Peace in Theory and Practice in the Middle Ages
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville
Organizer Name
Anne-Hélène Miller
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville
Presider Name
Anne-Hélène Miller
Paper Title 1
Peace Personified: Emperor Manuel I Komnenos as Christomimetis and Arbiter of Orthodoxy
Presenter 1 Name
Karin Krause
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of Chicago
Paper Title 2
Pax Honesta and Holy War: Conceptions of Honourable Diplomacy between Crusaders and Muslims
Presenter 2 Name
Scott Moynihan
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Pembroke College, Univ. of Oxford
Paper Title 3
Tabescunt leges et iam pax defluit omnis: Models of Society and Narratives of Peace in France at the Turn of the First Millennium
Presenter 3 Name
Orsolya Varró
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
Paper Title 4
The Sound of Peace in Medieval Cities
Presenter 4 Name
Jehangir Yezdi Malegam
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Duke Univ.
Start Date
9-5-2019 3:30 PM
Session Location
Bernhard 213
Description
In light of recent studies on peace, such as those by Nicolas Offenstadt, Robert F. Yeager, and Tania Van Hemelryck, this panel welcomes papers that revisit theories and practices of peace and peace-making throughout the Middle Ages from a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to literature, history, visual arts and theology. How was peace understood or instrumentalized depending on the period, geographical area or religion? Who were the beneficiaries and/or actors of peace at a given time? And what were the concessions made to achieve peace and the actual consequences of peace-negotiations? How did discourses of peace relate to political or religious ideologies, social issues, and gender representations? Studies that engage with a discussion of the traditional, yet polemical, Augustinian viewpoints on peace and “just war” and their reception in the later Middle Ages, as well as differences in cross-cultural approaches to ideas of peace vis-à-vis Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are particularly encouraged. The goal of this session is to bring together specialists of different periods and disciplines in order to generate a comparative discussion that will shed new light on this important aspect of medieval culture. Mary Dzon
Peace in Theory and Practice in the Middle Ages
Bernhard 213
In light of recent studies on peace, such as those by Nicolas Offenstadt, Robert F. Yeager, and Tania Van Hemelryck, this panel welcomes papers that revisit theories and practices of peace and peace-making throughout the Middle Ages from a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to literature, history, visual arts and theology. How was peace understood or instrumentalized depending on the period, geographical area or religion? Who were the beneficiaries and/or actors of peace at a given time? And what were the concessions made to achieve peace and the actual consequences of peace-negotiations? How did discourses of peace relate to political or religious ideologies, social issues, and gender representations? Studies that engage with a discussion of the traditional, yet polemical, Augustinian viewpoints on peace and “just war” and their reception in the later Middle Ages, as well as differences in cross-cultural approaches to ideas of peace vis-à-vis Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are particularly encouraged. The goal of this session is to bring together specialists of different periods and disciplines in order to generate a comparative discussion that will shed new light on this important aspect of medieval culture. Mary Dzon