IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1135: Martial Culture through the Middle Ages, II: Within the Walls of the Medieval Town
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Universität Bern |
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Organiser: | Regula Schmid Keeling, Geschichte des Mittelalters, Université de Fribourg |
Moderator/Chair: | Regula Schmid Keeling, Geschichte des Mittelalters, Université de Fribourg |
Paper 1135-a | Fighting Experts: Fencers, Gunners, and Arbalesters as Masters in Swiss Towns (Language: English) Index terms: Local History, Military History |
Paper 1135-b | Aspects of Urban Military Organisation in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: The Case of Freiburg im Üechtland, c. 1440-1500 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Military History |
Paper 1135-c | The Spaces of Martial Culture in Late Medieval Towns (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Secular, Military History |
Abstract | Our research project (2018-22) considers towns as producers, organisers, and brokers of martial culture within the rapidly changing political world of late medieval Europe. It examines how towns transformed and were transformed by military techniques and urban 'martial culture'. The latter developed at the intersection of legal prerogatives, political requirements, and the evolving ownership and use of weapons. It integrates a number of historiographical approaches that are usually explored separately: urban institutional, social, and political history; military history; arms and armour; urban martial competitions; knowledge production and dissemination; fighting expertise, and the transformation of the urban space itself. |