IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 718: Aspects of Rulership in Byzantium, the Islamic World, and the Latin West: The Material Dimension of Power, V
Tuesday 12 July 2011, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Björn Weiler, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Björn Weiler, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University |
| Paper 718-a | 'The King of the East and the West (malik al-mashriq wa al-maghrib)': The Seljuk Dynastic Concept and Titles in the Muslim and Christian Sources (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 718-b | Occupation and Appropriation of Space: Examples from the Early Carolingian Period (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 718-c | Spectacles of Power: Visual Culture and Political Power in Venice's Maritime State (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?). |