IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 618: Aspects of Rulership in Byzantium, the Islamic World, and the Latin West: The Material Dimension of Power, IV
Tuesday 12 July 2011, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Björn Weiler, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Catherine Holmes, University College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 618-a | How to Buy off a Place in Heaven? (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 618-b | The Last Prophet to Enter Paradise will be Solomon due to his Power, and the Last Companion to Enter Paradise will be 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Awf due to his Wealth': A Look at Perceptions of Governance and Wealth in Early Sufi Literary Sources (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 618-c | Exertion of Episcopal Authority around the Year 1000 in Western Europe: Ciceronian humanitas and the Welfare of the Christian People (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?). |