IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1631: Violence and Order in the Medieval World
Thursday 6 July 2017, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | California Institute of Technology / Huntington Library Humanities Collaboration 'Violence & Order, Past & Present' |
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| Organiser: | Leah Klement, Division of the Humanities & Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology / Huntington Library, California |
| Moderator/Chair: | Warren Brown, Division of the Humanities & Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology |
| Paper 1631-a | Setting the Saxons up for Success: Violence and Coercion during the Conversion of the Saxons, 772-804 (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Law, Political Thought |
| Paper 1631-b | Citizenship, Indigeneity, and the Ethics of Violence in Arnulf of Orléans's Commentary on Lucan (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Political Thought |
| Paper 1631-c | Is There a Case for a Minimalist View of Anglo-Saxon Law? (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Political Thought |
| Abstract | The Middle Ages are often invoked by the media, politicians, and even scholars of the modern world as an era of unrestrained violence. However, as scholars of medieval violence have shown, violence in the Middle Ages was often highly regulated, and intersected in complex ways with social, legal, and religious institutions. This session will explore the variety of attitudes toward violence and social order in the medieval world, working toward a better understanding of the purposes of violence in the Middle Ages, and of modern interpretations (or misinterpretations) of those ideas. |