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IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 518: Marginal Empires?: Imperial Practices and Representations on the Borders of Europe, II

Tuesday 8 July 2014, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris (LAMOP - UMR 8589), Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne
Organiser:Fanny Madeline, Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris (LAMOP - UMR 8589), Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne
Moderator/Chair:Geneviève Bührer-Thierry, Laboratoire 'Analyse Comparée des Pouvoirs', Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
Paper 518-aBasileus Anglorum: The Imperial Style of the Late Anglo-Saxon Kings
(Language: English)
Arnaud Lestremau, Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris (LAMOP - UMR 8589), Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne
Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy, Rhetoric
Paper 518-bImperator scottorum: Un Rêve Impossible
(Language: Français)
Olivier Viron, Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris (LAMOP - UMR 8589), Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne
Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy, Rhetoric
Paper 518-cWhat Kind of Imperium Did the Angevin Kings Exert?
(Language: English)
Fanny Madeline, Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris (LAMOP - UMR 8589), Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne
Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy, Rhetoric
Abstract

Besides the orderly and sustainable models of Roman, Carolingian, Ottonian, and Byzantine empires, occasional imperial experiences developed in some areas of medieval Europe. In these two sessions we will address several of these experiments originated in two regions on the borders of the Latin Christendom as well as the Islamic world: Brittany and the Iberian Peninsula. On which historical and symbolic grounds did they rely? What were their lexicological manifestations? How did they create legitimacy? The papers presented will examine these issues and question the marginality of these imperial ideas.