IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 846: Growing Old and Old Age in the Middle Ages
Tuesday 2 July 2024, 16:30-18:00
| Sponsor: | Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für mittelalterliche Geschichte |
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| Organiser: | Martina Giese, Institut für Geschichte, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg |
| Moderator/Chair: | Claudia Wittig, Institut für Geschichte, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg |
| Paper 846-a | Evaluation and Usefulness of Concrete Indications of Age in Late Medieval Sources (Language: English) Index terms: Demography, Economics - General, Language and Literature - Latin and Social History |
| Paper 846-b | Too Old to Rule, Too Young to Die?: Resignations of Late Medieval Secular Princes of the Holy Roman Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Politics and Diplomacy and Social History |
| Paper 846-c | Ripe for the Monastery?: The Age of Life as a Motive for the Monastic Conversion of Western European Secular Rulers in the Early and High Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Monasticism, Politics and Diplomacy and Social History |
| Abstract | The section is proposed on behalf of a renowned German society of scholars, the 'Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für mittelalterliche Geschichte e. V.'(KA), of which she is a regular member. The projected contributions from three junior scholars will be published in extended versions in German in the series 'Vorträge und Forschungen'. The proposed session at IMC 2024 will serve to present KA's activities – which are traditionally connected in German and centred at the society’s venue on the famous island of Reichenau on Lake Constance – to a broader international audience. The proposed session at Leeds will explore perceptions and interpretations of (old) age from three perspectives. The first will focus on concrete expressions for old age and on descriptions of the mainly negative effects of advanced age in late medieval sources (T. Daniels), the second, on the example of forced or voluntary resignations of late medieval secular princes of the Holy Roman Empire (B. Müsegades), and the third, on monastic conversions of Western European secular rulers in the Early and High Middle Ages (F. M. Schnack). |