IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1148: Warfare in Literature
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | De Re Militari: Society for Medieval Military History |
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| Organiser: | Ilana Krug, Department of History & Political Science, York College of Pennsylvania |
| Moderator/Chair: | Kelly DeVries, Department of History, Loyola College, Maryland / Royal Armouries, Leeds |
| Paper 1148-a | The Chronology and Geography of Alexios I Komnenos' Campaign against the Pechenegs, 1087 (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Military History |
| Paper 1148-b | Gunpowder in the Chronistic Spanish Poetry of the Renaissance: The Consecration of Don Juan de Austria as the Strategist Officer in La Austríada (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Military History |
| Paper 1148-c | Warfare and Political Poetry in the 14th Century: To Exalt or Decry? (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Other, Military History |
| Abstract | Literature can often be an important lens through which to view medieval military operations and developments. This session seeks to focus on this relationship by offering three such glimpses: the details of the Byzantine campaign against the Pechenegs contained in Anna Komnene's Alexiad; the way gunpowder completely changed the language of warfare as evidenced in the literary representations of war in the Spanish La Austríada; and the differing and often contradictory attitudes towards war and war preparations preserved in early 14th-century English poetry. |