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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 2107: Climates of Violence, II

Friday 9 July 2021, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:Faculty of History, University of Cambridge / St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews
Organisers:Giulia Bellato, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
Aron Kecskes, School of History, University of St Andrews
Moderator/Chair:Gregory Lippiatt, Centre d'Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale (CESCM), Université de Poitiers
Paper 2107-aWilliam Arnold's Skull: The Avignonet Massacre of 1242
(Language: English)
Claire Taylor, Department of History, University of Nottingham
Index terms: Mentalities, Social History
Paper 2107-bInventories of Medieval Violence
(Language: English)
Ryan Nakano Low, Department of History, Harvard University
Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Mentalities, Social History
Paper 2107-cHeadless Soldiers: Material Traces of Violence in the Berlin Sketchbook (Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, MS sign. 78 b 3 a)
(Language: English)
Carolin Gluchowski, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, 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.