IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1502: Anarchist Approaches to the Middle Ages, I: Rethinking the Role of the State in Medieval History and Historiography

Sponsor:	Anarchist Approaches to the Middle Ages
Organiser:	Ian Forrest, Oriel College, University of Oxford
Moderator/Chair:	Claire Taylor, Department of History, University of Nottingham
Paper 1502-a	The State as an Obstacle to Writing Global Medieval History (Language: English) Amanda Power, St Catherine's College, University of Oxford Ian Forrest, Oriel College, University of Oxford Index terms: Anthropology, Historiography - Modern Scholarship
Paper 1502-b	Pushing Borders of Power: Legal Changes in Wood Law in Southern Westphalia in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Monika Veronika Eisenhauer, Independent Scholar, Koblenz Index terms: Economics - Rural, Law
Paper 1502-c	Individual Agency, Merchant Capital(ism), and State Ideology in 16th-Century North-Western Europe (Language: English) Maria Aleksandrova, Centre for Medieval Studies Higher School of Economics Moscow Index terms: Economics - Trade, Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract	The first of two sessions sponsored by the Anarchist Approaches to the Middle Ages group. Following a successful roundtable on this theme at IMC 2019 attended by an international group of medievalists from all career stages, these sessions are experiments in rethinking the Middle Ages using anarchist ideas and approaches. This session challenges the centrality of states and 'the state' to historical research.