IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 318: Aspects of Rulership in Byzantium, the Islamic World, and the Latin West: The Material Dimension of Power, II
Monday 11 July 2011, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Björn Weiler, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Catherine Holmes, University College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 318-a | An Investment in Goodwill: Ransoming the Leaders of the Crusade of Nikopolis (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 318-b | On a Par with Kings?: Roger de Flor and the Financial Background to a Mediterranean Admiral's Power in the Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 318-c | How to Earn a Living at the 'Abbasid Court: The Financial Adventures of Abu Bakr al-Suli (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Language and Literature - Other |
| 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?). |