IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1624: Loyalty as Entanglements, II: Loyalty in War
Thursday 6 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Haskins Society / Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies |
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| Organiser: | Chris Lewis, Institute of Historical Research, University of London / Department of History, King's College London |
| Moderator/Chairs: | Matthew Bennett, Department of History, University of Winchester Ryan Lavelle, Department of History, University of Winchester |
| Paper 1624-a | Earl Uhtred and the Balancing of Loyalties in Early 11th-Century Northumbria (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 1624-b | Loyalty, Rebellion, and Treason in Capetian Anjou, 1199-1246 (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 1624-c | Blood and Loyalty: Bastards and Vendetta in Late Medieval Society (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Social History |
| Abstract | Three linked sessions and a round table explore the somewhat neglected topic of loyalty in the Middle Ages. They follow from sessions in 2020 and 2021. The wider project aims to expand the ways of understanding medieval loyalty beyond the loyalties of men and lords or subjects and kings. These sessions for 2023 focus on loyalty as a form of entanglement. Session II is about loyalty and war, where the entanglement is with the conflicting courses of action that were available to participants in complex political situations. The individual papers range across the central to the late medieval period and from Northumbria to France. There is a focus on the limits of loyalty, pretended loyalty, and changes of loyalty. |