IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 334: Com​parative Reconquests
Monday 3 July 2017, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Historians of Medieval Iberia |
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| Organisers: | Kurt Villads Jensen, Historiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet Anthony Lappin, Department of History, National University of Ireland, Maynooth |
| Moderator/Chair: | Kurt Villads Jensen, Historiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet |
| Paper 334-a | Byzantine Narratives of 'Reconquest': 13th-Century and Modern Historiographies (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 334-b | Reading the Reconquest in Biblical and Classical History in the General estoria (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Mentalities |
| Paper 334-c | Christian Plans to Retake Jerusalem and/or Constantinople in the 14th and 15th Centuries (Language: English) |
| Abstract | We shall examine the conceptualisation and practice of reconquest from a comparative viewpoint, considering how, in various circumstances and geographical situations, the terminology of reconquest was deployed, where political actors sought to assert control over others' space by claiming that they were, in fact, re-asserting former control, either through appeal to their own history or to authoritative works, such as the Bible. We will expore the terminology and depictions of reconquests which make implicit and explicit claims in returning what has become other to rejoin what was before undivided and the same. |