IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 119: Other Violence, I
Monday 3 July 2017, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main / Institute of History, University of Hradec Králové |
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| Organisers: | Zdeněk Beran, Institute of History, University of Hradec Králové Jessika Nowak, Historisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg |
| Moderator/Chair: | Anna Dorofeeva, Historisches Seminar, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main |
| Paper 119-a | War, Military Violence, and Otherness: Extraordinary Forms of Conflict in the Remission Letters for Soldiers in France and the Burgundian State, 15th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Military History, Social History |
| Paper 119-b | Crime and Punishment in Middle Byzantine Law Books (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Daily Life, Law |
| Paper 119-c | Violence Prevention and Use of Force in Byzantine Canon Law (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Lay Piety |
| Abstract | ‘See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence’ – said Noam Chomsky. But what is violence? It is not only the use of physical force that is intended to hurt, damage, or kill. Obviously, there are also less fundamental forms of ferocity, brutality, and destructiveness: ‘the other violence’ that is to be discovered beyond battlefields, in relationships, in cities, and in homes. This series of presentations will explore some facets of this ‘other violence’. The papers, which examine the different forms of violence on a broad scale, take into consideration how these forms are reflected in different sources (e.g. letters, law books) and how they are portrayed in different social spheres, the aristocratic and the ecclesiastical one. |