IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 609: Noblesse oblige?: Intermediate Élites and the Common Good in Medieval Afro-Eurasia, II
Tuesday 2 July 2024, 11:15-12:45
| Sponsor: | AHRC Project 'Noblesse oblige?: 'Barons' and the Public Good in Medieval Afro-Eurasia, 10th-14th Centuries' |
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| Organisers: | Maximilian Lau, Faculty of History, University of Oxford Gregory Lippiatt, Department of Archaeology & History, University of Exeter |
| Moderator/Chair: | Gregory Lippiatt, Department of Archaeology & History, University of Exeter |
| Paper 609-a | The Rich, The Poor, and The State: Ideas of Good Government in Mid-Imperial China (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Political Thought and Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 609-b | From Magna Carta to the Montfortian Revolution: Rethinking English Barons and the Common Good through the 'Noblesse oblige?' Network (Language: English) Index terms: Political Thought and Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 609-c | Intermediate Elites and the Common Good in the Medieval Pacific (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Archaeology - General, Political Thought and Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | The medieval 'baron' is an image popularly understood as a negative, self-interested actor, at least in western Europe. This strand examines the history and historiography of this idea in a transnational perspective by examining intermediate élites across Afro-Eurasia in the High Middle Ages as part of our AHRC-funded network. In this session, we will explore case studies that look at a particular text or group of texts that articulates intermediate élites' approaches to or justifications of power. This strand is a preliminary presentation of the work done in our research network over the past year and a half on the nature, status, and role of non-royal political actors in relation to the common good. |