IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1035: Making of Europe, I: Diplomacy in Southern Medieval Europe
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | British Academy / Leverhulme Small Grants |
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Organisers: | Barbara Bombi, School of History, University of Kent Pietro Mocchi, Centre for Medieval Studies University of Kent |
Moderator/Chairs: | Jenny Benham, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University Barbara Bombi, School of History, University of Kent |
Paper 1035-a | Networking the Written Word: Producing and Keeping Records of Diplomatic Pacts in the Iberian Peninsula, 1096-1325 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 1035-b | Sicilian Noblemen and Diplomacy in the 14th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 1035-c | Conflict and Diplomacy between Fiction and Reality: Gregory XII and Benedict XIII on the Eve of the Council of Pisa, 1408 (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy |
Abstract | The study of medieval diplomacy is a helpful lense to examine complex and long-term social and political phenomena. It is also a multifaceted field that requires historians to balance different levels of enquiry, from the political to the social, from the abstraction of ideologies and values to the more material aspects of primary sources. This panel will investigate three different case studies with a geographical focus on Southern Europe, from Portugal to Italy. The first paper will concentrate on the materiality of records of diplomatic agreements in medieval Iberia, thus shedding light onto their respective documentary cultures and record-keeping. Our second paper will overview the available sources to study Sicilian diplomacy in the late Middle Ages, and it will examine the biographies of the Sicilian aristocracy involved in diplomatic missions in the context of the Kingdom of Sicily's entanglement of connections and interests across the Mediterranean sea.The third paper will focus on fictitious epistles, often overlook historical sources, in order to better understand the vibrant dynamics of conflict and diplomacy leading up to the Council of Pisa (1409). |