IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1017: Reassessing the Medieval Western Empire, I: The Absence and Presence of the Empire
Wednesday 9 July 2014, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | German History |
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| Organiser: | Len Scales, Institute of Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Durham University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Chris Jones, Department of History, University of Canterbury, Christchurch |
| Paper 1017-a | A Sculpture of the Emperor: Urban Propaganda in the Holy Roman Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Secular, Mentalities, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1017-b | Diplomatic Contacts between Reich and Kaiser: Sigismund of Luxemburg, Claus Redwitz, and the Case of a Lost Dog (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 1017-c | Imperial Rhetoric and Associative Political Culture in the South-Western Holy Roman Empire, c. 1378-1493 (Language: English) Index terms: Local History, Mentalities, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This session is concerned with the various ways in which, despite the seeming limitations arising from its itinerant monarchy and relatively modest bureaucratic structures, the late-medieval Empire and its rulers were present in the lives and consciousness of inhabitants of its mainly German-speaking core lands. This 'presence' could take a number of forms. Rulers were represented in their absence by monumental works of public art (Gajdosova); they exercised 'remote control' via personal relationships focused on the court (Whelan); and the Empire itself, as idea and symbol, was invoked and applied by political actors in the regions (Hardy). |