IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 110: Political Culture in the Latin West, Byzantine, and Islamic Spheres: Righteous Peoples and Errant Outsiders, I
Monday 13 July 2009, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Society for the Medieval Mediterranean |
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Organiser: | Jonathan Shepard, Independent Scholar, Oxford |
Moderator/Chair: | Thomas Brown, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh |
Paper 110-a | New Portraits of Old Adversaries: The Image of Islam in the Hagiography of Maiolus of Cluny (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Monasticism |
Paper 110-b | Religious Belief and Diplomacy in 10th-Century Byzantium: The Correspondence of Patriarch Nicholas I Mystikos (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 110-c | How to Use and Abuse a Greek Monk: Greek Monks in Early 11th-Century Rome (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Monasticism, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 110-d | Hard on Heretics, Light on Latins: The Orthodoxy of Alexios I Komnenos (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy |
Abstract | Our prime concern is with the ways in which the authorities within each sphere defined their orthodoxy in relationship to the beliefs, ideology, and practices of the other spheres, especially in overt antithesis to them. In other words, we shall be considering how far regimes could gain or maintain a reputation for religious orthodoxy and thus political legitimacy through stirring up or leading opposition to the beliefs of 'Latins', 'Greeks', 'Saracens', or other errant outsiders. The one could gain in self-definition and self-righteousness and a kind of self-sealant commonality through identifying and indicting the defects of the other, sometimes to the death. |