IMC 2016: Sessions

Session 1527: Celebrating Excess?: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Court, Consumption, and Authority, I - Patronage and Virtue

Organisers:	Geoffrey Humble, Department of History, University of Birmingham Sami Kalliosaari, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Moderator/Chair:	Geoffrey Humble, Department of History, University of Birmingham
Paper 1527-a	Wise Objects?: Luxury Production and Royal Patronage Promoting the Ideology of Wisdom in the Court of Alfred the Great (Language: English) Sami Kalliosaari, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought, Religious Life
Paper 1527-b	Between the 'Moderation' and the 'Excess': 'Eating' and 'Drinking' in Don Juan Manuel de Castilla (Language: English) Federico Javier Asiss González, Departamento de Historia, Universidad Nacional de San Juan Hugo Roberto Basualdo Miranda, Gabinete Historia Universal, Departamento de Historia, Universidad Nacional de San Juan Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Medicine, Mentalities
Abstract	Taking the feast as a starting point, these panels interrogate medieval writers' assessments of rulership and authority via discussions of court consumption and ostentation. Beginning in the luxury register, this session examines investment in the intangible; the pursuit, proffering and denial of literary and religious authority. Sami Kalliosaari interrogates luxury production in the service of a royal ideology of wisdom in the court of Wessex.