IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 128: Building Authority in Time of Crisis
Monday 1 July 2024, 11:15-12:45
| Sponsor: | Uniwersytet Warszawski |
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| Organiser: | Jerzy Pysiak, Wydzial Nauk o Kulturze i Sztuce, Uniwersytet Warszawski |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jerzy Pysiak, Wydzial Nauk o Kulturze i Sztuce, Uniwersytet Warszawski |
| Paper 128-a | The Beloved Master of the Holiest Abbey: Abbo of Fleury's Monastic Ideal and Abbatial Authority during the 10th-Century Monastic Reform in Comparative Perspective (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism and Religious Life |
| Paper 128-b | Emotions in Relations of Power in Polish Late Medieval Historiography (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin and Mentalities |
| Paper 128-c | Did Women Really Have No Political Agency in the Roman Cities? (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Daily Life, Epigraphy and Social History |
| Abstract | Crisis - in its political, social and economic dimensions - usually calls for redefinition and renegotiation of Authority. The aim of this session is to explore the establishment and social negotiations of authority in different contexts of medieval Latin literature. The first paper (Karolina Białas) examines strive towards definition of abbot’s power in the context of monastic reform in the 10th century on an example of Fleury Abbey. The second paper (Kalina Słaboszowska) focuses on the emotions employed in establishing, sustaining, and executing relations of power as presented in late Medieval Polish chronicle - the „Annales” of Jan Długosz. The third and the last one presentation (Sylwia Matysiak) addresses the question of female agency in the late Antiquity and ways of commemorating and reinforcing the political power in local communities of Roman Empire. |