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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 512: Citizenship Discourses in the Early Middle Ages, I: Climates - Crisis, Conflict, and Consensus

Tuesday 6 July 2021, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:Onderzoekschool Mediëvistiek / Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht
Organiser:Els Rose, Onderzoekinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht
Moderator/Chair:Julia M. H. Smith, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Paper 512-aPestes corporis: Plague, Pestilence, and Civic Action in the Early Middle Ages
(Language: English)
Megan Welton, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Liturgy, Performance Arts - General
Paper 512-bSaving the City in a Climate of Hostilities
(Language: English)
Merel de Bruin-van de Beek, Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin, Sermons and Preaching
Paper 512-cClimates of Consensus at Early Medieval Episcopal Successions
(Language: English)
Robert Flierman, Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin
Abstract

Based at Utrecht University, the NWO VICI-project, Citizenship Discourses in the Early Middle Ages, 400-1100 (2017-2022), explores the development and impact of civic vocabulary in the Latin world 'after Rome'. In two sessions, the project members will capitalize on to IMC's main focus of climate and global awareness to uncover how specific civic and religious communities shaped their prospect on their environment, local and global, in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. In this first of two sessions, three papers will explore how civic communities in this period responded to natural disaster and political conflict, and how they searched for a climate of consensus in times of crisis.