IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 725: Power & Institutions in Medieval Islam & Christendom (PIMIC), III: Power in Practice - Reproducing and Negotiating Medieval Rulership
Tuesday 7 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Power & Institutions in Medieval Islam & Christendom (PIMIC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid |
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| Organiser: | Michel Kaplan, UFR d'histoire, Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne |
| Moderator/Chair: | Hugh Kennedy, Department of the Languages & Cultures of the Near & Middle East, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London |
| Paper 725-a | Power and Protest in Mamluk Syria (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Political Thought |
| Paper 725-b | Spatiality and the Power of Memory: On Kings and Places in Castile, 12th-13th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 725-c | Hierarchies among Equals in 13th-Century Christendom (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Political Thought, Social History |
| Abstract | The papers in this panel examine a variety of power concepts in Medieval Europe and the Middle East and their flexibility in theory and practice. They explore different ways in which the power held by the sultans, kings, chieftains and lords was negotiated. By examining such diverse phenomena as spatiality and the power of memory in 12th- and 13th-century Castile, the principles of constructing 'hierarchies among equals' in 13th-century Christendom and the appropriation of sacred objects and spaces in 13th- and 14th-century Islamic protests, they inquire how far we can go in comparing power across cultures in the medieval world. |