IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1727: Celebrating Excess?: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Court, Consumption, and Authority, III - Transgression, Controversy, and Consequences
Thursday 7 July 2016, 14.15-15.45
Organisers: | Geoffrey Humble, Department of History, University of Birmingham Sami Kalliosaari, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
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Moderator/Chair: | Sami Kalliosaari, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
Respondent: | Björn Weiler, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University |
Paper 1727-a | Excessive Love at the Court of Edward II (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Historiography - Medieval, Politics and Diplomacy, Religious Life |
Paper 1727-b | Largesse, Generosity, Theft, and Extraction: Reading Court Consumption in 'Mongol' Historiography (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Rhetoric |
Paper 1727-c | The Rise of Wang Xizhi's Calligraphy in Emperor Taizong's Court (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Historiography - Medieval |
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. This session interrogates the expression of transgressive consumption. Kit Heyam exposes the use of biblical exempla to condemn royal patronage and favouritism by Edward II. Dustin Aaron brings together a wide range of source material to demonstrate the artistic and economic consequences of successively more extractive Capetian court policies. Geoffrey Humble demonstrates the selective employment of narrative techniques and imagery in Chinese and Persian portrayals of praiseworthy generosity and excessive taxation at early Mongol courts. |