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Killing and being killed: bodies in battle : perspectives on fighters in the Middle Ages / Jörg Rogge (edition)

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Mainzer historische Kulturwissenschaften ; volume 38.Publisher: Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (271 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 3839437830
  • 9783837637830
  • 3837637832
  • 9783839437834
Other title:
  • Bodies in battle
  • Perspectives on fighters in the Middle Ages
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 940 23
LOC classification:
  • D104.5 .K55 2017eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Killed and being killed. Perspectives on bodies in battle in the Middle Ages - and introduction / Jörg Rogge -- "The Goths drew swords together." Individual and collective acts of violence by Gothic warlords and their war bands / Guido M. Berndt -- The torture of bodies in Byzantium after the Riots (Sec. IV-VIII) / Bogdan-Petru Maleon -- "One man slashes, one slays, one warns, one wounds." Injury and death in Anglo-Scottish combat, c.1296-c.1403 / Iain Macinnes -- Willing body, willing mind: non-combatant culpability according to English combatant writers, 1327-77 / Trevor Russell Smith -- Body techniques of combat : the depiction of a personal fighting system in the fight books of Hans Talhofer (1443-1467 CE) / Eric Burkart-- Six weeks to prepare for combat : instruction and practices from the fight books at the end of the Middle Ages, a note on ritualised single combats / Daniel Jaquet -- The body of the condottiero. A link between physical pain and military virtue as it was interpreted in Renaissance Italy / Giulia Morosini -- Two kinds of war? Brutality and atrocity in Later Medieval Scotland / Alastair J. Macdonald -- Logistics and food supply in the Crònica of Ramon Muntaner / Judith Mengler -- Summary and conclusions : silent men and the art of fighting / Dominik Schuh.
Summary: What bodily experiences did fighters make through their lifetime and especially in violent conflicts? How were the bodies of fighters trained, nourished, and prepared for combat? How did they respond to wounds, torture and the ubiquitous risk of death? The articles present examples of body techniques of fighters and their perception throughout the Middle Ages. The geographical scope ranges from the Anglo-Scottish borderlands over Central Europe up to the Mediterranean World. This larger framework enables the reader to trace the similarities and differences of the cultural practice of "Killing and Being Killed" in various contexts.
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Killed and being killed. Perspectives on bodies in battle in the Middle Ages - and introduction / Jörg Rogge -- "The Goths drew swords together." Individual and collective acts of violence by Gothic warlords and their war bands / Guido M. Berndt -- The torture of bodies in Byzantium after the Riots (Sec. IV-VIII) / Bogdan-Petru Maleon -- "One man slashes, one slays, one warns, one wounds." Injury and death in Anglo-Scottish combat, c.1296-c.1403 / Iain Macinnes -- Willing body, willing mind: non-combatant culpability according to English combatant writers, 1327-77 / Trevor Russell Smith -- Body techniques of combat : the depiction of a personal fighting system in the fight books of Hans Talhofer (1443-1467 CE) / Eric Burkart-- Six weeks to prepare for combat : instruction and practices from the fight books at the end of the Middle Ages, a note on ritualised single combats / Daniel Jaquet -- The body of the condottiero. A link between physical pain and military virtue as it was interpreted in Renaissance Italy / Giulia Morosini -- Two kinds of war? Brutality and atrocity in Later Medieval Scotland / Alastair J. Macdonald -- Logistics and food supply in the Crònica of Ramon Muntaner / Judith Mengler -- Summary and conclusions : silent men and the art of fighting / Dominik Schuh.

What bodily experiences did fighters make through their lifetime and especially in violent conflicts? How were the bodies of fighters trained, nourished, and prepared for combat? How did they respond to wounds, torture and the ubiquitous risk of death? The articles present examples of body techniques of fighters and their perception throughout the Middle Ages. The geographical scope ranges from the Anglo-Scottish borderlands over Central Europe up to the Mediterranean World. This larger framework enables the reader to trace the similarities and differences of the cultural practice of "Killing and Being Killed" in various contexts.

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