IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 814: Networks & Neighbours, IV: Tracing Aristocratic Networks in Three Early Medieval Kingdoms
Tuesday 7 July 2015, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Networks & Neighbours |
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| Organiser: | Otávio Luiz Vieira Pinto, School of History, University of Leeds / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) |
| Moderator/Chair: | Otávio Luiz Vieira Pinto, School of History, University of Leeds / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) |
| Paper 814-a | Searching for the Visigothic State: Monarchy and Aristocracy in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 814-b | Merovingian Testaments and Power Relations in the Transference of Goods (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Genealogy and Prosopography, Mentalities, Political Thought |
| Paper 814-c | Northumbrian Aristocracy through the Archaeological Evidence (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Mentalities, Political Thought |
| Abstract | This session explores the relationships and interactions which sustained and (trans)formed the early medieval aristocracy. Paulo Pachá frames Visigothic society in terms of relations of personal dependence, developing a structural characterization of the aristocracy as a whole (lay and ecclesiastical) and its relations with the monarchical power. Karen Torres da Rosa explores the intricacies of aristocratic social and familial networks in the Merovingian Gaul, through a close reading of the surviving testaments. Renato Rodrigues da Silva considers recent developments in the settlement and burial archaeology of early medieval Northumbria, as a means of developing a clearer understanding of the activities and relations of the Northumbrian elite. |