IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 2220: Diagnosing Crisis: Perceptions of Decay in Late Medieval Central Europe, I
Friday 9 July 2021, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha |
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| Organiser: | Vaclav Žůrek, Centre for Medieval Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha |
| Moderator/Chair: | Mark Whelan, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Paper 2220-a | Female Prophets as Signs of the End (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Mentalities, Religious Life |
| Paper 2220-b | Heresy, Schism, and the Wrestling Eagles: Describing Decay in Winand of Steeg's Adamas colluctancium aquillarum, 1419 (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Political Thought, Religious Life |
| Paper 2220-c | The Countdown to the Apocalypse: The Prophetic Vocabulary of Hussite Radicals (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Mentalities, Religious Life |
| Abstract | The historiographical debate on late medieval crisis has not come to a consensus on whether there was an economic and demographic depression in Central Europe around 1400. What, however, has emerged as clear is the general sense of decadence in late medieval society. The papers will examine how medieval authors detected the symptoms of crisis, what discourses they used to expose them, and where they located the responsibility for the decline. Were these diagnoses intended to prevent conflict, or did they in fact exacerbate them? These questions gain special relevance when applied to periods of increased social, political, and religious turbulence, such as the Hussite Revolution and the polemics surrounding Conciliarism and the Papal Schism. |