Seminar

Empires and Furute Pasts in Universal History Writing

This meeting is held by our Young CAS Fellow Daniele Miano (UiO).

Tuesday 18 October

10:00 – James Corke-Webster: Providence and Persecution - Eusebius of Caesarea and Justified Violence

10:45 – Graeme Ward: Universal Past, Imperial Present? The Carolingian Context of Frechulf of Lisieux's Histories

11:30 - Break

12:00 - Marie Favereau: How Mongols and Tatars were integrated into Universal History

12:45 - Lunch

14:00 - Caroline Pennock: Beyond Cemanahuac - Globalizing cosmologies in the Aztec-Mexica world

14:45- Claudia Wittig: The roi-empereur in late medieval France - The theory of translatio as a foundation of political ideology

15:30 - Break

16:00 - Jaakko Hameen-Anttila: Sasanian Historiography

16:45 - Hervé Inglebert: God and the Sasanian Empire - Alternative Christian interpretations of the translatio imperii

Wednesday 19 October

10:00 - Michele Campopiano: Between Empires. Ancient History and translatio imperii in Southern Italy and its influences in Germany (9th-11th Centuries)

10:45 - David Salomoni: Teaching universality: Historical and Geographical education in context, 15th-16th centuries

11:30 - Break

12:00 - Round table on the publication plans

 

 

 

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