IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 206: The Idea of Empire between Bulgaria, Constantinople, and the West
Monday 7 July 2014, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | SEEM-NET (South-Eastern European Medievalists Network) |
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| Organiser: | Francesco Dall'Aglio, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici, Napoli |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jonathan Shepard, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford |
| Paper 206-a | Between Earth and Heaven: Byzantine Imperial Ideology in the Homily On the Treaty with the Bulgarians (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 206-b | Imagining a New Empire: Bulgaria and the Latins of Constantinople, 1204-1241 (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Crusades, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 206-c | How to Become Tsar in Late Medieval Bulgaria: Electoral Politics and Norms of Succession, c. 1257-1331 (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | During the course of its history, Bulgaria came into close contact not only with the Byzantine world, to which it is often and hastily ascribed, but with Western Europe as well. Influenced by political and ideological theories and practices that belonged to both areas, the Bulgarian kingdom developed some original concepts of royal and imperial power, at times considering itself a legitimate pretender to the imperial title. The session will focus on Bulgarian relations with Byzantium, with the Latin Empire of Constantinople, and with Western Europe, especially Germany, and will highlight both the original and derivative features of its political ideology. |