IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 325: Perspectives on Royal Power, III: The Representation and Ideal of Kingship
Monday 7 July 2008, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Durham University |
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Organiser: | David Rollason, Department of History, Durham University |
Moderator/Chair: | David Rollason, Department of History, Durham University |
Paper 325-a | Political Imposture and the Ideal of Good Kingship (13th-15th centuries) (Language: English) Index terms: Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 325-b | Kings of Merchants, Clerks, and Prostitutes: The 'Other' Kings and the Idea of Kingship in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Political Thought |
Paper 325-c | The Illuminated Reich: Imperial Landscapes and the Presence of Monarchy in Late Medieval Germany (Language: English) Index terms: Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
Abstract | This session, the third in a series exploring the nature of royal power using cross-disciplinary approaches, is devoted to the thesis that the concept of the king as the apex of the social and political hierarchy was deeply entrenched and widely diffused in the Middle Ages, and that it had sometimes unexpected bearing on both the representation and the ideas and ideals of kingship, notably in terms of political imposture and in terms of 'other' kings in the framework of medieval ideas. |