IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1216: Boundaries of Governance, III: Legitimacy and the Ideals of Rule
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Ali Al-Khafaji, Department of History, University of Bristol Rhiannon Cox, Department of History, University of Bristol |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Gabrielle Storey, Department of History, University of Winchester |
| Paper 1216-a | Negotiating the Border between Self and Other in Ibn Hazm's Approach to Heresy: Islamic Law's Turn to the Arts (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Law, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1216-b | The Folly of Favouritism: Edward II and the Limits of Royal Power (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1216-c | The Oath of Fidelity, Aristocratic Conflicts, and the Logic of Reciprocity: The Limits of King's Power in the Early Medieval Iberian Peninsula (Language: English) Index terms: Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy, Rhetoric |
| Abstract | Medieval royal and aristocratic rulers occupied a position in which they simultaneously enforced boundaries for and exercised power over the wider populace but were also subject to limits on their authority. These limitations might have been explicit, as in the legal and financial systems which established guidelines for rulers, or implicit, as in the social expectations and political networks that they were required to navigate. Geographic, legal, social, and political boundaries of governance may have developed slowly over centuries, or been consolidated by development and reform over a shorter period of time, or overhauled in times of crisis. |