IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 2007: Climates of Violence, I
Friday 9 July 2021, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Faculty of History, University of Cambridge / St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews |
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| Organisers: | Giulia Bellato, Trinity College, University of Cambridge Aron Kecskes, School of History, University of St Andrews |
| Moderator/Chair: | Julia K. Rohn, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews |
| Paper 2007-a | Proverbial Violence and Violence in Proverbs: Late Medieval Climates of Violence (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 2007-b | 'Nulli umquam malum pro malo reddens': The Pontiffs' Violence between Omissions and Rhetorical Strategies in the Liber Pontificalis, Late 8th to Early 9th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 2007-c | Situating a Climate of Violence in the Gesta Wiscardi (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities |
| Abstract | When thinking about the Middle Ages, violence is one element that routinely colours understandings of these centuries. The assumption of medieval societies having been immersed in a climate of violence is a persistent one. Violence, however, was not a fixed condition, but rather a flexible and contextual set of practices. Can we still talk of a static medieval 'climate of violence', or would it be more productive to move our focus onto 'climates of violence'? This strand offers a variety of approaches to understand and re-assess the place and the functions of violence as a medieval social practice. |