IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1708: The Tournament as Spectacle, III: Court Culture
Thursday 9 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
| 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: | Raluca Radulescu, Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Bangor University |
| Paper 1708-a | The Pas d'armes as Spectacle?: Towards a Nuanced Definition of the Passage of Arms (Language: English) Index terms: Military History, Social History |
| Paper 1708-b | The Spectacle of Ritual in René d'Anjou's Livre des tournois (Language: English) Index terms: Military History, Social History |
| Paper 1708-c | Late Medieval Tournaments as Spectacle: Maximilian I and the Tournaments of his Court (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, 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. |