Fluctuating Networks: The Constructive Role of Broken Bonds in the Medieval Mediterranean and Beyond
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Medieval Studies Research Group, Univ. of Lincoln
Organizer Name
Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo
Organizer Affiliation
School of History and Heritage, Univ. of Lincoln
Presider Name
Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo
Paper Title 1
The Peasant Parvenu: Social Climbing in Tenth-Century Spain
Presenter 1 Name
Robert Portass
Presenter 1 Affiliation
School of History and Heritage, Univ. of Lincoln
Paper Title 2
Noble Women and Their (Broken) Allegiances in Late Byzantium
Presenter 2 Name
Petra Melichar
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Slavonic Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Paper Title 3
Studios: A Network of Alternative Power in Ninth-Century Constantinople
Presenter 3 Name
Arthur Robert Westwell
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Cambridge
Start Date
15-5-2015 3:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1320
Description
The aim of this session is to re-consider theories and approaches to the study of medieval social, political, economic and cultural networks from multidisciplinary perspectives. The medieval Mediterranean, as a space of interaction and communication, offers a myriad of possibilities to explore, which increase even more when considering its connections with Europe and the rest of the known world.
In particular, we would welcome studies which examine how agents and circumstances, which in principle undermined and destroyed pre-existing bonds, in reality generated parallel structures and alternative webs of relatedness. Political conspiracy is a case in point. Similarly, betrayal could be read as an alteration of a system of trust, which simply shifted toward other individuals with whom new connections were established.
Through the analysis of textual and material sources, as well as visual art and architecture, this panel seeks to explore ideas and narratives of exclusion as potential seeds for new or renewed types of private and public networks. Ethnic, religious, political, economic, legal and cultural aspects were all at stake when de-constructing, while re-constructing, bonds between individuals and entire communities.
Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo
Fluctuating Networks: The Constructive Role of Broken Bonds in the Medieval Mediterranean and Beyond
Schneider 1320
The aim of this session is to re-consider theories and approaches to the study of medieval social, political, economic and cultural networks from multidisciplinary perspectives. The medieval Mediterranean, as a space of interaction and communication, offers a myriad of possibilities to explore, which increase even more when considering its connections with Europe and the rest of the known world.
In particular, we would welcome studies which examine how agents and circumstances, which in principle undermined and destroyed pre-existing bonds, in reality generated parallel structures and alternative webs of relatedness. Political conspiracy is a case in point. Similarly, betrayal could be read as an alteration of a system of trust, which simply shifted toward other individuals with whom new connections were established.
Through the analysis of textual and material sources, as well as visual art and architecture, this panel seeks to explore ideas and narratives of exclusion as potential seeds for new or renewed types of private and public networks. Ethnic, religious, political, economic, legal and cultural aspects were all at stake when de-constructing, while re-constructing, bonds between individuals and entire communities.
Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo