18 January 2019

CALL FOR PAPERS: Non-Royal Rulership in the Earlier Medieval West, c. 600-1200 (University of Leeds, 8-9 April 2019) (DEADLINE: 31 JANUARY 2019)


(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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