IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 717: Auctoritas after Rome: New Approaches to 'Authority' in the Early Middle Ages, I - Geographies of Power
Tuesday 6 July 2021, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Medieval Studies Program, Cornell University |
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Organisers: | Samuel James Barber, Medieval Studies Program, Cornell University Mateusz Fafinski, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin |
Moderator/Chair: | Becca Grose, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
Paper 717-a | Mapping Merovingian Monarchs: Geography of Power in Northern Gaul, 450-650 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archaeology - General, Geography and Settlement Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 717-b | Sedes regiae and the 'Political Landscape' of Northern Italy, 400-700 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archaeology - General, Geography and Settlement Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 717-c | Spending Power: Money and Authority in North and Central Italy, 750-850 (Language: English) Index terms: Numismatics, Political Thought |
Abstract | This session examines the production of 'geographies of power' in the Early Middle Ages from diverse methodological standpoints. From the interaction of royal agents and local power-brokers, to new approaches to questions of royal mobility and the framework of 'sedes regiae', and a renewed attention to coinage circulation as an index of political relations, these papers offer new, comparative perspectives on the spatialization of authority in the Early Middle Ages. |