ORIGINES ET MUTATIONES VI – Altar and Throne

We invite to submit entries to participate in the 6th edition of "Origines et Mutationes" conference organised by the Faculty of History at the University of Gdańsk and the town of Pruszcz Gdański.

The conference will take place between 13-14 June 2019.
This year we are going to focus on the the phenomenon of power and religion in history. Both of these factors were inextricably linked to the times of the French Revolution. The aim of our conference is to discuss their mutual relations: political, economic, legal and social. Also important is the influence of Church (churches) representatives on secular authority and vice versa. We are not limited only to the highest representatives of secular and religious power, but also to relations at lower levels that were no less interesting.

Suggested topics:
1. Political factors and Christianization
2. Political relations between the authorities and Churches, the influence of the clergy on lay rulers – conflicts and cooperation, use of religion to implement political plans (ideology of power), sacralization of political power
3. Economic relationships between secular and spiritual power
4. Legal relations of the Church's institutions with political power
5. Bishops, orders, monasteries and political power
6. Reformation (Counter-Reformation) and its influence on the phenomenon of religion and power
7. Power and secularization processes

Papers will be divided into themed panels, among which we plan to have a panel on local history, focused particularly on the situation in the antiquity and the early Middle Ages.

Conference fee: 150PLN (fee includes lunches and coffee breaks, conference materials and subsequent publication, does NOT include accommodation)

The deadline for submitting applications: 17th Februar 2019

To apply send the title and the abstract of your paper (about 1000 charakters) at baltic.conf@gmail.com