IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 222: Endowments, Renewal, and Reform, II: External Renewal
Monday 6 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | European Research Council Project 'FOUNDMED - Foundations in Medieval Societies: Cross-Cultural Comparisons' |
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| Organiser: | Zachary Chitwood, European Research Council Project 'FOUNDMED - Foundations in Medieval Societies: Cross-Cultural Comparisons', Humboldt Universität, Berlin |
| Moderator/Chair: | Annette Schmiedchen, Seminar für Indologie, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg |
| Paper 222-a | Refounding Monasteries and Dynastic Rivalry on Mount Athos in the Late Middle Ages, 13th-15th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Monasticism |
| Paper 222-b | Social Differences as a Cause for the Appearance of New Foundation-Types in Medieval Jewish Communities (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Religious Life |
| Paper 222-c | Pious Endowments as Instruments for Religious Reformation and Dynastic Legitimation in the Ayyubid and Mamluk Periods (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Although founders in the various cultures of the Middle Ages from Iceland to India almost invariably prescribed that their endowments should last forever, renewal and reform were constantly required to overcome existential threats (confiscations by the religious and secular authorities, impoverishment of the endowment, etc.) in the course of an endowment's history. In these sessions researchers from a variety of different fields examine not only how endowments were reformed and renewed internally in markedly differing contexts (Session I), but also how endowments themselves became instruments of external renewal (Session II), for instance as tools of dynastic legitimation. |