IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 138: Elite Entanglements and Places of Power in West Francia, 850-1050
Monday 3 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Organisers: | Thomas Greene, Department of History, Loyola University Chicago Orsolya Varró, Department of Medieval & Early Modern History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Thomas Greene, Department of History, Loyola University Chicago |
| Paper 138-a | Königsnähe and the Counts in the Late 9th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 138-b | When There's No One Left to Count On: The Comital Structures of Mâcon and Freising within Local Networks of Power, 10th-11th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 138-c | Bishops or Pawns?: The Limits of Episcopal Power in 10th- and 11th-Century Aquitaine (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 138-d | Royal Authority and Monastic Gifts: Robert the Pious, Fleury, and the Relics of St Denis (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | The participants in this session interrogate the entanglement of power and place across West Francia over two centuries. In the four papers, border elites (re)position themselves in relationship to the king in a time of dynastic upheaval; counts contend with a power vacuum above them and the emergence of new power brokers on a local level; bishops deftly maneuver through the uncertainty caused by comital strife; multiple meanings emerge from a gift meant to tie a young royal dynasty to an established locus of sacred power. Through these entanglements, elites constructed, navigated, and renegotiated their networks of power. |