CONFERENCE: The Papacy and the Mongolian reigns in the 13th and 14th Centuries (18, 19, 20 July 2023, Wuppertal-Beijing-ONLINE)

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The international conference "The Papacy and the Mongolian Reigns in the 13th and 14th Centuries" intends to investigate the phase of relations between Rome and the Far East which is to be places in the first half of the 14th century, a phase that went beyond the first evangelization of the Mongols and times at the institutionalisation of these relations.

The international conference will take place simultaneously in Wuppertal for the European participants and in Beijing for the participants from China, connected via zoom and will be held, due to time difference, on the mornings of 18, 19 and 20 July 2023.

Information and zoom access: cappuccio@uni-wuppertal.de.

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PROGRAMME

18.07.2023 - Sources

09.00 Johrendt Jochen / Li Wendan: Introduction

09.15 Johrendt Jochen (Bergische Universität Wuppertal): Letters concerning the Mongols in the papal registers

10.15 Alberzoni Maria Pia (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano): The travelogues of the Franciscans in the East

10.45 Andreose Alvise (Università di Udine): Odoric of Pordenone, the Franciscan order and the Papacy

11.45 Li Wendan (Peking University): Historical commentaries on the papal letters concerning the Mongols in the 14th century

12.15 Hautala Roman (Oulu University): Catholic missionary work in the Golden Horde: Factors that contributed to its development

12.45 Discussion

19.07.2023 - Themes and actors of the interaction

09.00 Cappuccio Caterina / Massetti Francesco (Bergische Universität Wuppertal): The Papacy and the Church of Zaytun. Formation and institutionalisation of a Latin diocese in Yuan China

09.45 Concina Chiara Maria (Università di Verona): "aperiatur via... apta nunciis sepe mittendis". The corrispondence between the pope Benedict XII and the Alans in the context of the East-West relations

11.00 Bueno Irene (Università di Bologna): “De societate Christianorum ac Tatarum”: Armenian and Mongols in the diplomatic schemes of the Avignon popes.

11.30 Chen Chunxiao (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences): Byzantine wives of the Mongol Khans

12.00 Musarra Antonio (Sapienza, Università di Roma): Genöse and Venetian merchants in the Far East

12.30 Discussion

20.07.2023 - Perception in the Far East

09.00 Dang Bahoai (Peking University): Two problems related with China mission of Pope Clement V

09.30 Ma Xiaolin (Nankai University): Chinese sources concerning the letters of Toghon Temür and the Alans to Pope Benedict XII

11.00 Qiu Zhirong (Renmin University of China): Some Mongolian terms in Odorico da Pordenone's Relations

11.30 Qiu Yihao (Fudan University): An unknown papal mission in 1312?

12.00 Fujisaki Mamoru (University of Tokyo): Explaining the Christian faith in the papal letters to the Mongols

12.30 Discussion and concluding remarks

More information can be found here.