IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 227: Elite Legitimacy on the Borders of Latin Christendom: Poland and Norway, 1000-1300, II - Spaces of Legitimation
Monday 4 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Norway Grants Project 'Symbolic Resources & Political Structures on the Periphery: Legitimisation of the Elites in Poland & Norway, c. 1000-1300' |
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| Organisers: | Hans Jacob Orning, Institutt for arkeologi, konservering og historie, Universitetet i Oslo Grzegorz Pac, Wydział Historyczny, Uniwersytet Warszawski |
| Moderator/Chair: | Hans Jacob Orning, Institutt for arkeologi, konservering og historie, Universitetet i Oslo |
| Paper 227-a | Iconography and Legitimisation of Ideology on 11th-Century Coinage (Language: English) Index terms: Numismatics, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 227-b | Social Elite and Female Monastic Foundations in the 12th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life, Social History, Women's Studies |
| Paper 227-c | Local Cults of Saints and Legitimisation of Bishops and Bishoprics (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Local History, Religious Life, Social History |
| Abstract | Self-legitimising efforts of peripheral elites involved projecting their elevated status in different spatial contexts, both physical and symbolic. In that sense, the elites appropriated, used, and produced new spaces in which their privilege and deservedness to rule could be staged and locations which functioned as nodes in their networks of power. This session focuses on how Christian ideology present in different areas such as coins, monasteries, or cults in local milieus was employed by Polish and Norwegian elites to legitimise their power. |