25th International Medieval Congress, Leeds

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The conference was held at the University of Leeds from 2nd to 5th July 2018. It was attended by a large number of members of the Centre as well as other Cezch researches and expers from the field of Medieval studies. Some of the participated as organizers (Special Strand – “Memory” – Lucie Doležalová, Jan Čermák) others as speakers.

There was also a special  workshop of the HERA project Sound Memories organized by members of the Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Arts (Charles University). You can watch a short documentary about the project here.

Overview of the presentations given by speakers from the Czech Republic:

Iva Adámková, Institute of Greek & Latin Studies, Univerzita Karlova, Praha

Manipulation des Gedächtnisses bei den ersten Zisterzienser?
(Language: Deutsch)
Index Terms: Ecclesiastical History; Language and Literature – Latin; Religious Life

Vojtěch Bažant, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha / Faculty of Arts, Univerzita Karlova, Praha
Memory of a Pilgrim: An Instrument of Urban Community Representation
(Language: English)
Index Terms: Architecture – Religious; Lay Piety; Local History
Matouš Jaluška, Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha 

Old Czech Duke Ernst as a Quest for Surrogate Centre
(Language: English)
Index Terms: Crusades; Language and Literature – Slavic; Learning (The Classical Inheritance)

Jindřich Marek, Faculty of Arts, Univerzita Karlova, Praha 

Václav Koranda the Younger: Utraquist Tradition and Memory
(Language: English)
Index Terms: Bibliography; Language and Literature – Latin; Manuscripts and Palaeography; Printing History

Lenka Panušková, Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha

Heavenly Jerusalem as a Diagram: Symbolics in Devotional Practices
(Language: English)
Index Terms: Art History – Painting; Liturgy; Manuscripts and Palaeography; Religious Life

Martin Šorm, Centre for Medieval Studies / Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha / Department of Czech History, Univerzita Karlova, Praha 

Politics of Abduction and ‚Sites of Memory‘ in the So-Called Dalimil’s Chronicle
(Language: English)
Index Terms: Gender Studies; Historiography – Medieval; Language and Literature – Slavic; Sexuality , MODERATOR: Memory in Chrétien de Troyes

Věra Soukupová, Department of History, University of Ostrava / Department of Czech History, Univerzita Karlova, Praha

Gendered Body Politic and the Construction of Czech Historical Memory
(Language: English)
Index Terms: Gender Studies; Historiography – Medieval; Language and Literature – Slavic; Political Thought , MODERATOR: ‚Remember me when I am gone‘: Methods of Personal Commemoration

Jaroslav Svátek, Centre for Medieval Studies, Univerzita Karlova, Praha

How to Transfer the Holy Land Reality?: Pilgrim Accounts as Vehicles of Holy Land Transmission in the Late 15th Century
(Language: English)
Index Terms: Architecture – Religious; Lay Piety; Religious Life

Ludmila Luňáková, Department of History, Masarykova univerzita, Brno

Creating the Identity of the gens Boemorum through the Holy Days of Czech Patrons in the Narrative Sources of Early Premyslid Bohemia, until 1198
(Language: English)
Index Terms: Hagiography; Historiography – Medieval; Mentalities; Political Thought

Lucie Mazalová, Department of Classical Studies, Masarykova univerzita, Brno

The Influence of John Wycliffe in Jan Hus’s Criticism of the Antichrist
(Language: English)
Index Terms: Language and Literature – Latin; Manuscripts and Palaeography; Theology

Petra Mutlová, Department of Classical Studies, Masarykova univerzita, Brno

Networks in the Czech Reformation: The Case of the Lay Chalice
(Language: English)
Index Terms: Archives and Sources; Computing in Medieval Studies; Language and Literature – Latin; Theology

František Novotný, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno

Multi anni elapsi, multi fratres mortui‘: Time, Distance, and Self-Defense of the Interrogated Knights Templar
(Language: English)
Index Terms: Archives and Sources; Ecclesiastical History; Law; Monasticism

Eliška Poláčková, Department of Theatre Studies, Masarykova univerzita, Brno / Centre for Classical Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha

A Prince or a Pauper?: Staging Noble Lineage in the Coronation Order of Emperor Charles IV
(Language: English)
Index Terms: Performance Arts – General; Politics and Diplomacy

Peter Szabó, Department of Vegetation Ecology, Botanical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno

Nature Conservation: A Revival of Medieval Resource Management?
(Language: English)
Index Terms: Economics – Rural; Geography and Settlement Studies

Lenka Vrlíková, Faculty of Arts, Masarykova univerzita, Brno

Beyond the Sea: Cross-Cultural Interaction in Ethiopian Medieval Art
(Language: English)
Index Terms: Art History – Painting; Ecclesiastical History; Liturgy; Religious Life

Libor Zajíc, Department of History, Masarykova univerzita, Brno
The Forgotten Patrons: The Cult of Holy Five Brothers in the Czech Lands in the Period between Middle Ages and Present
(Language: English)
Index Terms: Ecclesiastical History; Hagiography; Liturgy; Religious Life
David Zbíral, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno

The Participation of Women (and Some Men) in Languedocian Catharism: A Network Science Perspective, II
(Language: English)
Index Terms: Computing in Medieval Studies; Gender Studies; Religious Life; Social History

Michaela Antonín Malaníková, History Department, Palacký University, Olomouc

Commemorative Strategies in Medieval Moravian Wills from a Gender Perspective
(Language: English)
Index Terms: Daily Life; Gender Studies; Religious Life; Social History

Vladimír Liščák, Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha
The Alan Christian Nobles at the Court of Great Khans
(Language: English)
Index Terms: Language and Literature – Latin; Religious Life; Social History
Jan Malý, Department of General History, Univerzita Karlova, Praha

Inventing the Hero: The Origins of the Myth of Jaroslav of Sternberg
(Language: English)
Index Terms: Archives and Sources; Genealogy and Prosopography; Historiography – Medieval; Military History

Kristýna Strnadová, Department of Greak & Latin Studies, Univerzita Karlova, Praha

Remembering the Schism of 1159: Alexander III and Victor IV in Contemporary Sources
(Language: English)
Index Terms: Ecclesiastical History; Language and Literature – Latin

Anna Vrtálková, Department of Ecclesiastical History & Patrology, Univerzita Karlova, Praha

Memory and Testaments in Late Medieval Bohemia
(Language: English)
Index Terms: Daily Life; Lay Piety; Local History; Religious Life

Jana Valtrová, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno

Remembering Franciscan Martyrs in Europe and Asia
(Language: English)
Index Terms: Hagiography; Religious Life; Social History

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