IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 121: Rules of Violence, I: Spaces for Political Violence
Monday 9 July 2012, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Forschergruppe 'Gewaltgemeinschaften', Universität Gießen / Oswald-von-Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft |
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| Organiser: | Cora Dietl, Institut für Germanistik, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Cora Dietl, Institut für Germanistik, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen |
| Paper 121-a | Areas Open to Violence?: The Borders of North England in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Historiography - Medieval, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 121-b | Legal Rules and Feud Narratives: An Anglo-Saxon Case-Study (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 121-c | Forging the Past: John Hardyng and Anglo-Scottish Relations (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Middle English, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | Violence, as a form of non-verbal communication and as a means of politics in Dark Age and medieval societies, follows certain rules. These rules partly depend on the respective spaces where violent actions take place. The papers in this session ask about the dialogical character and about certain logics that can be detected in politically motivated acts of violence within the field of Anglo-Scottish relations in the early and the later Middle Ages, whether they are located along the border lines or in the institutional centres of justice and power. The papers also ask whether the border room between England and Scotland was also used as an open field for the construction of violence and broken rules in literature and historiography. |