Annotation
This series of English lectures delivered by Czech and foreign scholars takes a look at various forms of medieval conflicts – social, political, intra-, as well as inter-religious – and traces their expressions in different media (image, music, performance, literary genres etc.).
Schedule: 5.10. Matthew Champion (Birkbeck, University of London): Broken Voice; Broken Soul: Conflicts over Music in Late Medieval Northern Europe 12.10. Pavel Sládek (FF UK): ‘As Soon as Something Is Published in Print, All Manuscripts Disappear’: The Impact of Printing Press on Jewish Book Culture, 1450–1650 19.10. Martin Borýsek (University of York): ‘When Brethren Dwell Together in Disunity’: Conflicts and Contrasts in the Jewish Communities at the End of the Middle Ages as Documented in the Takkanot ha-Kahal Literature 26.10. Daniel Soukup (ÚČL AV ČR/UP Olomouc): Valley of Tears: Medieval Anti-Jewish Narratives and Violence in the Czech Lands 2.11. Lucie Korecká (FF UK): Oddaverja þáttr, Bishop Þorlákr Þórhallsson, and the Conflict Between Secular and Ecclesiastical Power in Iceland and Norway 9.11. Martin Bažil (FF UK): The Old Czech Unguentarius (Mastičkář): Theatre as a Medium of Social Conflict? 16.11. Julia Crispin (Universität Münster): ‘Roy de France à bon droit, et d’Angleterre ainsi comme on le voit’: English Political Imagery During the Hundred Years War 23.11. Pavel Soukup (FLÚ AV ČR): Preaching the Cross Against the Hussites 30.11. Sita Steckel (Universität Münster): ‘Polémique universitaire’? Media, Argumentation and Audience in the Secular-Mendicant Conflict at Paris, c. 1252-57 7.12. Jan Dienstbier (FF UK): The Pope, the Duke, and the Emperor: Traces of Political Conflict in the Murals of the Cemetery Chapel in Riffiano (1415) 14.12. Sara Lipton (SUNY Stony Brook): Do Pictures Matter? The Agency of Anti-Jewish Imagery 21.12. Vojtěch Bažant & Martin Šorm (FF UK/FLÚ AV ČR): Good and Bad Councils: Modern Constructions of Message in the New Council of Smil Flaška