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Full Conference Programme

Please note that the programme is currently provisional, and may be subject to changes.

Thursday 24th September

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Session

09:00

10:00

Room 1 - Welcome and Registration

10:00

10:30

Room 1 - Introductory Session: Jonathan Phillips (Royal Holloway University of London, SSCLE) - "The Medieval Papacy and the Crusades"

10:30

12:30

Room 1 - Pope Innocent IV in History:
Alberto Melloni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia/Fondazione delle Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII) - "Why forgotten, why unforgettable: questions around magister Sinibaldus"
David D'Avray (University of London) - "Beyond the Moralising Grand Narrative of Medieval Papal History: Innocent IV"
Barbara Bombi (University of Kent) - "Innocent IV and the rhetoric of legates as 'angels of peace'" 

13:00

14:00

 Lunch Break

14:00

16:00

Room 1 - The Two Powers:
Collette Firestone (Royal Holloway University of London) - "Facing the son of Jupiter: examining the relationship between Papacy and Empire"
David Kraus (Universität Marburg) - "Crusading in support of the 'anti'-kings? Preaching the Cross North of the Alps against the Hohenstaufens"
Jessalyn Lea Bird (Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame University) - "Innocent IV and Political Crusades in Italy: The Problem of Ezzelino da Romano (Online)

16:00

 Tea and Coffee Break

16:30

18:00

Room 1 - The Crusade and the Holy Land
Cecilia Gaposchkin (Dartmouth College) and Christoph T. Maier (University of Zurich) - "The Failure of 1250 - Innocent IV's reaction to Mansurah (Online)
Xavier Helary (Université Paris-Sorbonne) - "Innocent and the Capetian Princes"

Peter Edbury (Cardiff University) - "Innocent IV: nepotism in the Latin East" 

Friday 25th September

Start
End
Session

09:00

10:30

Room 1 - Crusading in Europe I 
Damian Smith (Saint Louis University) - "Innocent IV, the Crusades and the Iberian Peninsula"
Ramón Santonja Alarcón (Independent Researcher) - "A Crusader King Reassessed: James I of Aragon and Innocent IV"
Alessandro Scalone (Royal Holloway University of London/Institute of Historical Research) - "The First Council of Lyon and the Reconfiguration of the Negotium Crucis" 

10:30

Tea and Coffee Break

11:00

13:00

Room 1 - Crusading in Europe II
Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt (Aalborg University) - "Innocent IV and the crusades in the Baltic Region"
Zsolt Hunyadi (University of Szeged) - "Contra Dei adversarios et hostes crucis Christi: Innocent IV, Central Europe and the military religious orders"
Grzegorz Pac (University of Warsaw) - "The canonisation of St Stanislaus of Kraków and the missions and crusades of Innocent IV"

13:00

14:00

Lunch Break

14:00

16:00

Room 1 - The Pope and his Curia
Alexis Charansonnet (Université Lumière Lyon 2) - "Between Pope, Emperor, and King: Odo of Châteauroux as Cardinal, Crusader, and Legate under Innocent IV"
Juan Jose Lopez Haddad (The Johns Hopkins University) - "Eudes de Châteauroux and His Influence in Innocent IV’s Curia and Beyond"
Cheryl Midson (University of Reading) - "The Dominican Order and Papal Interests in and Around the Latin East"
Andrea Mancini (University of Leeds) - "Reframing Innocent IV’s Mongol Mission: The Historia Mongalorum in an English Franciscan Compilation (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. lat. misc. C. 75)"

16:00

Tea and Coffee Break

16:30

18:30

Room 1 - A Church's Unity: Schismatics and Heretics
Nikolaos G. Chrissis (University of Athens) – "Innocent IV and the Greek East"

Jean-Paul Rehr (Università di Torino) - "Innocent IV and the Transformation of the Crusade against Heresy"

Alexander Marx (Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences) - "Illuminating the Nexus between Crusading and Anti-Judaism: Deploying the Roman Conquest of Jerusalem (70 CE) after the Talmud Disputations"

Thomas Girard (Paris-Sorbonne) - "Innocent IV and the causa fidei"

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Final Remarks - Andrew Jotischky (Royal Holloway University of London)

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