IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 647: Arms, Armour, and the Arts of Combat, II: The Production, Function, and Significance of Armour
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Iason-Eleftherios Tzouriadis, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Iason-Eleftherios Tzouriadis, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Paper 647-a | A Foreign Guy with One Eye on the Field of Verneuil, 17 August 1424 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Military History, Technology |
| Paper 647-b | Along the Street of Smiths: Armourers and the Artistic Networks of Late Medieval Augsburg (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Economics - Urban, Genealogy and Prosopography, Military History |
| Paper 647-c | Armour Decoration as an Identifier of Origin (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - Decorative Arts, Military History |
| Abstract | This session will explore several facets of late medieval armour's production, function, and significance. Ralph Moffat will investigate the origins of Milanese plate armour in the early 15th century and the role, armour, and mounts of Milanese men-at-arms at the 1424 battle of Verneuil. Chassica Kirchhoff will use objects, images, archival accounts, and prosopographical data to analyse the artistic and social networks of Augsburg armourers in the 15th and early 16th centuries. Karen Watts will assess the role of iconography and decoration in determining the place of Italian and German armour's manufacture in cases where makers' marks are absent. |