Strategies, Dispositions and Resources of Social Resilience : A Dialogue Between Medieval Studies and Sociology

The concept of resilience, which originally emerged in psychology, has spread to numerous disciplines and was further developed particularly in social ecology. Resilience experiences an ongoing growing reception in the humanities and historical and social sciences as well, including heterogenic approaches on how to conceptually frame resilience. Common to these approaches is, that resilience becomes topical in the context of analysing phenomena and processes of the ‘resistibility’ of certain (socio-historical) units or actors which are perceived as being faced with various constellations of disruptive change. In this context, resilience is not only taken to mean the opposite of vulnerability, but at the same time, resilience and vulnerability are understood as complementary concepts. From this perspective, vulnerability is a necessary condition of resilience and vice versa. Against this background, the present volume provides a preliminary appraisal of socio-scientific and historical resilience research by assembling contributions of authors originating from different disciplines. Thus, it fosters an interdisciplinary discussion on the theoretical and analytical potentials as well as the empirical applicability of the concept of resilience. Contents Strategies, Dispositions and Resources – Theoretical contributions • Medieval case studies • Reflections and General Comments The Editors Dr. Martin Endreß is Professor for General Sociology at the University of Trier. Dr. Lukas Clemens is Professor for Medieval History at the University of Trier. Dr. Benjamin Rampp is research assistant for General Sociology at the University of Trier. Front Matter ....Pages I-VII Introduction (Martin Endreß, Lukas Clemens, Benjamin Rampp)....Pages 1-10 Front Matter ....Pages 11-11 Mapping Resilience Theory: A Metatheoretical Exploration (Mark G. Edwards)....Pages 13-42 Strategies, Dispositions and Resources as Socio-Historical Constructions (Martin Endreß)....Pages 43-57 Strategies, Dispositions and Resources in Multi-Level Resilience Processes (Benjamin Rampp)....Pages 59-79 Front Matter ....Pages 81-81 Resources and Strategies of New Rulers: Early Angevin Rule in Southern Italy (1266 – 1309) (Lukas Clemens)....Pages 83-93 Resilience as a Perspective on Medieval Literature: Political Songs and the First Margrave War (1449/50) (Beatrice von Lüpke)....Pages 95-119 Disruptive Environmental Change and Resilience: The German South-West in the Later Middle Ages (Peter Rückert)....Pages 121-137 More Resilient with Mars or Mary? (Gerrit Jasper Schenk)....Pages 139-162 How to Make an Enterprise Resilient: Methodological Questions and Evidence from the Past (Markus A. Denzel)....Pages 163-182 Fractured History: Jewish Sources and Narratives of the Plague and of the Black Death Persecutions (Julia Itin)....Pages 183-198 Medieval Swedish Provincial Laws as Example of Resilience? (Heikki Pihlajamäki)....Pages 201-217 Tipping the Scales of Justice: Roman Law as a Resource in Medieval Legal Discourse (Thomas Rüfner)....Pages 219-229 Picking up the Pieces (Christoph Cluse)....Pages 231-251 Resilience in Historical Disaster Studies: Pitfalls and Opportunities (Tim Soens)....Pages 253-274 Front Matter ....Pages 275-275 Resilience – Potentials and Challenges of an Interdisciplinary Perspective (Bo Tackenberg, Tim Lukas)....Pages 277-283 Towards a Resilience Theory that Embraces a Broad Temporal and Scalar Perspective (Thorsten Schilling)....Pages 285-288 Resilience as Process and Narration (Oliver Ibert)....Pages 289-296 Back Matter ....Pages 297-305 The concept of resilience, which originally emerged in psychology, has spread to numerous disciplines and was further developed particularly in social ecology. Resilience experiences an ongoing growing reception in the humanities and historical and social sciences as well, including heterogenic approaches on how to conceptually frame resilience. Common to these approaches is, that resilience becomes topical in the context of analysing phenomena and processes of the 'resistibility of certain (socio-historical) units or actors which are perceived as being faced with various constellations of disruptive change. In this context, resilience is not only taken to mean the opposite of vulnerability, but at the same time, resilience and vulnerability are understood as complementary concepts. From this perspective, vulnerability is a necessary condition of resilience and vice versa. Against this background, the present volume provides a preliminary appraisal of socio-scientific and historical resilience research by assembling contributions of authors originating from different disciplines. Thus, it fosters an interdisciplinary discussion on the theoretical and analytical potentials as well as the empirical applicability of the concept of resilience. Contents " Strategies, Dispositions and Resources of Resilience " Social Theory and Metatheory " Medieval Case Studies " Reflections and General Comments. The Editors Dr. Martin Endreß is Professor for General Sociology at the University of Trier. Dr. Lukas Clemens is Professor for Medieval History at the University of Trier. Dr. Benjamin Rampp is research assistant for General Sociology at the University of Trier