IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 1125: Rulership in the Latin West, the Byzantine Commonwealth, and the Islamic World: Counsel and Advice, VI
Wednesday 12 July 2006, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Majestas: Association for the Study of Rulership / British Academy Network 'Political Culture in Comparison' |
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| Organisers: | Jonathan Shepard, Independent Scholar, Oxford Jo Van Steenbergen, School of History, University of St Andrews Björn Weiler, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Edward Peters, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania |
| Paper 1125-a | Counselling the Prince: Advice and Counsel in 13th-Century Welsh Society (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1125-b | Advice and Counsel in 13th-Century Scandinavia (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1125-c | Het'um of Gorigos and his Counsel (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | The geographical sweep of the papers will include the western Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic worlds, and the aim will be to explore how historians with geographically, culturally, and chronologically divergent interests tackle comparable questions and phenomena. We aim both to foster an exchange of ideas and methodological approaches, and also to define more clearly the differences as well as the parallels between the various political communities around the Mediterranean, and in Northern and Eastern Europe. The themes in the papers will include spiritual advice, counsellors and advisors at court, rulers and their subjects, good and bad counsellors, and criticism and loyalty. |