Rivalry the Fourth Biennial Conference of the Medieval Central Europe Research Network (MECERN) Online Organized by the University of Gdańsk
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Networks – Cooperation – Rivalry The Fourth Biennial Conference of the Medieval Central Europe Research Network (MECERN) Online organized by the University of Gdańsk 7–9 April 2021 7 April 2021 (Wednesday) 10.00–10.30 Welcoming Remarks Piotr Stepnowski, Rector, University of Gdańsk Beata Możejko on behalf of the University of Gdańsk’s Organizing Committee Katalin Szende (Central European University, Budapest/Vienna) on behalf of MECERN Arkadiusz Janicki, Dean of the Faculty of History, University of Gdańsk Wojciech Zalewski, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Gdańsk 10.30–11.15 Plenary Lecture 1 Chair: Beata Możejko (University of Gdańsk) Emilia Jamroziak (University of Leeds and Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt), Connections and Disconnection of Monastic Networks in East Central Europe 11.15–11.30 Break 11.30–13.00 Parallel sessions Sessions 1–7 Session1: Social Bonding Chair: Sobiesław Szybkowski (University of Gdańsk) 1. Hana Komárková (University of Opava), Network of Oaths – Urban Life from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era (on the Example of Silesian and Moravian Towns) 2. Grzegorz Myśliwski (University of Warsaw), The Transfer of Sumptuary Laws into and within Central Europe 3. Wojciech Zarosa (Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce), Functions and Meaning of the Oath Ritual in the International Relations of Late Medieval Poland Session 2: Trade Networks Chair: Julia Burkhardt (University of Munich) 1. Dariusz Adamczyk (German Historical Institute, Warsaw), Why Did Trading Networks Collapse? The Case of the Emporium at Janów Pomorski/Truso 2. Katalin Szende (Central European University, Budapest/Vienna), Fair Relations. Marketplaces and the Formation of Cathedral Cities in East Central Europe up to the Thirteenth Century 3. Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz (University of Amsterdam), The Trader and the Emperor: Networks and Conflict Escalation in Late Medieval Northern Europe Session 3: Mendicants and Missions Chair: Anna Adamska (University of Utrecht) 1. Marie-Madeleine de Cevins (University of Rennes), Spiritual Confraternities in Central Europe (c.1250–c.1530): The Key to Successful Cooperation between the Mendicant Friars and the Laity? 2. Paweł Cholewicki (University of Leeds), The Disintegration of the Bosnian Vicariate (1444– 1448): Factors, Course and Consequences 3. Mária Lupescu Makó (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj), One Order – Two Branches. Franciscans in Late Medieval Hungary Session 4: Networking through Fighting Chair: Attila Bárány (University of Debrecen) 1. Benjámin Borbás (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), The Process of Booty Distribution in the Crusades of the Thirteenth Century – Securing and Storing the Spoils of Wars 2. Zoltán Véber (University of Debrecen), The Network of familiares in John Hunyadi’s Service 3. Katarzyna Niemczyk (University of Silesia in Katowice), The Ideology of the Protector of the Christianity in the Politics of Southeastern Poland in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century Session 5: Iconography of the Visual Arts Chair: Zoë Opačić (Birkbeck, University of London) 1. Beata Purc-Stępniak (University of Gdańsk), What Links the Triptych of the Last Judgment by Hans Memling with Florence, Rome, Nuremberg, Breisach and Kraków? 2. Sabina Madgearu (Mihai Eminescu National College, Bucharest), Networks of Faith in Late Medieval Europe: The West and the East 3. Andrzej Woziński (University of Gdańsk), Between Gdańsk and Königsberg. Artistic Relationships in the Field of Late Medieval Sculpture and Painting Session 6: Power and Its Perception Chair: Eduard Mühle (University of Münster) 1. Jakub Izdný (Charles University, Prague), Early Central European State Formation. Empire or Network? 2. Dániel Bagi (University of Pécs), Historiographical Concepts of the Eleventh-century Dynastic Conflicts in Hungary and East Central Europe in the Hungarian Medieval Research of the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Centuries 3. Michał Machalski (Central European University, Budapest/Vienna), Zbigniew’s First Return to Poland and Networks of Loyalty in the Gesta principum Polonorum Session 7: Literary Networks Chair: Farkas Gábor Kiss (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) 1. Levente Seláf (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), A Double Network. Family Ties with and Textual References to Central Europe in Medieval French Romances 2. Pavlína Cermanová (Centre for Medieval Studies Prague), The Movement of Secret Knowledge: Secretum Secretorum and Academic Channels of its Dissemination 3. Zaneta Sambunjak (University of Zadar), Networking, Cooperation and Rivalry in Croatian Medieval Literature in Slavko Ježić’s History of Croatian Literature to the Present (1944) 13.00–14.00 Break 14.00–15.30 Parallel sessions Sessions 8–14 Session 8: Diplomacy and Benefices Chair: Marie-Madeleine de Cevins (University of Rennes) 1. Attila Bárány (University of Debrecen), Crusading Itinerary and Dynastic Network: King Andrew II of Hungary and his System of Alliances from the Outremer to the Balkans 2. Gergely Kiss (University of Pécs), The familia as Network and its Impact on the Policy Regarding Church Benefices and Diplomacy 3. Anna Pobóg-Lenartowicz (University of Opole), The Beginning’s Myth. Historiography as a Tool in the Rivalry of Medieval Silesian Monasteries Session 9: For or against the Pope? Chair: Robert Antonín (University of Ostrava) 1. Gábor Barabás (University of Pécs), Nos tuis supplicationibus inclinati, auctoritate tibi presentium indulgemus: Pope Innocent IV and the Decline of Delegated Jurisdiction in Hungary in the Mid-Thirteenth Century 2. Pavel Soukup (Centre for Medieval Studies, Prague), Preachers of the Hussite Crusade: Authority and Rhetorics in the Anti-Heretical Campaign in Central Europe, 1420–1471 3. Paweł Figurski (Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), Medieval Liturgy and the Making of Polish Political Identity Session 10: Urban Economies: Conflicts and Cooperation Chair: Balázs Nagy (Eötvös Loránd University and Central European University, Budapest/Vienna) 1. Renáta Skorka (Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest), Mine – Networks, Cooperation, Rivalry 2. András Vadas (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), Waters as Sources of Conflicts in Medieval Hungarian Mining Towns 3. Piotr Łozowski (University of Białystok), Together, Separately, or Indifferently? Economic Relations between Elites of Old and New Warsaw in the Late Medieval Period Session 11: Merchants and Trade Chair: Gregor Rohmann (Goethe University, Frankfurt) 1. Ivona Vargek (Central European University, Budapest/Vienna), Networking on the Adriatic: Commercial Contracts between Dubrovnik and Italian Towns in the High Middle Ages 2. Judit Gál (Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest), King Louis I of Hungary’s Economic Policy and its Impact on the Trade of the Dalmatian Towns 3. Leslie Carr-Riegel (Central European University, Budapest/Vienna), A Merchant of Venice in Poland: The Life and Times of Pietro Bicherano 4. Patrycja Szwedo-Kiełczewska, (University of Warsaw), How to Procure Privileges from the King? Deputations, Gifts and Contact Network of the Cities in the Late Middle Ages – The Example of Poznań, Kraków, and Lviv Session 12: Higher Nobility and Gender Relations Chair: Anna Pytasz-Kołodziejczyk (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn) 1. Iurii Zazuliak (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv), Noblewomen and the Historical Tradition of the Polish Conquest of Galicia (Red Ruthenia). Family Alliances, Ethnicity, and the Local Boyar Elite in the Late Fourteenth–Early Fifteenth Centuries 2. Sobiesław Szybkowski, (University of Gdańsk), The Network of Family Connections between the Magnate Elite of Kujawy and the Lands of Łęczyca, Sieradz and Dobrzyń (End of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries) 3. Witold Brzeziński (Casimir the Great University in Bydgoszcz), Marital Alliances of Higher Nobles in Late Medieval Greater Poland. Case Studies Session 13: Diplomatic Networks – Networking Diplomats (I) Chair: Attila Györkös (University of Debrecen) 1. Angelica A. Montanari (University of Cambridge and University of Bologna), The Ritual Expression of Political Rivalry: Henry VII of Luxembourg and the Italian Cities 2. Přemysl Bar (Masaryk University, Brno), The Diplomacy of Sigismund of Luxembourg in the Dispute between the Teutonic Knights and Poland-Lithuania 3. Valentina Šoštarić (University of Zadar), The Social Network of the First Ambassadors of Dubrovnik to the Sublime Porte Session 14: Networking in Church Chair: Beatrix F. Romhányi (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Budapest) 1. Sebastian P. Bartos (Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA), Baronial Oligarchy, Piast Dukes and Episcopal Authority during Wisław of Kościelec’s Tenure in the Bishopric of Kraków (1229–1242) 2. Zofia Wilk-Woś (Social Sciences Academy, Łódź), Between Cooperation and Competition – Ecclesiastical Contacts between Gniezno and Wrocław in the Fifteenth Century? 3. Zsolt Hunyadi (University of Szeged), The General Chapters of the Hospitallers and the Hungarian–Slavonian Priory: Functioning of a Network (Thirteenth–Fifteenth Centuries) 15.30–16.00 Break 16.00–16.45 In memoriam Professor János M. Bak Chair: Emilia Jamroziak (University of Leeds and Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt) Paul W. Knoll (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), “Times of Upheaval” – Tribute to János Bak Plenary lecture of the 2020 János Bak Research Fellowship recipient Mykhaylo Yakubovych (Center for Islamic