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 |
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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-a | William Arnold's Skull: The Avignonet Massacre of 1242 (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Social History |
Paper 2107-b | Inventories of Medieval Violence (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Mentalities, Social History |
Paper 2107-c | Headless Soldiers: Material Traces of Violence in the Berlin Sketchbook (Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, MS sign. 78 b 3 a) (Language: English) 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. |