IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 612: Political Culture in the Latin West, Byzantine, and Islamic Spheres: Travelling Rulers and Exploring Subjects, II
Tuesday 13 July 2010, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Society for the Medieval Mediterranean |
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| Organiser: | Jo Van Steenbergen, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, Universiteit Gent |
| Moderator/Chair: | Andrew P. Roach, School of Humanities (History), University of Glasgow |
| Paper 612-a | Only Beer and Sour Whey: Matthew Paris in Norway (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Middle English |
| Paper 612-b | Dynastic Relics and the Abandonment of Itinerant Rulership: The Byzantine Empire under the Early Palaeologoi (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 612-c | On Royal Pilgrimage and Patronage in 15th-Century Egypt: the Kitab al-Dhahab al-Masbuk by Al-Maqrizi (d. 1442) (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Language and Literature - Other |
| Abstract | As part of the ongoing series of interdisciplinary political culture strands held at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, since 2005, a set of four broadly comparative sessions are presented on the theme of 'travelling rulers and exploring subjects' in the Latin West, the Byzantine commonwealth and the Islamic world. These sessions consider how travel and exploration informed political culture; and how they affected the self-definition, practices, customs, and working assumptions of 'hegemonial' groups in all three spheres. The sessions' prime concern will be with itinerant rulership, elite pilgrimage, and foreign visits, and they will focus primarily on how each of these helped to shape (and re-shape) political culture both at home and abroad. |