IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 302: The Image of the King in Medieval France, II
Monday 10 July 2006, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | International Medieval Society, Paris |
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| Organiser: | Xavier Dectot, Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris |
| Moderator/Chair: | Danielle V. Johnson, Wells College Junior Year Abroad Programme, Paris |
| Paper 302-a | The Bounds of Kingship and the Urban Program of Philip Augustus in Paris (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Art History - General, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 302-b | Urbanisme et affirmation du pouvoir royal: les bastides du Rouergue (Language: Français) Index terms: Architecture - General, Art History - General, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 302-c | Complementing the King's Image: Marie de Brabant as Queen of France and Carolingian Princess (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Mentalities, Social History |
| Abstract | Along with the expansion of the king's territory in France, the royal power felt the necessity to show itself as the main source of legitimacy, be it political or religious. At the same time, other institutions used the royal image to ascertain their own power, sometimes as an opposition to the established kings. The aim of these two sessions will be to examine how the image of the king in the visual arts, architecture, and urbanism, was used, or not, as a means of giving an historical or religious legitimacy to its patron, in the centre as well as in the periphery of the kingdom. |