IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 316: Staufen and Plantagenets: Two Empires in Comparison, III - Images and Ideas

Sponsor:	Haskins Society
Organiser:	Alheydis Plassmann, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Moderator/Chair:	Björn Weiler, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University
Paper 316-a	The King and His Image: Coins and Seals (Language: English) Andrea Stieldorf, Historische Grundwissenschaften, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg Index terms: Administration, Charters and Diplomatics
Paper 316-b	Promoting Noble Ideas in the German and Angevin Empire (Language: English) Max Lieberman, Historisches Seminar, Universität Zürich Index terms: Mentalities, Political Thought
Paper 316-c	Plantagenet and Staufen Images of Kingship (Language: English) Johanna Dale, Department of German & Dutch, University of Cambridge Index terms: Liturgy, Mentalities, Political Thought
Abstract	The third session will investigate how the ideas and expectations of the ruler and the nobility were used to help promulgate and define concepts of legitimate rule. In this context, it was not only visual images that mattered, but also the kind of notions invoked. Were different ideas, for instance, put forth in the presence or absence of the ruler? We will similarly be concerned not only with ideals of kingship, but also those relating to vassalage and knighthood, which could define and strengthen the bond between the king and his princes just as effectively as idealisations of the monarch.