IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 633: Personal and Political Networks in Late Medieval France, c. 1200-c. 1500, II: Official and Diplomatic Networks in and around France
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| 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/Chairs: | Katharine Bennett, Department of History, University of York Claudia Wittig, Centre for Medieval Literature, Syddansk Universitet, Odense |
| Paper 633-a | Up and Down, Side to Side: Fugitives and Officials along and across the Rhône, c. 1200-1400 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 633-b | 'Subaltern' Royal Officers as a Network of Intermediaries between 'Town' and 'Crown'?: The View from Lyon and Toulouse (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Genealogy and Prosopography, Local History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 633-c | Negotiating Diplomatic Networks in 13th-Century Champagne-Navarre (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, 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. |