IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 1321: Crisis as Catalyst, IV: Crisis Management, II - Consolidation: Looking Back to the Future
Wednesday 3 July 2024, 16:30-18:00
| Sponsor: | Royal Studies Network |
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| Organiser: | Zita Rohr, Department of History & Archaeology, Macquarie University, Sydney |
| Moderator/Chair: | Zita Rohr, Department of History & Archaeology, Macquarie University, Sydney |
| Paper 1321-a | The Crisis of Lineage: The Noble House of Cleves and the Swan Knight (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Mentalities and Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1321-b | Crisis or Consolidation?: The Imperial Monarchy under Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich III and the Imperial Response to Burgundian Expansion, c. 1470-1475 (Language: English) Index terms: Military History and Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1321-c | Solving a 16th-Century Worker Shortage Crisis: Prest Craftsmen at Henry VIII's Hampton Court Palace in the 1530s - a Medieval Tradition Reimagined (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Secular and Economics - General |
| Paper 1321-d | Modern Problems, Medieval Solutions: Royal Succession in Post-Napoleonic Iberia (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Law, Politics and Diplomacy and Rhetoric |
| Abstract | In the popular culture of the West, the Chinese word for 'crisis' has misconstrued the two Chinese characters 危机 (wēijī or wéijī) to mean danger and opportunity. This misperception has been popularized since the late 1930s but gained increased currency with J. F. Kennedy's repetition of the trope during his election campaign stump speeches of 1959-60. While the first character wēi does indeed mean danger or precariousness, the second Chinese character jī is polysemous and therefore far more enigmatic than mere 'opportunity' - it is something more like 'change point'. The five interlocking sessions sponsored by the Royal Studies Network will explore 'dangers' afforded by crises as well as the decisive 'change points', catalysts and stimulants they embodied. This final paper session of our four set paper series, forms the second part of the theme of Crisis Management and deals with the consolidation of dynasties and lineages as well as dynastic territorial sovereignty that relied upon their medieval antecedents and myths to avert crises. |