{"id":36477,"date":"2023-07-12T11:55:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T11:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=36477"},"modified":"2023-07-12T11:55:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T11:55:23","slug":"cfp-international-medieval-congress-2024-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=36477","title":{"rendered":"CfP: International Medieval Congress 2024 \u2013 \u2018Crisis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The IMC provides an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of Medieval Studies<\/a>. Proposals on any topic related to the Middle Ages are welcome, while every year the IMC also chooses a special thematic focus. In 2024 this is \u2018Crisis<\/strong>\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Crisis\u2019 has long been used when writing about the Middle Ages \u2013 incorporating climate and environmental issues such as epidemics, famines, and floods, political issues such as the breakdowns of dynasties and popular revolts, and socio-cultural issues such as religious apocalypticism and the questioning of faith. Yet while crisis is a concept deep-rooted in a wide range of scholarship, it has also recently been reconsidered. Rather than seeing whole periods as characterized by crisis conditions, medievalists now explicitly ask \u2018crisis for whom?\u2019 Medieval institutions and systems could be resilient, surviving challenges and pressures. Yet people simultaneously suffered hardships, even if not everyone suffered to an equal degree. Medievalists are also interested in how individuals and communities coped with crisis. Indeed, medieval societies had their own perception and understanding of risk and found ways to adapt. An important component of this was the construction of crisis narratives, sometimes informed by religious beliefs \u2013 stories that changed across time, place, and audience. Temporality is also fundamental to medievalists\u2019 understanding of crisis, offering important counter-perspectives to views of linear progress and modernization paradigms often seen in crisis historiography. While substantial crises could serve as short-term ruptures and turning points, crises also provoked more incremental changes within economies, institutions, and cultures over time. Some things stayed the same despite crises and, thus, continuity remains important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new language of resilience, vulnerability, and adaptation has become prominent within medieval studies in recent years: stimulating new kinds of questions and new approaches to old issues, as well as allowing medievalists to engage with other disciplines. However, to what extent are these old ideas just repackaged with new terms? How we can define, measure, and test these concepts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IMC 2024 invites a plurality of viewpoints and critical engagement with these concepts. We hope to engage scholars working at a variety of geographical scales \u2013 from the global to the micro-community, and over a variety of timescales \u2013 from those linking the Middle Ages to Antiquity or the early modern period to those focusing on an individual year. The proportion of IMC sessions focused outside Europe continues to grow \u2013 a trend we hope to see again in 2024. We welcome approaches from across medieval studies, including economic, political, social, cultural, demographic, linguistic, artistic and visual, religious-historical and intellectual, environmental, as well as those relating to landscape and material culture, and approaches that engage those working outside the disciplines of medieval studies per se, integrating relevant evidence from genetics, bio-archaeology, historical climatology, and much more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Themes to be addressed may include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n