IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 525: Rulership in the Latin West, the Byzantine Commonwealth, and the Islamic World: Counsel and Advice, I
Tuesday 11 July 2006, 09.00-10.30
| 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: | Hugh Kennedy, Department of Mediaeval History, University of St Andrews |
| Paper 525-a | Counsels of Caution: Impetuous Emperors and Byzantium's Bulgarian Problem (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval |
| Paper 525-b | The Pious and the Military Advisors of Nur al-Din, 1146-1174: The Sultan of Syria (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 525-c | The Advisory Council of al-Nasir Muhammad (d. 1341): The Life and Times of a Mamluk Institution (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. |