IMC 2025: Sessions
Session 1104: Morality and the Economy, II: Distributive Justice across Modern Theory and Medieval Practice
Wednesday 9 July 2025, 11:15-12:45
| Organiser: | Roy Flechner, School of History, University College Dublin |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Caroline Goodson, American Academy in Rome / Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 1104-a | Searching for Distributive Justice on Papal Patrimonies in the Long 6th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Economics - General, Monasticism |
| Paper 1104-b | Wealth, Wisdom, and Distributive Justice: The Regulation of the Alfredian Knowledge Economy (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Political Thought |
| Paper 1104-c | Moral Economies in the Making: Cistercianism, Angevin Tyranny, and the Theo-Political Background to Magna Carta (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Monasticism, Political Thought |
| Abstract | The allocation of resources, assets (both material and intellectual), and the share that labourers ought to have in the fruits of their labour, are classic themes in political theories of distributive justice. This session explores these themes from a number of different perspectives: normative, intellectual, and practical. It will examine the efficacy of modern theoretical discourses to explain economic phenomena ranging from distribution of resources, to wealth accumulation, to labour exploitation, to the 'knowledge economy'. The papers will allow a comparative perspective across both time and political boundaries: England before and after the Norman conquest, and the Mediterranean world before and during the pontificate of Pope Gregory the Great. |