IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 809: Noblesse oblige?: Intermediate Élites and the Common Good in Medieval Afro-Eurasia, IV
Tuesday 2 July 2024, 16:30-18:00
| 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/Chairs: | Maximilian Lau, Faculty of History, University of Oxford Gregory Lippiatt, Department of Archaeology & History, University of Exeter |
| Paper 809-a | Seconds in Command?: Delegated Authority and Duration in High Medieval Conquest Narratives (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought and Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 809-b | Y-a-t-il des spécificités qui distinguent les élites de l'Empire romain d'Orient? (Language: Français) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Political Thought and Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 809-c | The Establishment and Maintenance of Burid Power in Damascus during the Reign of Tughtegin, 1104-1128 (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Islamic and Arabic Studies, 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 the treatment of intermediate powers in narrative and prosopographical sources. 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. |