IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 218: Aspects of Rulership in Byzantium, the Islamic World, and the Latin West: The Material Dimension of Power, I
Monday 11 July 2011, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Björn Weiler, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Jonathan Shepard, Independent Scholar, Oxford |
| Paper 218-a | Landholding and Power in the Sawad al-Kufa in the Early Islamic Period (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 218-b | Fiscal Interventionism in the 9th Century: Carolingian Kings and the Management of Royal Estates (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 218-c | The Relationship between Land and Power in Terterid Bulgaria: A Comparative Study of the Appanages of Eltimir and Smilets (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Abstract | These sessions assess the role of wealth and of the material context of power in three broad, overlapping categories of inquiry: the role of wealth in politics, its display both internally (to one's subjects) and externally (to neighbours, peers and distant rulers); the sources of wealth (how did rulers acquire the means to display wealth? Do the sources of wealth tell us something about the political culture of specific spheres); the moral framework of material power (what were the limitations imposed upon both the acquisition and the exercise of material wealth? What were there expectations as to how wealth should be spent?). |