IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 516: European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop: Power and Authority in the Middle Ages
Tuesday 15 July 2003, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | ESF Workshop Group |
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Organiser: | Michael Staunton, School of History, University College Dublin |
Moderator/Chair: | Hugh Kennedy, Department of Mediaeval History, University of St Andrews |
Paper 516-a | Competing for Social Resources: The Social Impact of Processes of Political Legitimation in Central Medieval Castile (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Spanish/Portuguese, Political Thought, Social History |
Paper 516-b | Legitimising Ecclesiastical Resistance to Royal Authority: Thomas Becket and Henry II (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Political Thought |
Paper 516-c | Power to Take and Authority to Hold: Defining and Describing Grand Ducal Rule in Late Medieval Lithuania (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Language and Literature - Latin, Language and Literature - Slavic, Political Thought |
Abstract | This session addresses the subject of the legitimation of power and authority in medieval Europe. It follows on from a European Science Foundation exploratory workshop which sought to compare different approaches to the theme of power, authority and legitimation and to suggest routes of further investigation. Here these issues will be addressed by focusing on three spheres of authority - royal, ecclesiastical and ducal - in Spain, England and Lithuania respectively. |