IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1052: Anarchist Approaches to the Middle Ages, I: Rethinking What We Know Best - Narratives of State Building
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Anarchist Approaches to the Middle Ages (AAMA) |
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| Organiser: | Ian Forrest, Oriel College, University of Oxford |
| Moderator/Chair: | Simon Stuart Yarrow, Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages, University of Birmingham |
| Paper 1052-a | The Inevitability of Kingship?: Models and Rulership and Acephalous Society in Early Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 1052-b | Making a Medieval Anthropocene: Strategies for State-Building (Language: English) Index terms: Political Thought, Religious Life |
| Paper 1052-c | Narratives of 'Capitalism', 'Institutions', and 'State Building' in the Late Medieval Economy: A Critical Revision (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Political Thought |
| Abstract | The first session in a strand sponsored by the Anarchist Approaches to the Middle Ages group. Following a successful round table discussion on this theme at IMC 2019, attended by an international group of medievalists from all career stages, this session is an experiment in 'rethinking what we know best' (i.e. our specialisms in Medieval Studies) using anarchist ideas and approaches. The first session focuses on unravelling accepted narratives of state building and development, looking at the political structure of early medieval England, the idea of the Anthropocene, and the meta-narratives of capitalism and institutions. |