4 ‘Rex imperator in regno suo’ – An Ideology of Frenchness? Late Medieval France, Its Political Elite and Juridical Discourse

Jostkleigrewe, Georg

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Jones

Mauntel

Oschema

2017

The Medieval History Journal

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In recent years, research on the concept of 'empire' has seen an upswing of interest in both Political Science and History. Definitions of 'empire' abound, as they do for words such as 'discourse', 'performance' and 'culture'. Countless books and edited volumes concerning questions of 'empire' have been published since the turn of the century. On the most general level, however, the majority of studies on questions of 'empire' tend to neglect Acknowledgements: The contributions to the present volume result from two sessions at the IMC at Leeds in 2014, which were kindly sponsored by the Cluster of Excellence Asia & Europe in a Global Context at Heidelberg University. Christoph Mauntel and Klaus Oschema would like to acknowledge the support of the Cluster of Excellence. Their contributions incorporate research conducted as part of the project World Orders in Transcultural Perspective: Pre-modern Concepts of Continents and Empire funded by the Cluster from 2013 to 2016. We also like to thank Friederike Pfister (Bochum) for her valuable help with the material preparation of the manuscripts.

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Controversial Terminology

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Mauntel

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2017

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Jones

2017

The Medieval History Journal

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Between 1200 and 1350, the meaning attributed to the terms 'emperor' and 'empire' evolved in France to reflect the growth in power of the Capetian-Valois kings and a concomitant decline in the authority exercised by contemporary Romano-German rulers. Both terms were ubiquitous in France in this period. The fact that neither was adopted to describe the expansion of royal power was because, as this article will demonstrate, its growth was considered a consolidation of existing rights and was limited by deep-seated concerns for legitimacy, neither of which fostered imperial comparisons. At the same time, a multi-layered understanding of imperial terminology developed in France. On one level, 'empire' and 'emperor' became interchangeable with 'kingdom' and 'king'. Yet imperial vocabulary remained highly malleable. Philip IV's conflict with the papacy led to the development of specific arguments intended to undermine any subordination Acknowledgements: Research for this article was facilitated by a fellowship at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in association with the Sonderforschungsbereich 933 der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (Materiale Textkulturen: Materialität und Präsenz des Geschriebenen in non-typographischen Gesellschaften). Versions of the article were presented at the 2014 Leeds International Medieval Congress, as well as the 2015 conferences of ANZAMEMS and the Medieval Association of the Pacific. The author is grateful to participants at all three, to the anonymous reader and, in particular, to his fellow editors, Klaus Oschema and Christoph Mauntel, for their comments and advice.

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4 ‘Rex imperator in regno suo’ – An Ideology of Frenchness? Late Medieval France, Its Political Elite and Juridical Discourse

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