Date/Time
Date(s) - 13 Apr 2013
9:00 AM - 5:45 PM
Location
010 East Pyne, Princeton University
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Graduate Conference in Medieval Studies at Princeton University
War, Peace, and Religion in the Middle Ages
April 13, 2013
9:00-10:30: Keynote Speaker
Brett Whalen, Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill:
“War and Peace in the Apocalyptic Mode: Joachim of Fiore and the Meaning of History”
10:45-12:15: Shaping and Reshaping Narratives of Conflict
Dhwani Patel, King’s College London:
“Resolving Conflict and Reclaiming Papal Authority in twelfth-century Rome: a Ritual Interpretation of the Mirabilia urbis Romae”
Anna Lankina, University of Florida:
“In Heresy and War: Military Narratives in the Church History of Philostorgius”
Lee Mordechai, Princeton University:
“Religion, Ethnicity, and War in Late Antique Greek Ecclesiastical Histories”
12:15-1:00: Lunch
1:00-2:00: All is Fair in Love and War? The Ethics of Violence
Emily Shreve, Lehigh University:
“From Malencolie to Homicide: Wrath and Warfare in Book III of Gower’s Confessio Amantis”
Jonathan Martin, Princeton University:
“What’s Wrong with Pillaging? Christian Criticism of the Art of War in the Late Medieval German Heroic Epic Virginal”
2:10-3:40: Redefining the “Crusade”: New Fronts, New Contexts
Eb Daniels, University of Toronto
“God wills what? Division over the Diversion of the Fourth Crusade”
David Lennington, Princeton University
“Religion and Geography: Rethinking the Crusades”
Jeffrey Sullebarger, Fordham University
“Canonical Thought in Teutonic Order Literature: Just War and the Chronicle of Prussia”
4:00-5:00: Proselytize, Conquer, Convert: Placing Non-Christians in Christian Imperial Rhetoric
Alice Hicklin, University of Cambridge
“Charlemagne, Louis the Pious, and the ninth-century Frankish Missions to Denmark”
Christopher Bonura, University of California Berkeley
“Who Will Conquer the Saracens at the End of Time? The Apocalyptic Last Emperor and his Final War in the Rhetoric of Empire from the Seventh to the Tenth Centuries”
5:45: Dinner for Presenters and Hosts