IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 604: Theology of History and Intellectual Cultures of War in the Long Middle Ages
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Graduiertenkolleg 2304, 'Byzanz und die euromediterranen Kriegskulturen: Austausch, Abgrenzung und Rezeption' Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz |
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| Organiser: | Lorenz Kammerer, Graduiertenkolleg 2304 'Byzanz und die euromediterranen Kriegskulturen: Austausch, Abgrenzung und Rezeption', Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ludger Körntgen, Historisches Seminar, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
| Paper 604-a | Christianity and Warfare in Orosius' Historiae Adversum Paganos (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Theology |
| Paper 604-b | The Role of God in the Chronicon Salernitanum's Report on the Arab Siege of Salerno, 871-872 (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Local History, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 604-c | God's Property as a Motif of Just War in the Context of the Crusades (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Rhetoric, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 604-d | Interpreting Military Defeat during the Second Hussite War (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Sermons and Preaching, Theology |
| Abstract | Warfare was an omnipresent phenomenon throughout the Middle Ages. Contemporary chroniclers and intellectuals living through these dramatic events interpreted them in a thoroughly Christian framework. This session offers insights of early career scholars on this process from a longue durée perspective of the entire medieval age stretching from the 5th to the 15th century. On a case-study basis, the papers cover respectively the influential historiographical work of Orosius, the 10th-century Chronicle of Salerno, the legitimation of the Crusades, and their intellectual legacy in the Late Middle Ages. From different geographical and temporal backgrounds, they illustrate networks and entanglements at play in the interaction of Christianity and warfare. |