Colloque – Naturalisation and Legitimation of Power (1300-1800). An Attempt at a Comparative History

ATTENTION : En raison de l’épidémie de coronavirus, le colloque est annulé.

2nd-3rd APRIL 2020
Start 1.00 P.M.
Austrian Academy of Science, Seminar Rooms, 1st floor
Hollandstrasse 11–13 1020 Vienna

Participation in the conference is free of charge.
Registration by e-mail before the 23th/03/2020.

Jonathan DUMONT | jonathan.dumont@oeaw.ac.at
Éloïse ADDE |loiseadde@yahoo.fr

Organising Committee :
Éloïse ADDE (Brussels, BE)
Jonathan DUMONT (Vienna, AT)
Michel MARGUE (Luxembourg, LU)
Andreas ZAJIC (Vienna, AT)

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Programme :

Thursday 2nd April

13.00 Welcome coffee
13.30 Welcome speech

Walter POHL | Institut für Mi elalterforschung/ÖAW, AT
Christina LUTTER | Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Wien, AT Andreas ZAJIC | Project leader of the Grey Eminences Project, Wien, AT

13.45-14.00 Introduction – Éloïse ADDE | Brussels, BE Jonathan DUMONT | ÖAW, AT

14.00-15.30 Session 5 – Theology and Social Order
Chair: Cathleen SARTI | Oxford, UK

Jean-Philippe GENET | Paris, FR – Nature’s Role in the Political and Theological Ideas of Giles of Rome
Antoine DESTEMBERG | Arras, FR – Création divine et naturalisation de l’ordre social aux XIIIe-XVe siècles. L’exégèse visuelle et textuelle de la Genèse dans les Bibles moralisées
Coffee break

Session 6
Naturalizing the illegitimates
Chair: Éloïse ADDE | Brussels, BE

Jean-Marie LE GALL | Paris, FR – Les Rencontres princières. Entre identification, légitimation et imposture
François OTSCHAKOVSKY-LAURENS | Paris, FR – Universitas totius civitatis. City Councils as Natural Bodies of Political Decision? Barcelona, Genoa, Marseille at the End of the Middle Ages.
Hans COOLS | Leuven, BE – The Succession Principle in the Dutch Republic. The Quest of Successive Generations of Nassau Princes and Counts for the Stadtholderate as a Hereditary Function

20.00 Official Dinner

Friday 3rd April

8.30 Welcome Coffee

9.00-11.00 Session 7
Dynastic continuity, bloody ties and right to rule
Chair: Andreas ZAJIC | Wien, AT

Jonathan DUMONT | Wien, AT – A European Natural Dynasty. The Redefinition of the Burgundy- Habsburg Princely Ideology in the Beginning of the 16th Century.
Lisa DEMETS | Gent, BE – Gendered Political Ideology in Late Medieval Flanders. Mary of Burgundy as City Maiden in the Chronicles of Flanders
Gilles GENOT | Luxembourg, LU – Durch Abstammung zur Herrschaft legitimiert? Die „natürlichen“ Erben des Herzogtums Luxemburg (15.-16. Jh.)
11.00-11.15 Coffee-Break

11.15-13.15 Session 8.
Naturalness and dynastic states
Chair: Christina LUTTER | Wien, AT

Wim BLOCKMANS | Leiden, NE – Legitimation of Foreign Rulers
Gilles LECUPPRE | Louvain-la-Neuve, BE – Anything but natural? Princely husbands in the Low Countries (13th-15th c.): Acceptation or Distrust?
Klara HÜBNER | Brno, CZ – Hinterfragte Natürlichkeit. Die Transformation königlicher Legitimationsdiskurse im langen Jahrhundert der Abse ungen (ca. 1298-1424) am Beispiel Zentraleuropas
13.15 Goodbye Lunch