IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1316: Boundaries of Governance, IV: Language and Literature in the Limits of Power
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
| Organisers: | Ali Al-Khafaji, Department of History, University of Bristol Rhiannon Cox, Department of History, University of Bristol |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Chris Given-Wilson, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews |
| Paper 1316-a | Cambellanus, Camaralengo, Chambellan, Camarlenc: Navigating Linguistic Boundaries in the Administration of Champagne-Navarre (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Charters and Diplomatics, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1316-b | What It Means to Be King: Ideals of Kingship in 15th-Century Royal Genealogical Chronicles (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1316-c | Tyrannical Lawmaker versus Righteous Judge: Norms in the Struggle for the Ducal Throne of Kraków, 1177-1194 (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, 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. |