IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 312: Ideal Political Spaces in Late Middle Ages: The Empire, the Kingdom, and the City
Monday 7 July 2014, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Scriptorium, Laboratório de Estudos Medievais e Ibéricos, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro |
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| Organiser: | Vânia Leite Fróes, Scriptorium, Laboratório de Estudos Medievais e Ibéricos, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro |
| Moderator/Chair: | Lenora Pinto Mendes, Scriptorium, Laboratório de Estudos Medievais e Ibéricos, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro |
| Paper 312-a | The Voice of the Author as autorictas: The Insertion of the City into the Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Political Thought |
| Paper 312-b | España: Alphonso X's Imperial Monarchy (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Political Thought |
| Paper 312-c | Literature and Empire: The Images of Africa in the Portuguese Literary Production of the 15th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Political Thought |
| Abstract | The empire constituted throughout the Middle Ages the great paradigm of political experience, associating itself almost always to an idea of return, almost nostalgic, of Imperial Rome. The Late Middle Ages attends to new proposals, both in effective field of political practices as in the imaginary. Alongside to the notion of empire arise universalist notions of kingdom and the city as a body, integrated suite of offices, comprising an organic nature and concrete social interrelations. The notion of empire, especially in the Iberian Peninsula is also reread and reappropriated in Alphonsine Castile and Portugal of Avis. |