asking if and how stability, unanimity, and legitimacy interdepended with ideas of the future in times when order was under pressure. The session shall shed light on medieval visions of the future and on the plans made to make it happen. |