The Institute for Medieval Studies (IEM) promotes the organization of the International Meeting “Ecclesia in Chronicis: The geopolitics of ecclesiastics through the chronicles in the context of the Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453)”, which will take place on September 11, 2017, at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the New University of Lisbon (NOVA FCSH).

This meeting aims to create a space for debate where the role of the Clergy, as a differentiated social group, in the geopolitical and diplomatic relations of medieval Europe, as reflected in the relevant peninsular and European chronicles, during the period of the Hundred Years’ War and the Great Schism, can be deepened.

The structure of the meeting is that of a “colloquium-roundtable”, lasting one day, during which two round tables with three speakers and one discussant will take place. The first roundtable aims to analyze the role of the Church – both as a whole and in regional specificities – in peninsular and European geopolitics during the Hundred Years’ War period; the second roundtable will observe the types of political discourse in historiographical narrative, referred to the Church and ecclesiastics, through the analysis of the main chronicles of each peninsular Christian kingdom.

Organisation: IEM-NOVA FCSH
Organiser: Francísco José Díaz Marcilla