IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 118: Rules and Rulership in Medieval Central Europe
Monday 9 July 2012, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University College London |
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Organiser: | Martyn Rady, School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University College London |
Moderator/Chair: | Paul Knoll, Department of History, University of Southern California |
Paper 118-a | Did Hungary Have An Elective Monarchy? (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Political Thought |
Paper 118-b | The Logic of Medieval Politics: Some Examples from Piast Poland (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Slavic, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 118-c | Ruling a New Country: The Arrival of the Luxemburgians in Bohemia and Hungary (Language: English) Index terms: Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
Abstract | The purpose of this panel is to test the adage of Cosmas of Prague that 'the law has a nose of wax and the king has a long iron hand', by investigating the relationship between the customary law of the Middle Ages, royal power and dynastic succession in later medieval Bohemia, Hungary and Poland. |