IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 712: Cross-Cultural Representations of War and Warriors in the Crusading Era
Tuesday 8 July 2014, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Ayşegül Keskin Çolak, Department of History, Bilkent Üniversitesi, Ankara |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Rhoads Murphey, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, Department of Classics, Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Birmingham |
| Paper 712-a | Comparing Early Ottoman Warrior Ethic with Christian Knightly Ideal (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Military History |
| Paper 712-b | The Turkish Warrior As a Part of Knightly Criticism in Late Medieval Europe (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Military History |
| Paper 712-c | 'Infidels in blue ironcoats': Representation of European Knights in Early Ottoman Sources (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Military History |
| Abstract | This panel seeks to compare and contrast the way the war and warriors ethics are represented both in the Western European and early Ottoman literary sources. Paper A aims at investigating certain parallelism between the representation of warrior ethic in the early Ottoman sources and the Christian/Western knightly ideal. Paper B aims at looking into the eastern/Turkish warrior image as they are depicted in Western European literary sources, predominantly those belonging to the late medieval period. Finally, Paper C will look into Ottoman motives for engaging war with Eastern and Western European powers and the way they represented European knights in terms of their way of conducting battle. |