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IMC 2017: Sessions

Session 1316: The Many Different Others of Medieval Central Europe

Wednesday 5 July 2017, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:MECERN, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Organiser:Nada Zečević, Medieval Central Europe Research Network, Central European University, Budapest / Department of History, University of Eastern Sarajevo
Moderator/Chair:Cosmin Popa-Gorjanu, Departamentul de Istorie, Arheologie si Muzeologie, Universitatea 1 Decembrie 1918, Alba Iulia
Paper 1316-aLatin Christendom's Others: 13th-Century Papal Legates in Poland, Hungary, and England
(Language: English)
Agata Zielinska, Department of History, University College London
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy, Religious Life
Paper 1316-bThe Changing Other: Émigré Communities from the Balkan Peninsula in Late Medieval Hungary
(Language: English)
Nada Zečević, Medieval Central Europe Research Network, Central European University, Budapest / Department of History, University of Eastern Sarajevo
Index terms: Economics - Urban, Geography and Settlement Studies, Religious Life, Social History
Paper 1316-cFeelings in the Siege: Fear, Trust, and Emotional Bonding on the Missionary and Crusader Baltic Rim, 12th and 13th Centuries
(Language: English)
Wojtek Jezierski, Institutionen för historiska studier, Göteborgs Universitet
Index terms: Crusades, Military History, Social History
Abstract

Cored in the Kingdoms of Hungary, Poland, and Bohemia, medieval Central Europe had varying geographic forms, patterns of political organization, and socio-economic and cultural structures, also reflecting wider religious divergences and multiple cultural connections. These were particularly apparent in the region's dynamic exchange with the surrounding areas. Some forms of this exchange, such as political connections of the ruling elites have already been initially researched, while the interactions that took place in less visible and marginal structures, or with more distant parts of the continent, need yet to be explored. By focusing on several micro-examples, this session indicates new aspects of the exchange that contributed to the region's socio-cultural diversification.