IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 614: The Mighty Pen: Presentations of Power in the Middle Ages
Tuesday 15 July 2003, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Matthew Gabriele, Department of Religion & Culture, Virginia Tech |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Jason K. Glenn, Department of History, University of Southern California |
| Paper 614-a | Universal Power / Local Texts: Marian Miracles in 12th-Century Catalonia (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Lay Piety, Mentalities, Monasticism |
| Paper 614-b | Pilgrim to Crusader: Charlemagne and his Journey to Jerusalem (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities, Monasticism |
| Paper 614-c | My Last Duke: The Language of Marriage and Power in the Charters of Matilda of Tuscany (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Gender Studies, Mentalities, Political Thought |
| Abstract | Covering such themes as memory and history, lay piety, and gender studies, these papers seek to examine how figures (in this case, a ruler, a saint, and a countess) are presented as "powerful" during the Middle Ages. Our authors, generally churchmen, tended unsurprisingly to cloak their subjects in an aura of sanctity. Yet, power, for these authors, was not solely spiritual, as these powerful figures are rather deeply embedded in the temporal world and portrayed as participating in the politics and intellectual trends of the day. |