IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 533: Personal and Political Networks in Late Medieval France, c. 1200-c. 1500, I: Royal and Anti-Royal Networks
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Katharine Bennett, Department of History, University of York Nathan Meades, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Justine Firnhaber-Baker, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews |
| Paper 533-a | Networks of Wisdom: Giles of Rome's De Regimine Principum at the Court of the Capetian Kings (Language: English) Index terms: Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 533-b | Entangled in Flames: The Failure of Charles VI's Personal and Political Network to Uphold Royal Dignity at the Ball of the Burning Men (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Performance Arts - General, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 533-c | The 'Praguerie' Rising of 1440 and Rebellious Networks in Valois France (Language: English) Index terms: Military History, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This strand seeks to consider how political networks were constructed, represented, maintained, and contested in late-medieval France (c.1200-c.1500). This period is often depicted as one of consolidation, centralisation, and the emergence of the modern French 'state', but recent work highlights the important interplay of complex networks of political actors and interests in formulating 'politics' across the span of the regnum Francie. We aim to consider the integral role played by these forces, and the personal and political networks within which they were enmeshed, in both reinforcing and challenging the practices and processes of politics, broadly defined, in late medieval France. |