IMC 2003: Sessions

Session 1516: The Mobility of Power, I

Sponsor:	Department of History, University of Glasgow / School of History and Classics, University of Edinburgh
Organiser:	Stuart Airlie, Department of History, University of Glasgow
Moderator/Chair:	Thomas Brown, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
Paper 1516-a	Roaming Rome: The Capital before Constantinople (Language: English) Roger Rees, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1516-b	King's Move?: Shifting Inauguration Sites in Lotharingia (Language: English) George Hope, School of Humanities (History), University of Glasgow Index terms: Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1516-c	Strange Phoenix: The Making of the Kingdom of Cumbria, 870-1200 (Language: English) Thomas Owen Clancy, School of Humanities (Celtic & Gaelic), University of Glasgow Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract	The concept of the central place, whether as sacred or administrative site, or as inauguration site, is a key element in structures of political authority, but one subject to variation. These papers will consider politics that are poly-centric, that have to cope with 'loss' of key sites, that re-work and re-locate central places to face new circumstances. The comparative perspective (ranging from Byzantium to Scotland) is focused on the early Middle Ages.