IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 116: Staufen and Plantagenets: Two Empires in Comparison, I - Strategies of Ruling
Monday 7 July 2014, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Haskins Society |
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| Organiser: | Alheydis Plassmann, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn |
| Moderator/Chair: | Matthew J. Strickland, School of Humanities (History), University of Glasgow |
| Paper 116-a | What is an Empire? (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Political Thought |
| Paper 116-b | Crossing the Alps and Crossing the Channel: Political Culture in the Hohenstaufen and the Angevin Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Political Thought |
| Paper 116-c | Marrying an Heiress: Strategies of Appropriating Lordships Acquired by Marriage – The Case of Burgundy and Aquitaine (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Charters and Diplomatics |
| Abstract | While the Staufen and the Plantagenets have long been of interest to German and English historians respectively, a comparative perspective has rarely been adopted. It would, however, allow for several new takes on seemingly familiar topics. The first session will focus on the notion of empire and the difficulties of ruling a vast 'Empire'. What strategies were adopted to handle the problems of ruling provinces far away or recently acquired? How did rulers deal with the fact, that people in different parts of the 'Empire' might have had different ideas about how law and lordship were to be managed? |