IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 1031: Twilight Zone: Party Strife, Feuding, and Private Warfare in the Late Middle Ages, I
Wednesday 11 July 2012, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Department of Medieval History, Universiteit Leiden |
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| Organiser: | Peter Hoppenbrouwers, Department of Medieval History, Universiteit Leiden |
| Moderator/Chair: | Peter Hoppenbrouwers, Department of Medieval History, Universiteit Leiden |
| Paper 1031-a | Feuding in Frisian Monasteries (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Social History |
| Paper 1031-b | Party Strife in a 'Feuding Society': Friesland in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Military History, Social History |
| Paper 1031-c | Factionalism and Party Strife in the City of Utrecht (Language: English) Index terms: Military History, Social History |
| Abstract | During the final centuries of the Middle Ages the Low Countries were ridden by violent clashes between interest groups, called 'parties', that, on the one hand, coincided with antagonistic family networks but, on the other hand, could easily be politicized, i.e. connected with larger political issues. Exactly this ambiguous setting, in a twilight zone between a public/political and a private/familial field of action, makes party strife an attractive subject of historical research. Especially when linked to such typical phenomena of late medieval ‘politics' as feuding, bastard feudalism, and private warfare, it could contribute to a better understanding of the counterweights that were build-up against the slow but relentless rise of the modern state in Western Europe. |