IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1508: The Tournament as Spectacle, I: Honour and Status
Thursday 9 July 2015, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
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| Organiser: | Alan V. Murray, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Moderator/Chair: | Alan V. Murray, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Paper 1508-a | For Fame and Honour: Ideas of Honour as Reflected in the Medieval Tournament (Language: English) Index terms: Military History, Social History |
| Paper 1508-b | Joust for fun?: The Danger of Using the Guise of a Tournament for Social and Political Advancement in the Hundred Years War (Language: English) Index terms: Military History, Social History |
| Paper 1508-c | Tournaments and Social Status: The Profile of Tourneyers in the Late Medieval Low Countries (Language: English) Index terms: Military History, Social History |
| Abstract | The period from the 13th to the 16th centuries witnessed a rapid development of the tournament. Alongside the original tourney, a mass battle fought between opposing armies of knights with minimal and rudimentary regulation, new forms of chivalric military contests emerged, in which representation and entertainment figured just as much as the necessity of practice for warfare. The joust featured individual combats, with increasingly elaborate rules and variations in form and accompanying pageantry, while the passage of arms placed tournaments within theatrical and allegorical formats. Such events, particularly at the courts of France, Burgundy, England, and the German principalities, were increasingly integrated in wider festivities, ceremonies, and diplomatic negotiations. |