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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
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-aMapping Merovingian Monarchs: Geography of Power in Northern Gaul, 450-650
(Language: English)
Jip Barreveld, Faculteit Archeologie Universiteit Leiden
Index terms: Administration, Archaeology - General, Geography and Settlement Studies, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 717-bSedes regiae and the 'Political Landscape' of Northern Italy, 400-700
(Language: English)
Samuel James Barber, Medieval Studies Program, Cornell University
Index terms: Administration, Archaeology - General, Geography and Settlement Studies, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 717-cSpending Power: Money and Authority in North and Central Italy, 750-850
(Language: English)
Sophie Alice Hemmings, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge
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.