IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 219: Students, Mercenaries, Artists: Perceptions of Male Travel in the Later Middle Ages
Monday 12 July 2010, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Exzellenzcluster 212: 'Religion und Politik', Institut für vergleichende Städtegeschichte, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster |
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| Organiser: | Maximilian Schuh, Exzellenzcluster 'Religion & Politik', Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster |
| Moderator/Chair: | Hannah Skoda, Merton College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 219-a | Mobility and Masculinity: Academics' (Self-)Perceptions in the Later Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Education, Gender Studies |
| Paper 219-b | Dangerous Travellers?: Mercenaries' Practice of War between Profession and Gender (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Military History |
| Paper 219-c | Artists' Travels between Nuremberg and Venice about 1500: The Transfer of 'Male' Painting Techniques (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Gender Studies |
| Abstract | The life of medieval academics, mercenaries, and artists - who had otherwise very little in common - was characterised by extensive mobility throughout the Latin West. The session examines the (self-)perceptions of these different groups in late medieval sources with a special focus on the construction of gender in connection with travel. How the voyagers' masculinity was seen by themselves and others is discussed with reference to students travelling between university towns in Europe, the 'male' atrocities of the highly mobile mercenaries, and the transfer of 'male' painting techniques from Venice to Nuremberg. |