The Italian Cultural Institute and the Centre d’études médiévales de l’Université de Montréal, within the series of conferences dedicated to the topic “Francesco e al-Malik, 800 anni dopo. L’incontro tra Francesco d’Assisi e il sultano al-Malik al-Kamil (1219)”, (September 17, 2018 – December 10, 2019), are pleased to present the conference by professor Franco Cardini “Guerre et croisade”, “La peste au Moyen Âge: la Mort Noire de 1347-1352, le témoignage du Décaméron de Giovanni Boccaccio et les autres sources” and “À propos de la ‘culture de la guerre’: Bernard de Clairvaux, les Templiers et le Liber de laude novae militiae”.
“Guerre et croisade”
Monday October 28 2019, 4.30pm
Centre d’études médiévales, Université de Montréal
Carrefour des arts et de sciences, sala C-3061
Pavillon Lionel-Groulx
3150, rue Jean Brillan, Montreal
Conference in French
“La peste au Moyen Âge: la Mort Noire de 1347-1352, le témoignage du Décaméron de Giovanni Boccaccio et les autres sources”
Tuesday October 29, 2019, 1pm
Centre d’études médiévales, Université de Montréal
Carrefour des arts et de sciences, sala S-144
Pavillon Roger-Gaudry
2900 Edouard Montpetit, Montreal
Conference in French
“À propos de la ‘culture de la guerre’: Bernard de Clairvaux, les Templiers et le Liber de laude novae militiae”
Wednesday October 30, 2019, 4pm
Centre d’études médiévales, Université de Montréal
Carrefour des arts et de sciences, sala C-2014
Pavillon Lionel-Groulx
3150, rue Jean Brillan, Montreal
Conference in French
The meeting between Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt took place eight centuries ago, in 1219. More than celebrating a centenary, the cycle of conferences, conceived by the Italian Cultural Institute and by the Center d’études médiévales of the Université de Montréal, bringing together scholars of various disciplines, all of high profile and international fame, wants to bring the public closer to the meaning of this extraordinary event for contemporaries and posterity.
Franco Cardini, historian of the Middle Ages among the greatest of our time, is, among other things, a keen and prolific scholar of the history of the Crusades, the pilgrimage and the relations between East and West. Among his recent books, we remember at least: In Terrasanta: pellegrini italiani tra Medioevo e prima età moderna (Bologna, Il Mulino, 2002), and Nella presenza del Soldan superba: saggi francescani (Spoleto, CISAM, 2009), Europa e Islam. Storia di un malinteso (Rome-Bari, Laterza, 2018).