IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1013: Medieval Roman Empires East and West, I: Emperors and Others
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Institute of Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Durham University |
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| Organiser: | Len Scales, Institute of Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Durham University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jonathan Shepard, Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1013-a | Looking for Imperial Agents in the Holy Roman Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 1013-b | Decentring the Byzantine Emperor: Constraints and Limitations on Imperial Action, 1258-1341 (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Genealogy and Prosopography, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 1013-c | Performing Imperial Resilience in the Late Middle Ages: Manuel II and Sigismund of Luxemburg (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | The session examines eastern (Byzantine) and western (Holy Roman) emperors in relation to other political actors, both externally (their eastern/western imperial counterpart) and internally (local imperial representatives, other powerful families). It seeks to shed light both on the lineaments and the limits of the personal power of emperors, and in so doing to stimulate reflection on the nature of the two empires themselves and of pre-modern imperial power more broadly. |