IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 113: Political Climate in the Early and High Middle Ages: Changes, Upheavals, and Their Consequences
Monday 5 July 2021, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Lisa Klocke, Lehrstuhl für die Geschichte des Frühmittelalters, Ruhr-Universität Bochum / _Regesta Imperii_, Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur, Mainz |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Maria-Elena Kammerlander, Lehrstuhl für Mittelalterliche Geschichte II, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg |
| Paper 113-a | Opportunism as Policy in Times of Change?: Duke Gislebert between East Francia and West Francia, 10th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 113-b | 'Diabolica suasione seductus': No More Sunshine between Conrad II and Archbishop Aribo of Mainz? - The Relationship of the First Salian to the Archbishop in the Light of the Changing Political Climate (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought |
| Paper 113-c | Climate Change and Its Political Consequences: Friedrich Barbarossa, the Siege of Rome in 1167, the Italian Weather, and Upheavals North of the Alps (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought |
| Abstract | A political situation can change as quickly as the weather. This session will therefore discuss the change in the political climate in the Early and High Middle Ages. It begins in the 10th century with Duke Gislebert, who acted between the East Franconian and West Franconian empires. A leap into the 11th century brings us to the first Salian ruler Conrad II and his relationship to Archbishop Aribo of Mainz, which was significantly influenced by the political climate. One century further on, we stand with Friedrich Barbarossa at the gates of Rome in 1167 and examine to what extent the epidemic influenced existing patterns of succession. |