IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 517: Friendship and Power, I: Friendship and the Exercise of Authority
Tuesday 15 July 2003, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | AHRB Centre for Byzantine Cultural History / Medieval Friendship Conference, The Queen's University, Belfast, 2004 |
|---|---|
| Organisers: | Julian P. Haseldine, Department of History, University of Hull Margaret E. Mullett, Institute of Byzantine Studies, Queen's University, Belfast / AHRC Centre for Byzantine Cultural History |
| Moderator/Chair: | Julian P. Haseldine, Department of History, University of Hull |
| Paper 517-a | Friendship and Peacemaking - The Bishop as Ideal Mediator: Amicable Settlement in 11th- and 12th-Century Denmark (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Law, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 517-b | The End of Friendship: Icelandic Politics c. 1250-1320 (Language: English) Index terms: Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 517-c | Authority, Subordination and the Power of Friendship in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This is one of four planned sessions exploring the theme of power and authority in relation to friendship in the light of the recent proliferation of research in this area. This first session focuses on the overtly political or instrumental applications of friendship in a variety of contexts, ecclesiastical and lay. The session will examine the role of friendship in both the maintainance of order, through peacemaking, and the expansion of power, and will explore the complex relationship between the profession of equality in the language of frienship and the imposition of authority which it could be manipulated to effect. |