IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1034: Societas, communitas, yconomia: Conceptualising the Political in 12th-Century Latin Europe
Wednesday 6 July 2016, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Societas Latina Daniae |
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| Organiser: | Mia Münster-Swendsen, Institut for Kommunikation og Humanistisk Videnskab, Roskilde Universitet |
| Moderator/Chair: | Michael H. Gelting, Centre for Scandinavian Studies King's College University of Aberdeen 24 High Street OLD ABERDEEN AB24 3EB |
| Paper 1034-a | Public Duties and Personal Connections in Medieval Denmark (Language: English) Index terms: Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 1034-b | A Dwarf on the Shoulders of a Giant: Sven Aggesen and Ciceronian Ideas About Human Society (Language: English) Index terms: Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Philosophy, Political Thought, Rhetoric |
| Paper 1034-c | Distributing Power: Yconomia as a Political and Theological Concept around 1200 (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Political Thought, Theology |
| Abstract | How did medieval thinkers conceive of the social and political order of their society, how did they envisage power structures and principles that should undergird social justice? The three papers in this session aim to re-examine a cluster of ideas and concepts regarding public duty, administrative office, accountability, rights of dispensation, naturalistic conceptions of human society and the theoretical framework concerning the distribution of political power. Together, the papers are based upon the contention, that the 'primitivist' notion of medieval political power as being thoroughly embedded in personal face-to-face relations remains inadequate to explain the complexity of the 'political' in a society consisting of a plurality of powers and societates. |