IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 818: Aspects of Rulership in Byzantium, the Islamic World, and the Latin West: The Material Dimension of Power, VI
Tuesday 12 July 2011, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Björn Weiler, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Jo Van Steenbergen, Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies / Department of Languages & Cultures: The Near East & the Islamic World, Universiteit Gent |
| Paper 818-a | Numismatic Analysis of the 6th/12th Power Politics (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 818-b | Does Money Matter?: How to Obtain a Court Title in Late Byzantium, c. 1260-1350 (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 818-c | Constantinople as City State, 1402-1453 (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 818-d | Nuz et descahuz et a pié: Building and Losing Fortunes in the Latin Empire of Constantinople (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?). |