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IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 1113: Medieval Roman Empires East and West, II: Christianity and Empire

Wednesday 5 July 2023, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:Institute of Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Durham University
Organiser:Len Scales, Institute of Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Durham University
Moderator/Chair:Len Scales, Institute of Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Durham University
Paper 1113-aHigh Noon of Empire?: Byzantium towards the Mid-11th Century
(Language: English)
Jonathan Shepard, Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford
Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1113-bAnno of Cologne and Albero of Trier: Imperial Bishops and the Roman Past
(Language: English)
Matthew Clayton, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1113-cJustinian in the 12th-Century Latin West
(Language: English)
Björn Weiler, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University
Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract

The session examines the role of Christian doctrine and religious institutions and personalities, as resources of empire and as supplying frameworks within which to conceptualise empire. It also engages with Christianity as a channel to imagined Roman pasts adaptable both to legitimise and to critique medieval eastern and western emperorships. It thus sheds light on some of the distinctively medieval dimensions of imperial memory and practice.