IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1119: Meeting Empires: Fringes of Empires - From the Eastern Mediterranean to China in the Late Middle Ages
Wednesday 9 July 2014, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Georg Christ, School of Arts, Languages & Cultures, University of Manchester |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Stefan Burkhardt, Akademie der Wissenschaften, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg |
| Paper 1119-a | Venitian Politics in the Late Medieval Eastern Mediterranean: Tradingpost Empire, Colonial Interests, or Great Power Politics? (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Byzantine Studies, Crusades, Historiography - Medieval |
| Paper 1119-b | The Venetian Empire: An Historiographical Construct? (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | In the late medieval period, empires - each of them claiming universal power - met and had to cope with the obvious fact that there was the 'other', that is the other empire. How did empires handle this challenge? We will explore aspects of a multi-imperial political system in the Eastern Mediterranean as well as in China focussing on the relationship between empires and strategies to harmonise universal claim and necessity to pragmatically deal with the other not least because trans-imperial trade should not be disturbed. |