IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 210: Political Culture in the Latin West, Byzantine, and Islamic Spheres: Righteous Peoples and Errant Outsiders, II
Monday 13 July 2009, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Society for the Medieval Mediterranean |
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| Organiser: | Jonathan Shepard, Independent Scholar, Oxford |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jo Van Steenbergen, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, Universiteit Gent |
| Paper 210-a | Orthodoxy and Religious Otherness in the Byzantine Discourse on the Seljuks during the 11th and 12th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Paper 210-b | Caliphal Conclaves in 12th-Century Baghdad and the Quest for Orthodoxy (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Politics and Diplomacy, Theology |
| Paper 210-c | The Muslims of Sicily between the Fatimid and Norman Rulers (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 210-d | Latins and Georgians in the Crusader Kingdom (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Crusades, Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism |
| 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. |