The special thematic strand of the 2011 Leeds Medieval Congress was “Poor...Rich”. As usual, many CEU faculty members, former and current students presented papers at various sessions. The keynote lectures were delivered by Samuel K. Cohn Jr., Robin Fleming and Chistopher Dyer. A special session, with the contribution of Gábor Klaniczay discussed the contribution of Michel Mollat to the research of medieval poverty.
Gerhard Jaritz and Gábor Klaniczay organised a series of sessions on “Saints' Cults and Symbolic Identities: Central European Cults of Saints - Local, Regional, National, 'International'” with papers read by former and current CEU students. Judit Majorossy (PhD 2006) was the convenor of six sessions on urban space and society. A very successful round table discussion was called together by Gerhard Jaritz on “Monkeys: Attractive and Repelling - A Round Table Discussion”. He and Alice Choyke organised also two sessions with the title „Proud as a Lion and Humble as a Sparrow?: Animals for the Rich and Animals for the Poor Proud as a Lion and Humble as a Sparrow?: Animals for the Rich and Animals for the Poor”. The CEU bookstall attracted the interest of numerous congress delegates thanks to the growing number of available medievalist publications.
For more information please visit: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2011.html
Balazs Nagy