IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1007: Rulership in Medieval East Central Europe, I: Beginning and Development of the First Dynasties
Wednesday 3 July 2019, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Grischa Vercamer, Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Dušan Zupka, Institute of History, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava |
| Paper 1007-a | From Territory to Gens: Beginning of the Ruling Power on the Eastern Border of the Carolingian Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 1007-b | Theory and Practice of Legitimizing Royal Power in Early Medieval Hungary: The Arpadian Dynasty (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought, Social History |
| Paper 1007-c | The Piast Rulership: The Process of Building Dynastic Power (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought, Social History |
| Abstract | The rise of the Christianised monarchies in East Central Europe at the turn of the first Millennium brought about a significant change on the political map of medieval Europe. The new polities of the Piasts, Árpáds and Přemyslids became legitimate and equal members of the Latin Christendom. Ideologically the new realms were centred on the person of their ruler, the support of his closest advisers, the ecclesiastic administration as well as dynastic and sacral legitimisation of their rule. This session is meant to provide a comparative overview of the most recent research on rulership in theory and practice, with a particular emphasis on legitimisation and building of dynastic power in High Medieval Poland, Hungary and Bohemia. |