IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 350: A Scandinavian Sonderweg?, III: The Fiction of the 'State'
Monday 6 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study, University of California, Berkeley |
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Organiser: | Geoffrey Koziol, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley |
Moderator/Chair: | Hans Jacob Orning, Institutt for arkeologi, konservering og historie, Universitetet i Oslo |
Paper 350-a | Lordship in Late Medieval France: Re-Centring the State (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Charters and Diplomatics, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 350-b | Un-Centring the State: Associative Institutions in Medieval Europe, 11th-13th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Charters and Diplomatics, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 350-c | The Field of Power in Early 12th-Century Denmark (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Charters and Diplomatics, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
Abstract | This third session of 'A Scandinavian Sonderweg?' addresses issues of political order, with the purpose less of making comparisons than of establishing terms and categories of analysis that enable comparison. Firnhaber-Baker will discuss the limits of monarchical power in later medieval France and argue that lordship is a more important category for analyzing power. Building on this theme, Koziol will emphasize the importance of horizontal political associations, from treaties and convenientiae to peace-leagues and communes. Esmark will discuss conflicts among magnates in 12th-century Denmark and the role kings played in them. |