IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1348: Networks of War
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Regula Schmid Keeling, Geschichte des Mittelalters, Université de Fribourg |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Regula Schmid Keeling, Geschichte des Mittelalters, Université de Fribourg |
| Paper 1348-a | Summoning the Countryside: The Integration of Fribourg's Peripheric Territories in the Town's Military Organisation, 1400-1550 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Military History, Social History |
| Paper 1348-b | Coveted Experts: Master Gunners in the Service of Urban Networks (Language: English) Index terms: Military History, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Abstract | This session argues that war and warfare were pivotal factors for propelling the dynamics of late medieval social and political change. It focuses on the towns and city-states of the south of the German Empire, that were exposed to the continuous presence of war throughout the late Middle Ages. The papers discuss how the presence of war shaped urban and rural societies, by addressing, first, the military interaction of town and hinterland in the emerging city state, and second, the role of military experts who were exchanged between towns, thus putting urban networks into practice. |