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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1519: Religious Landscapes, Political Climates: Interaction and Interference of Church and State throughout the Middle Ages

Thursday 8 July 2021, 09.00-10.30

Organiser:Mária Vargha, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Moderator/Chair:Stefan Eichert, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Paper 1519-aThe (Dead) Body Politics: Ecclesiastical Criticism of Anglo-Norman Kings
(Language: English)
James Plumtree, Department of General Education, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek
Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life
Paper 1519-bArchaeology and Destination of Pilgrimages from the Central European Perspective
(Language: English)
Jakub Sawicki, Institute of Archaeology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha
Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Religious Life
Paper 1519-cFrom Synagogue to Marian Church: Synagogue Conversion as a Political Tool under Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg
(Language: English)
Karen Stark, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Religious Life
Paper 1519-dEmpowering the Voiceless: The Role of the Rural Population in State Building and Christianisation in East-Central Europe
(Language: English)
Mária Vargha, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Religious Life
Abstract

The proposed session aims to bring together researchers from Europe, who are dealing with different, and yet connected affairs of state and church. The session aims to examine how and why state politics have interfered in the process of Christianisation in the early Middle Ages, promoted and supported certain cults, religious orders, or particular places of pilgrimage to the later Middle Ages. The session primarily focuses on the area of Central Europe, to give a longue durée perspective on the matter; however, it also aims to give a comparative view from the perspective of Western Europe.