IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 712: Political Culture in the Latin West, Byzantine, and Islamic Spheres: Travelling Rulers and Exploring Subjects, III
Tuesday 13 July 2010, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Society for the Medieval Mediterranean |
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| Organiser: | Jo Van Steenbergen, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, Universiteit Gent |
| Moderator/Chair: | Björn Weiler, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University |
| Paper 712-a | The Travels of John V Palaiologos (14th Century) (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 712-b | The Advantages of Virtual Travel: Illustrating Henry VII's Expedition to Rome (1310-1313) (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - German, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 712-c | Dangerous Journeys: A Comparative Analysis of Abbasid and Saljuq Sovereignty (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| 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. |