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IMC 2017: Sessions

Session 219: Other Violence, II

Monday 3 July 2017, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main / Institute of History, University of Hradec Králové
Organisers:Zdeněk Beran, Institute of History, University of Hradec Králové
Jessika Nowak, Historisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Moderator/Chair:Andreas Karg, BayWISS, Bayerisches Wissenschaftsforum, München
Paper 219-a'Other Violence' in the World of Czech Late Medieval Nobility: Demarcation, Refusal, Acceptance
(Language: English)
Zdeněk Beran, Institute of History, University of Hradec Králové
Index terms: Political Thought, Social History
Paper 219-bThe Outward Display of Hostility between the Czech Royal Towns and Nobility in the 15th and at the Beginning of the 16th Centuries
(Language: English)
Jana Vojtíšková, Department of Auxiliary Historical & Archival Sciences, University of Hradec Králové
Index terms: Political Thought, Social History
Paper 219-cThe Breach of Rules: Violence at the Papal Court in the 15th Century
(Language: English)
Jessika Nowak, Historisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy
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.