IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 524: Transition and Change in Later Medieval War, I: Perceptions and Implications
Tuesday 7 July 2015, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
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| Organisers: | Trevor Russell Smith, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Iason-Eleftherios Tzouriadis, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ralph Moffat, Glasgow Museums, Glasgow |
| Paper 524-a | Why Were There No Revolutions in Medieval Military History 800-1500? (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Military History, Teaching the Middle Ages, Technology |
| Paper 524-b | 'More Like Slaves Than Soldiers'?: Perspectives on the Military Aspects of Mid-Tudor Rebellions (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Military History |
| Paper 524-c | Object Imaginations: Weapons and Armour in 13th- and 14th-Century Illuminated German Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - General, Language and Literature - German, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | This session examines the perceptions and implications of change in later medieval war. Dr Bennett opens the subject by analysing the many supposed 'military revolutions', and argues that economic and social factors encouraged a slower evolutionary development. Dr Hodgkins explores the varied representation and perception of rebel forces in 16th-century England, and how they have affect our understanding of the past. Ms Kaske tracks changing military and political symbolism of knights and their equipment in late 13th- to early 14th-century German manuscript illuminations of the Willehalm-cycle, and their reflections of contemporary reality. |