IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1125: Fragmented Body Politic, I: Bodies of Land and Fragments of Empire
Wednesday 9 July 2014, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
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Organiser: | Victoria Blud, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
Moderator/Chair: | Laura Slater, Department of History of Art, University of York |
Paper 1125-a | Fragmentation, Spoliation, and Innovation: Frederick II and the Imperial Architecture of Puglia (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General, Architecture - Religious, Byzantine Studies |
Paper 1125-b | Landscape, Memory, and Power in Late Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archives and Sources, Daily Life, Historiography - Medieval |
Paper 1125-c | Gloria fallax imperii: Epic and Empire in Northern France in the Later 12th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Literacy and Orality, Mentalities |
Abstract | This interdisciplinary panel considers the medieval afterlife and regeneration of empires, stretching from England and the Angevin empire via Germany and Sicily to the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem, drawing on material, documentary, and literary evidence. The papers will analyse the re-appropriation of imperial trappings and textual relics in Christendom's competing empires from the high to late medieval period, the interaction between memory and physical space and the materiality of imperial memory in widespread spoliation in the fragments of the Roman Empire. |