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IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1713: The Visibility of Rulership, III: Cities

Thursday 10 July 2014, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Durham University
Organiser:David Rollason, Department of History, Durham University
Moderator/Chair:Christian Liddy, Department of History, Durham University
Paper 1713-aMaking the 'Invisible' Visible: Spatial Practice and Urban Design in the Reign of King Edward I
(Language: English)
Keith Lilley, School of Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast
Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Historiography - Medieval
Paper 1713-bPortable 'Rulerscape': How to Produce Spaces of Power by Using Relics and Baldaquins in Entry Ceremonies of Rulers in Late Medieval Imperial Cities
(Language: English)
Gerrit Jasper Schenk, Institut für Geschichte, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Index terms: Architecture - Secular, Historiography - Medieval
Paper 1713-cShaping and Reshaping Cities in the Low Countries: The Case of Late Medieval Brussels
(Language: English)
Bram Vannieuwenhuyze, Faculteit Letteren, KU Leuven
Index terms: Architecture - Secular, Historiography - Medieval
Abstract

The aim of this session is to explore the ways in which emperors and kings sought to make their power visible to their subjects through cities, by founding or reshaping them, by the siting of religious institutions and other buildings within them, and by the rituals which they performed in cities, especially those involved with their ceremonial entries. The session ranges widely in order to identify similarities and differences in the significance of cities for the visibility of power across a wide spectrum.