(Source: Hsozkult)
Via Hsozkult, we learned
of a call for papers for a conference on non-royal rulership in the earlier
medieval West at the University of Leeds. The potential subjects include areas
of interest to Medieval legal historians.
Between
the breakdown of Roman rule and the sweeping legal and administrative changes
of the later twelfth century, western Europe saw many types of rulers. The
precise nature of their title and authority changed: dukes, counts, rectores,
gastalds, ealdormen… These rulers were ubiquitous and diverse, but despite the
variation between them, they all shared a need to conceptualise, to justify,
and to exercise their rule without access to the ideological and governmental
resources of kingship. This conference invites proposals for papers which will
explore the political practices of non-royal rulers across the earlier medieval
period, in order to understand how the ambiguities of a position of rule that
was not kingship were resolved in their various inflections. […]
The full Call can be found here
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