History

"Holy" wars

Historic days
Wednesday, 05.03. - Friday, 07.03.2025
© St Bartholomew's Day by François Dubois
© St Bartholomew's Day by François Dubois

What is the motivation behind "holy" wars, these at least superficially religious conflicts? We want to look at the interdependencies between questions of faith and other components. To this end, religious conflicts from the Middle Ages to the present day will be analysed. The aim is to show the extent to which questions of faith were simply instrumentalised, contributed to, exacerbated or in some cases were actually constitutive. The aim is also to identify similarities and differences between the specific conflicts.

Cooperation with:

Journal World and Environment of the Bible

Programme of the event:

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Wednesday, 5 March 2025

2.00 pmWelcome and introduction

2.15 pm

The crusade: Holy War - Pilgrimage - Work of Mercy?

Prof. Dr. Stefan TebruckProfessor of Medieval History at Justus Liebig University Giessen

3.00 pm

Heilige oder Gerechte Kriege auf der Iberischen Halbinsel? Die vielen Facetten <br /der (Re-)Conquista

Prof. Dr. Klaus HerbersSenior Professor for
Medieval History at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

3.45 pmCoffee break

4.15 pm

Between war and peace. Ottoman expansion and European crusades
endeavours in the later Middle Ages

PD Dr. Tobias Danielsresearch assistant at the Department of History at LMU Munich

5.00 pm Plenary discussion

5.45 pm Dinner

7.00 pm Eucharistic celebration on Ash Wednesday



Thursday, 6 March 2025

9.00 a.m.

War against invented heretics?
The Albigensian Crusade (1209-1229)

Dr. Markus Krumm, Academic Councillor at the
Historical Seminar of the LMU Munich

9.45 a.m.

Religious division, religious violence and
Crisis of kingship: the French
Religious wars and how to overcome them

Prof. Dr. Lothar SchillingChair of Early Modern History at the University of Augsburg

10.30 a.m.Coffee break

11.00 a.m.

Vom Leben, Vergessen und Sterben der Religion. Konfessioneller Sinnwandel und Sinnverlust im Dreißigjährigen Krieg

Prof. Dr. Franz BrendleAssociate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Tübingen

11.45 a.m.Plenary discussion

12.30 pmMidday prayer

12.45 pmLunch



14.30 bis 15.30 und 16.00 bis 17.15 Uhr

Working groups:

  • Crusades to the Holy Land
  • Iberian Peninsula
  • Turkish crusades
  • Albigensian Crusades
  • French confessional wars
  • Thirty Years' War


5.30 pm
Dinner

7.00 pm

Holy or secular wars? The wars against the Ottomans in the 16th century

Prof. Dr. Marina MünklerProfessorship for Elderly and
Early Modern Literature and Culture at the TU Dresden

7.45 pmDiscussion

Friday, 7 March 2025

8.45 a.m.Lauds

9.00 a.m.

"Holy" war in ancient Egypt - to
Royal ideology, judgement of the gods and
Displays of power in the pharaonic era

Prof. Dr. Julia BudkaUniversity Professor for
Egyptian Archaeology and Art History at
of the LMU Munich



9.45 a.m.

The importance of religion in
the justification of war
in ancient Assyria

Dr. Mary FrazerAcademic Counsellor at the Department of History at LMU Munich

10.30 a.m.Coffee break

11.00 a.m.Plenary discussion

11.45 a.m.

Between glorification and warning.
Holy wars in film

Prof. Dr. Reinhold ZwickProfessor emeritus of Catholic Theology and its Didactics at the University of Münster

12.45 pmLunch

2.30 pm

Suffer and fight - because it is God's will. Catholic clergy in the First World War

Dr. Annette Jantzen, theologian, Aachen

3.15 pm

The role of religion in current wars

Prof. Dr. Markus VogtProfessor of Social Ethics at
of the LMU Munich

4.00 pmCoffee break

4.30 pm

Closing panel: "Holy" wars and
no end?


5.30 pmDinner - end of the event

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