IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 605: Exile in the Global Middle Ages, II: Amnesty and Reconciliation
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University |
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| Organisers: | Jenny Benham, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University Harry Mawdsley, Department of History, University of Sheffield |
| Moderator/Chair: | Harry Mawdsley, Department of History, University of Sheffield |
| Paper 605-a | 'Wiping the slate clean': Amnesty, Exile, and International Law, 700-1200 (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 605-b | 'Come home, I will not arrest you': Exile and Amnesty in Coptic Documents from Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Religious Life |
| Paper 605-c | Exiles, Amnesty, and Peace-Making in Byzantine Treaties, 900-1200 (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Law, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | Amnesty, exile, and reconciliation are intimately intertwined. Amnesty - stipulating that all violence, damage, and injury done by one party to another would be forgotten - often pitted different aims, rights, authority, and jurisdiction of various individuals, communities, or sections of society against each other at different times in the reconciliation process with those returning from exile. This session will explore the relationship between amnesty, exile, and reconciliation across three different societies - Egypt, Byzantium, and the medieval West - in the early and high Middle Ages. It will examine legal rules and the extent to which they were obeyed and practised on a regular basis, and seek to understand parties' willingness (or not) to collaborate and cooperate with each other and to participate in their wider communities. |