IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1204: Warfare and the Church, c. 1000-1300, I: Conceptions
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Alastair Forbes, Department of History, Durham University Grant Jones, Department of History, Durham University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Malek Jamal Zuraikat, Department of English Yarmouk University Jordan |
| Paper 1204-a | Knightly Lives and Knightly Literature: The Role of Clerical Teachings in the Civilising of Knighthood (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Mentalities, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 1204-b | Mortal Combat: Monastic Ideals of Bloodless Warfare in the Early 12th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Military History, Monasticism |
| Paper 1204-c | 'We'll watch you from here, and see how a bishop fights!': Warrior Bishop and Frontier Knights in the Cantar de mio Cid (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Mentalities |
| Abstract | This session explores the conceptual relationships between the Church and the milites (knights) across the 11th to early-13th centuries. Each paper considers a different aspect of how ecclesiastical and knightly figures conceptualised and presented ideals of each other's order: the formation of chivalry in the Church's Peace, Truce, and crusade movements of the 11th century; the monastic reconciliation of lay warfare and the means they identified for enacting its bloodless ideal in the early-12th century; and the presentations of attitudes towards conflict on the Moorish frontier in the Cantar de mio Cid written at the turn of the 13th century. |