IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 721: Violence and Rules, III: Heroic Violence in the Eastern and in the Western World
Tuesday 10 July 2012, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń / Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft |
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| Organiser: | Sieglinde Hartmann, Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sieglinde Hartmann, Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main |
| Paper 721-a | Which Should be Obeyed: The Imperial Law or a Lord's Command? - A Special Japanese Conflict of Rules to Follow (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Other, Law, Military History, Social History |
| Paper 721-b | Ancient Warrior Ethics and Their Transformation in Middle Indic Heroic Epics and Chronicles (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Other, Mentalities |
| Paper 721-c | At the Threshold of Hell: Northern Crusaders on the Way to Satan's Dominion (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - German, Mentalities |
| Abstract | The session aims to present new intercultural approaches to rules in heroic conflicts in the history of Eastern and Western hemispheres such as they are reflected in historiography and/or heroic epics. Main examples are taken from Japanese, South Asian and Baltic German cultures. The purpose of our investigation will be to shed new light on specific cultural differences concerning the rules imposed by custom or a higher authority to heroes considered as a special section of medieval society. As one possible result we hope to develop new methods of combining literary and sociological approaches to explain interrelations between rules and heroism in medieval societies. |