IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 328: Practices and Legacies of Kingship, III: Propaganda and Papal Involvement
Monday 4 July 2016, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Kerstin Hundahl, Historiska Institutionen, Lunds Universitet |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Sally N. Vaughn, Department of History, University of Houston, Texas |
| Paper 328-a | King Offa's Genes in the Papal Archive: A Lost Royal Legacy (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Genealogy and Prosopography, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 328-b | Defaming Kings and Stirring Scandal: Excommunication as Propaganda in the 13th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 328-c | Papal Involvement and Propaganda in the Danish Battle for the Throne in the Mid-13th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This session explores ways in which the papacy and propaganda played a role in European kingship.The first paper investigates one of the earliest instances of royal property being passed down along a “genealogical” line with papal approval, namely that of Offa of Mercia and explores the implications the concept of genealogia had in a wider European context. The second paper will explore the way in which the Church used the threat or sentence of excommunication to disseminate negative publicity against their enemies, and how thirteenth-century kings reacted to this. The third paper examines the importance of papal involvement during the political conflicts of the mid-13th century in Denmark and the role the papacy played in the creation of propaganda and legitimacy. |