IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1707: The Ideals of Warfare: Chivalry, Emotion, and the Crusades
Thursday 10 July 2014, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | History Lab, Institute of Historical Research, University of London |
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Organiser: | Claire Trenery, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London |
Moderator/Chair: | Simon Thomas Parsons, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London |
Paper 1707-a | Granting Mercy and Peace: The Treatment of Opponents in War in 11th-13th-Century Norway, England, and Denmark (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Mentalities, Military History |
Paper 1707-b | When the Crusader's Blood Boiled: Anger and Its Management in Sources for the Crusades (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities, Rhetoric |
Abstract | This panel examines various attitudes towards warfare from notions of chivalry in Scandinavia to the adaptation and use of crusade rhetoric in Scotland. A wide chronological and geographical scope allows for the acknowledgement and exploration of different and changing approaches to warfare. Chivalric codes of behaviour can be contrasted to the evidence of anger in crusade accounts, illustrating the emotions stimulated by war and how the norms of social behaviour could be forgotten in the heat of a battle. Warfare did not always conform to the ideals of the chivalric code and was often complicated by emotion, politics, and subterfuge. |