IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 526: Finding the Middle Ages in The Dawn of Everything
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Anarchist Approaches to the Middle Ages |
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| Organisers: | Huw Jones, Faculty of History, University of Oxford Moritz Wallenborn, School of History, University of Leeds |
| Moderator/Chair: | Stamatia Noutsou, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno |
| Paper 526-a | The Anarchic Puppet: David Graeber, Medieval Humour, and Object Performance (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - General, Performance Arts - General, Social History |
| Paper 526-b | Anarchy and the Archive: The Medieval Deep Past (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 526-c | The Late Medieval Agenda of Hierarchy in the Holy Roman Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Political Thought, Social History, Theology |
| Abstract | This session is hosted by Anarchist Approaches to the Middle Ages, a collective which brings together scholars who are critical or sceptical of teleologies of progress, state formation, and 'development' in our understanding of the medieval past. This year, we are thinking in particular about the work of the late David Graeber and how medievalists can respond to anarchist ideas, including ones which make little space for the Middle Ages. This session takes as its starting point David Graber and David Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything and offers three distinct responses. |