IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 1303: Adaptation and Domination: Forms of Legitimation in the Early Middle Ages, II
Wednesday 11 July 2007, 16.30-18.00
| Organisers: | Guido M. Berndt, Institut zur interdisziplinären Erforschung des Mittelalters & seines Nachwirkens, Universität Paderborn Roland Steinacher, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Chris Wickham, All Souls College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1303-a | Ricimer's Church in Rome and the Legitimation of Barbarian Authority (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Byzantine Studies, Numismatics |
| Paper 1303-b | Cross-Check: The Case of the Suani (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought |
| Paper 1303-c | After Lombards Fall: Strategies of Legitimating Power in Early Carolingian Tuscany (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought |
| Abstract | Different forms of legitimising power in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, beginning with the barbarian successor states of the 5th century and up to the realm of Charlemagne, will be observed. In this context the idea of imitatio imperii represents the focus of the first session. Starting from an analysis of the phenomenon of imitatio as a scholarly concept the two following papers will discuss the particular circumstances of it concerning the Vandal and Visigothic kingdoms. The second session offers a cross-check to these concepts by looking at the periphery of the Byzantine territory and opens the theme to a wider range. Altogether, considering the specific conditions by offering different case studies, a comparison of distinctive structures of Barbarian state formations and later power legitimation will be given. |