IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 223: Examinations of Imperial Image, Ambition, and Authority, I: Central Europe
Monday 7 July 2014, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Royal Studies Network |
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| Organiser: | Kathleen Neal, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Victoria |
| Moderator/Chair: | Daniel Power, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University |
| Paper 223-a | Emperor as Educator: The Influence of Augustan Model of Education and Imperial Image on Medieval Biographies of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 223-b | The Imperial Authority of Salian Empresses in Word and Image (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies |
| Paper 223-c | Rivalry and Ambition in the Tombs of Margaret of Constantinople and Her Descendants (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | These two linked sessions will explore issues of Imperial image, ambition and authority. The papers will draw together these common themes but in different imperial contexts, geographically and temporally, taking in the Angevin Empire, the Carolingian Empire, the Latin Empire built by the Fourth Crusade, and the Holy Roman Empire. This comparative element will enable a deeper engagement with the concept and practice of empire and how these particular rulers attempted to forge an imperial image using Roman models as well as ritual and ceremonial, assert their sometimes contested authority and satisfy their political ambitions. At the end of the second session, Professor Dan Power will act as a respondent and draw together the various themes of the panels and the research presented to reflect on what light they shed on our understanding of medieval empires. |