Colloque international
Après la crise au Moyen Âge = Aftermath of Conflict and Crisis in the Middle Ages
Date : Wednesday 24th to Friday 26th may 2023
Place : salle Guillemet (SHA-URF sciences humaines) le 24 mai
CESCM, Salle Crozet, 24 rue de la Chaîne, Poitiers le 25 mai
Pour la sortie du 26 mai, inscriptions auprès de martin.aurell@univ-poitiers.fr
Les guerres, les pestes et les catastrophes naturelles occupent une place essentielle dans les récits médiévaux. Elles posent le problème des réponses que la société leur apporte. Ce colloque, initiative conjointe de chercheurs de l’Université de Poitiers et de l’Université du Tennessee à Knoxville, explore les répercussions des guerres et d’autres crises par l’analyse des bouleversements culturels, sociaux et institutionnels qu’elles ont provoqués. Plusieurs questions seront au cœur de notre rencontre. Comment les hommes et les femmes ont-ils réagi aux catastrophes humaines et naturelles ? De quelle façon se sont-ils adaptés aux nouvelles situations engendrées par ces crises ? Les autorités ont-elles fait preuve de résilience après des conflits militaires ? Les auteurs et artistes ont-ils abordé les traumatismes de l’après-guerre ou de l’après-crise ? Quels changements religieux ou sociaux ont eu lieu à la suite des épidémies ? Les calamités naturelles ou les troubles civils ont-ils produit des réponses culturelles favorisant des développements positifs au lendemain des tragédies ?
Wars, plagues, and natural disasters appear prominently in narratives about medieval culture. Accounts of disasters open up questions about the aftermath and responses. This conference, a joint venture of scholars at the Université de Poitiers and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, explores the repercussions of wars and other crises by analyzing cultural, social, and institutional developments that emerged after such afflictions. Participants will address questions such as: How did people react to human and natural disasters? Did they adapt to new situations brought about by these crisis and conflicts? How did authorities demonstrate resilience following military conflicts? How was post-war or post-crisis trauma addressed by some authors or artists? What religious or social changes occurred in the wake of health crises? Did natural calamities or civil unrest produce cultural responses that promoted positive developments despite the tragedies?
Programm
Wednesday 24th May
9h-12h
Gregor KALAS (Riggsby Director of Marco and Associate Professor of Architectural History, Univ. of Tennessee) : Charity and Food Relief after the Byzantine Reconquest of Rome
Felege-Selam YIRGA (Assistant Professor of Late Antique and Early Medieval History, Univ. of Tennessee) : How the Emperors of Rome Lost the Royal Crown: John of Nikiu’s Interpretation of the Crisis of the Arab Invasion of Egypt
Matthew GILLIS (Associate Professor of History, Univ. of Tennessee) : A Heroic Response to War’s Horrors) : Abbo of Saint-Germain’s Epic of the Siege of Paris, 885-886
14h-16h
Pierre BIGOT (PhD student, univ. of Poitiers) : Finding Shelter in Religion After War) : The Case of Haakon Jarl in Norway, 10th Century
Martin AURELL (Professor of Medieval History, univ. of Poitiers) : The Aftermath of the 1173 Rebellion in the Angevin Empire: Eleanor Of Aquitaine Captivity and Her Sons’ Punition
Thursday 25th May
9h-12h
Thomas MAURER (PhD student, Univ. of Tennessee) : The Shield of the World is Given in Faith) : Apocalyptic Responses to the siege of Parma (1247-1248)
Hélène TORCHEBOEUF (PhD student, univ. of Poitiers) : The Spiritual Experience of a German Mystical Woman as a Reflection of the Ambivalent Society of the 13th Century Torn Between Death and Life
Anne-Hélène MILLER (Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Univ. of Tennessee) : Ghosts of Trauma Past: Disillusionment in the Late Medieval Crusades
14h-16h
Pascale DROUET (Professor of English Renaissance Literature, univ. of Poitiers) : To Contain or Not to Contain Vagrancy: a Social Aftermath of the English Reformation
Louis ANDRE (PhD student, univ. of Poitiers) : Conflicts on Stage: The Aftermath of the Querelle des femmes in Jacobean England
Friday 26th May
Visit to Chauvigny and Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe