IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 2320: Diagnosing Crisis: Perceptions of Decay in Late Medieval Central Europe, II
Friday 9 July 2021, 16.30-18.00
| 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: | Frances Kneupper, Arch Dalrymple III Department of History University of Mississippi |
| Paper 2320-a | 'Worse than it used to be': The Notion of the 'Glorious Past' in Texts from Hussite Bohemia (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities, Political Thought, Religious Life |
| Paper 2320-b | Wartime Terrors of the Hussite Revolution in Religious Polemic in the Second Half of the 15th Century (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. |