IMC 2007: Sessions

Session 802: Networks of Power, Influence, and Information in the High Middle Ages

Tuesday 10 July 2007, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:	British Academy Network for 'Medieval Friendship Networks'
Organiser:	Emilia Jamroziak, Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (FOVOG), Technische Universität Dresden / Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds
Moderator/Chair:	Emilia Jamroziak, Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (FOVOG), Technische Universität Dresden / Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds
Paper 802-a	Networks, Changing Political Influence, and the Codification of Christian Laws in Norway, c. 1000-1270 (Language: English) Anne Irene Riisøy, Institutt for Arkeologi, Bevaring og Historie, Universitetet i Oslo Index terms: Law, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History
Paper 802-b	Representations of Royal Friendship in Anglo-Norman England (Language: English) Rebecca Slitt, Department of History, Fordham University Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Latin, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 802-c	Patterns of Connections between England and Hungary in the 13th Century (Language: English) Zsuzsanna Papp Reed, Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery / Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Index terms: Mentalities, Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract	This session brings together a number of issues that are connected to medieval networks of political power and their manifestations in written sources, the rhetoric of such connections (on the examples of Norway and Anglo-Norman England) and networks of information connecting seemingly distant areas (on the example of Hungary and England).