IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 220: 'What is it good for?': War and Warfare in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland
Monday 9 July 2012, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Ben Snook, Queen Mary, University of London |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Erik Niblaeus, International Consortium for Research in the Humanities, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| Paper 220-a | Give War a Chance: Just War and Conflict Resolution in 9th- and 10th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Military History, Philosophy, Political Thought |
| Paper 220-b | Church Militant, Church Triumphant?: The Wars of the Bishop-Kings of Munster in the 9th and 10th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Celtic, Military History |
| Paper 220-c | The Land of Hope and Glory: Assessing the Materiality of Viking-Age Conflict in England (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - Sites, Military History |
| Abstract | Warfare intruded, in some way, into almost every aspect of medieval life, both sacred and secular. This session will examine attitudes towards warfare in early medieval Britain and Ireland, explore the practical realities of conflict and its aftermath, and reassess the wider dynastic, social and economic impacts of war on early medieval societies. In constructing a panoramic view of early medieval conflict, the papers offered will span the disciplines of history, philosophy, literature and archaeology. War, it will be suggested, was good for much more than 'absolutely nothing' in the early Middle Ages. |