IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1337: Materialities of Reign: Charters as Proxies for Political Negotiation Processes in Central and 'Peripheral' Regions of Latin Europe, II: Central, Northern, and Eastern European Perspectives
Wednesday 3 July 2019, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Sven Jaros, Historisches Seminar, Universität Leipzig |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Robert Friedrich, German Historical Institute, Paris |
| Paper 1337-a | Negotiating Power and Reign?: The Initial Poem in the Golden Bull of Charles IV and Its Material Conditions (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities, Rhetoric |
| Paper 1337-b | Mediating the Union: Mid-Level Agency and Elites in Late Medieval Norway during the Early Reign of King Erik III (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Charters and Diplomatics, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1337-c | Literacy and Orality as Elements of Negotiating Land Ownership in Early Jagiellonian Crown Ruthenia (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Charters and Diplomatics, Literacy and Orality, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | Integration of approaches from social and cultural history has revived research into medieval reign in recent years. Reign is now mainly perceived as a discursive practice by a group of heterogeneous actors, each with distinct motivations and networks. Since this stresses the importance of communicative proximity, actors had to cope with the challenge of spatial distance, necessitating both acts and agents of mediation. The processes involved often materialized in the issuing of charters. Hence, diplomatic analyses can contribute greatly to displaying these negotiation processes. In our session, we will pursue this approach by comparing case studies from various regions of Latin Europe, representing its internal diversity. |