Friday, Sept 8, 2023

14.00h
Opening

14.30–16.00h
Session 1

Christian Vogel (Saarbrücken): From Crusade to Mission / Introduction

Yavor Mitov (Sofia): Lead seals of Byzantine dignitaries of Western origin from the era of the first crusades found in Bulgaria

16.30–18.00h
Session 2

Elias Harth (Saarbrücken): The Crusades with the Tartars

James Wilson (Konstanz): Disentangling medieval Arabic historiography from the “counter-Crusade” framework

Saturday, Sept 9, 2023

09.30–11.00h
Session 3

Angel Nikolov (Sofia): The Fourth Crusade and the Union of the Bulgarian Church with Rome

Roland Marti (Saarbrücken): The Great Schism in orthodox Slavonic literature after the sack of Constantinople

11.30–13.00h
Session 4

Alexander Nikolov (Sofia): The Eastern Christians in the crusaders writings from the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th centuries

Linda Eichenberger (Zürich): Layers of Knowledge, Layers of Space. The Acre Maps of Matthew Paris

14.30–16.00h
Session 5

Nikola Dyulgerov (Sofia): Political and social changes in the southern Greece after the Fourth Crusade

Sevket Kücükhüseyin (Bamberg): Asia minor and the crusades

16.30–18.00h
Session 6

Ivayla Popova (Sofia): The unsuccessful crusade at Varna 1444 and the Balkan societies

Sebastian Kolditz (Heidelberg): Byzantium and the crusades after 1204

18.30h
Final Discussion