IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 827: Borders in Breach: Morals of Conquest in the Middle Ages
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel / Universität Paderborn |
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| Organisers: | Anne Foerster, Historisches Institut, Universität Paderborn Rike Szill, Historisches Seminar - Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel |
| Moderator/Chair: | Philipp Winterhager, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| Respondent: | Philipp Winterhager, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| Paper 827-a | Einhard's Vita Karoli magni and the Morals of Conquest (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities |
| Paper 827-b | A Tale of Two Homilies: The Danish Conquest of England (1016) within the Wider Framework of Apocalypse and Reform in the Oeuvre of Wulfstan of York (d. 1023) (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 827-c | Borders, Breaches, and Biased Admirers: Facing Ottoman Expansion in the 15th-Century Aegean Sea (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities |
| Abstract | This session looks at medieval conquests as trifold transgressions of borders since the seizure of foreign territory affects not only the geographic frontiers of realms. During the process of conquest, previous social demarcations within the societies involved, as well as those between them, inevitably shift. Moreover, medieval authors considered conquests also under the aspect of adherence to or violation of moral and normative boundaries. The session therefore aims to reveal the strategies the authors used to cope with conquest, how they evaluated it morally and with reference to classical role models or other antecedents, and what significance the social self-positioning of the writers had in the process. It also questions the dichotomous understanding of victors / conquerors and defeated / conquered. |