IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 709: Noblesse oblige?: Intermediate Élites and the Common Good in Medieval Afro-Eurasia, III
Tuesday 2 July 2024, 14:15-15:45
| 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: | Amira K. Bennison, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 709-a | The Maliks of Hindustan and the Indo-Islamic Frontier, c. 1200 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Political Thought and Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 709-b | Intermediate Elites and Ordos Plateau Soil Erosion: Environmental Impacts of Medieval Colonialism and Enclosure on an Asian Monsoon Shatterzone (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Geography and Settlement Studies 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 the ways in which intermediate élites inhabited, used, and approached space and their environment as part of their political role. 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. |