Conflict after Compromise: Regulating Tensions in Multi-confessional Societies in the Fifteenth Century

0548083 - FLÚ 2022 RIV eng U - Conference, Workshop Arrangement
Žůrek, Václav - Novotný, Robert - Coufal, Dušan
Conflict after Compromise: Regulating Tensions in Multi-confessional Societies in the Fifteenth Century.
[Prague, 11.11.2021-12.11.2021, (K-WRD 16/9)]
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GX19-28415X
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : interconfessional conflict * Hussitism * Christianity * Islam * orthodoxy
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

The conference deals with persisting controversies and tensions in those medieval societies that overcame a major conflict, typically (but not exclusively) war. It focuses especially on regions with bi-confessional or multi-confessional populations. Our inquiry is informed by the situation in Bohemia and Moravia after the Hussite wars in 1436, where a truce between the Hussites and the Basel Council (the so-called Compactata) was reached to secure inter-faith co-existence, both within the Czech lands and in international relations. Although based on written treaties with Emperor Sigismund as well as with the Council, this co-existence involved a number of unanswered questions which call for deeper investigation. Yet the central challenge of inter-faith convivencia is one which was faced by societies throughout contemporary Christendom (especially at its disputed boundaries in the Balkans, the Baltic, and in Iberia) and beyond (Ottoman lands), and thus we believe that the comparative method would help examine and enrich research traditionally bound to specific discursive and national contexts.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0324229