IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1711: Shaping the Things to Come: Strategies for Securing a Future in Religious and Urban Contexts, 1100-1500
Thursday 7 July 2016, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Universität Duisburg-Essen |
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| Organisers: | Miriam Czock, Historisches Institut, Universität Duisburg-Essen Amalie Fößel, Historisches Institut, Universität Duisburg-Essen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Miriam Czock, Historisches Institut, Universität Duisburg-Essen |
| Paper 1711-a | Protecting What is Going to be Left Behind: Crusader Strategies to Ensure Seigneurial Continuity at Home (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Genealogy and Prosopography, Historiography - Medieval, Lay Piety |
| Paper 1711-b | Charity as Precaution: Jewish Converts in 13th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Mentalities, Political Thought, Religious Life |
| Paper 1711-c | Planning for One's Old Age: Annuities, Bonds, and Rents in the Northern German Medieval Town of Lüneburg (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Economics - Urban |
| Abstract | The question how to shape our future in face of changes in global society seems more important than ever. The Middle Ages on the other hand were long believed to be a period in which only an eternal future was of any importance. Thus, the question of to what extent people in the Middle Ages actively tried to influence their future is yet to recieve full scholarly attention. Therefore, the session seeks to examine how different social agents like nobles about to go on crusade, the English king taking on the situation of converted Jews, and citizens facing old age took formative approaches to their very differing present situations using economic, political, or social networks. It will show how people in the Middle Ages looked at opportunities as well as obstacles and focused on priorities, modified their social and financial activities, attitudes, and even culture trying to shape the future for the best. |