IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 521: The North Remembers: Chivalry and Warfare in Late Medieval Scotland
Tuesday 8 July 2014, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Lauren Chochinov, School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures, University of Edinburgh |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Andy King, Department of History, University of Southampton |
| Paper 521-a | The Points of Contact: Scottish Political Society, 1124-1329 (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 521-b | 'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown': Sir Gawain, King Arthur, and Kingship in the Chronicles and Arthurian Romances of Late Medieval Scotland (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 521-c | 'Reskew off me thow sall get nane this day': The Making and Breaking of Oaths and Engagement with Chivalry in Barbour's Bruce and Hary's Wallace (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Military History |
| Abstract | This session will provide an examination of the military, political, and social issues in late medieval Scottish literary sources. Tom Marks will present a paper discussing the military career of Sir Henry de Beaumont in relation to the War of Independence. Lauren Chochinov's paper examines ideas of kingship as represented by the literary figures of King Arthur and Sir Gawain in late medieval Scottish Arthurian romance. Callum Watson will explore the way in which Scottish authors John Barbour and Blind Hary deal with the issue of the taking and breaking of oaths, which is demonstrated in their wider engagement with the subject of chivalry. All three papers, while having a particular relevance to the medieval kingdom of Scotland, will touch upon themes and ideas relating to the wider European community of the period. |