IMC 2004: Sessions
Session 1611: The Clash of Cultures in the Political Identity of Medieval Europe
Thursday 15 July 2004, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Dwight D. Allman, Department of Political Sciences, Baylor University, Texas |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Cary J. Nederman, Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University, College Station |
| Paper 1611-a | Greek Conceptions of the Imperfect Regimes in Latin Political Philosophy (Language: English) Index terms: Political Thought |
| Paper 1611-b | Politics as a Vocation: The Soul in Medieval European Conceptions of Civic Life (Language: English) Index terms: Political Thought |
| Paper 1611-c | Joachim of Fiore and the Apocalyptic Perception of Islam (Language: English) Index terms: Political Thought |
| Abstract | This panel explores rival cultural influences shaping conceptualizations of political life in medieval Europe. The panel brings together two Americans and a European to examine, in turn, the ways in which Christian apocalyptic perceptions of Islam influenced the political self-conception of Latin Europe (Riedl); a Greek heritage—refracted through the civic-republicanism of Rome and the Latin fathers of Christian theology—of formulating the public vocation of politics in terms of 'caring for the soul' (Allman); and the complex process by which Greek ideas of imperfect constitutions were used and abused by Christian thinkers in Latin Europe from the 8th to 14th centuries (Nederman). |