IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 310: Political Culture in the Latin West, Byzantine, and Islamic Spheres: Righteous Peoples and Errant Outsiders, III
Monday 13 July 2009, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Society for the Medieval Mediterranean |
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| Organiser: | Jonathan Shepard, Independent Scholar, Oxford |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jonathan Shepard, Independent Scholar, Oxford |
| Paper 310-a | Late Byzantine Political Culture and its Intellectual Networks (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Greek, Politics and Diplomacy, Rhetoric |
| Paper 310-b | Perfidious Popes and Pious Pagans: Matthew Paris on Popes, Saracens, and Greeks (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought |
| Paper 310-c | Mission and Martyrdom in the Franciscan Order (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities, Religious Life |
| Paper 310-d | 'This Community and Other Communities': Religious and Communal Boundaries in a 10th-Century Iranian Work of Advice for Kings (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Political Thought |
| 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. |