IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 716: Power Relations in Medieval Portugal: Conflict and Collaboration
Tuesday 15 July 2003, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Universidade Aberta |
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| Organiser: | Adelaide Millán da Costa, Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Moderator/Chair: | Manuela Santos Silva, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa |
| Paper 716-a | Church and King (12th-13th Centuries): A Reassessment (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 716-b | Crown and Town (14th-15th Centuries): Common Aims and Antagonisms (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Local History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 716-c | The King and the Lords (13th-15th Centuries): A Confrontation? (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | The aim of this session is to present an updated new perspective on the relations established between the Portuguese 'Crown' and some of the more relevant social groups functioning in Medieval Portugal between the 12th and the 15th centuries. Throughout the centuries under analysis, the monarchy was trying to establish a growing dominion over the Realm and its subjects, but that effort had to be done against the designs, interests and strategies of the other "powers", such as the Church, The Cities, the Lords and the Ethnic Minorities. The basic goal of this session is to enhance the ways through which that balance was successively negotiated through alliances and confrontation and how they managed to overrule each other. |