IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 1503: Power and Protection, I: Kingship and Protection
Thursday 12 July 2007, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of Durham |
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Organiser: | David Rollason, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Durham University |
Moderator/Chair: | Christian Liddy, Department of History, Durham University |
Paper 1503-a | Royal Power and Public Protection in Aquitaine and Gascony in c. 1000 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 1503-b | Royal Mercy and Political Debate in 14th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 1503-c | Protection and the Exercise of Lordship (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Politics and Diplomacy |
Abstract | One of a series of sessions exploring protection in the theory of lordship; in the processes of feud and their legal regulation; in royal powers from the protection of widows and wardships to the granting of charters of immunity; and in the ideology of the Christian Church. This session explores the role of ideas of protection in royal power in the offering of specific protections as an obligation of good kingship; in the relationship of the ideals of royal protection and royal mercy, and the concepts of protection, immunities, and the delegation of royal and lordly power. |