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 |
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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-a | High Noon of Empire?: Byzantium towards the Mid-11th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 1113-b | Anno of Cologne and Albero of Trier: Imperial Bishops and the Roman Past (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 1113-c | Justinian in the 12th-Century Latin West (Language: English) 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. |