IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 518: Military Skills and Martial Pleasures, I: Archery, Jousts, Hunting, and Sociability
Tuesday 2 July 2013, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Laura Crombie, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Joanna Bellis, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 518-a | 'Ready to Disport with You': Sports, Guild Life, and Homosociability in 15th-Century Calais (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Gender Studies, Military History, Social History |
| Paper 518-b | Hunting, Sociability, and the Consumption of Royal Favour in 13th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Daily Life, Heraldry, Social History |
| Paper 518-c | Knights, Heraldry, and the Display of Status by Urban Elites (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Heraldry, Social History |
| Abstract | Military games could be about more than training for war, they could strengthen societies through martial pleasure, as will be shown in different contexts. Firstly in looking at archery in Calais the roles of masculinity and homosocial-bonding within archery contests will be examined. Then in looking at 13th-century England the societies and even patronage networks developed through hunting at the royal court will be set in the context of largess and royal generosity as well as another context. This is the first of 4 panel looking at social bonds, brotherhood, political interaction, and culture through the lens of martial activities. |