IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 1619: Pleasure in Everyday Life of German Noblemen and Noblewomen in the Late Middle Ages
Thursday 4 July 2013, 11.15-12.45
Organiser: | Benjamin Müsegades, Historisches Institut, Universität Greifswald |
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Moderator/Chair: | Mark Whelan, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London |
Paper 1619-a | Enjoying and Curbing the Pleasures of Life: The Education of German Princes in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Literacy and Orality |
Paper 1619-b | Fighting, Drinking, and Whoring: Noble Pleasures at Late Medieval Universities? (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Social History |
Paper 1619-c | Peace Negotiations During the Reign of Maximilian I and the Pleasant Sides of Diplomacy (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Charters and Diplomatics |
Abstract | The concept of pleasure is of prime importance to late medieval German noble life. In tournaments, the arts or everyday conversation it played a significant role. However, the idea of princes, courtiers, and their family members leading a life of pleasures also attracted a great deal of criticism. Outsiders as well as members of the courts propagated means to curb what they saw as excessive behaviour such as drinking, disrespect towards elders, and a self-referential system of behavioural manners, portraying other ways of medieval life as being supposedly superior to court life. |