IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 548: Jousts and Pas d'Armes, I: Armour, Equipment, and Costume
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Pas d'Armes Research Group |
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| Organiser: | Alan V. Murray, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ros Brown-Grant, School of Languages, Cultures & Societies - French, University of Leeds |
| Paper 548-a | Armour and Dress for the Pas d'Armes: Real Playing for Roles (Language: English) Index terms: Military History, Performance Arts - Drama |
| Paper 548-b | Heraldic Horse Harness Pendants and Related Equipment Fittings (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Art History - Painting, Heraldry |
| Paper 548-c | Between a Monk and a Hard Place: Ulrich von Liechtenstein and the Invention of the Jousting Tour (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Mentalities, Military History |
| Abstract | In the later Middle Ages 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. This session explores the increasingly specialised equipment, costumes and other accoutrements and highlights how they were employed in tournament culture in England, France, Burgundy and the Holy Roman empire. |