Image from Google Jackets
Image from OpenLibrary

Killing and Being Killed: Bodies in Battle : Perspectives on Fighters in the Middle Ages / ed. by Jörg Rogge.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften ; 38Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2018]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783839437834
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleLOC classification:
  • D104.5 .K55 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Editorial -- CONTENT -- Preface -- Introduction -- "The Goths Drew Swords Together" Individual and Collective Acts of Violence by Gothic Warlords and their War Bands -- The Torture of Bodies in Byzantium After the Riots (Sec. IV-VIII) -- "One man slashes, one slays, one warns, one wounds: Injury and Death in Anglo-Scottish Combat, c.1296-c.1403 -- Willing Body, Willing Mind: Non- Combatant Culpability According to English Combatant Writers, 1327-77 -- Body Techniques of Combat: The Depiction of a Personal Fighting System in the Fight Books of Hans Talhofer (1443-1467 CE) -- 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 -- The Body of the Condottiero A Link Between Physical Pain and Military Virtue as it was Interpreted in Renaissance Italy -- Two Kinds of War? Brutality and Atrocity in Later Medieval Scotland -- Logistics and Food Supply in the Crònica of Ramon Muntaner -- Summary and Conclusions: Silent Men and the Art of Fighting -- Contributors
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.Contributions by Iain MacInnes, Alastair J. Macdonald, Bogdan-Petru Maleon, and others.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
E-Book E-Book De Gruyter Available

Frontmatter -- Editorial -- CONTENT -- Preface -- Introduction -- "The Goths Drew Swords Together" Individual and Collective Acts of Violence by Gothic Warlords and their War Bands -- The Torture of Bodies in Byzantium After the Riots (Sec. IV-VIII) -- "One man slashes, one slays, one warns, one wounds: Injury and Death in Anglo-Scottish Combat, c.1296-c.1403 -- Willing Body, Willing Mind: Non- Combatant Culpability According to English Combatant Writers, 1327-77 -- Body Techniques of Combat: The Depiction of a Personal Fighting System in the Fight Books of Hans Talhofer (1443-1467 CE) -- 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 -- The Body of the Condottiero A Link Between Physical Pain and Military Virtue as it was Interpreted in Renaissance Italy -- Two Kinds of War? Brutality and Atrocity in Later Medieval Scotland -- Logistics and Food Supply in the Crònica of Ramon Muntaner -- Summary and Conclusions: Silent Men and the Art of Fighting -- Contributors

Open Access unrestricted online access star

https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2

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.Contributions by Iain MacInnes, Alastair J. Macdonald, Bogdan-Petru Maleon, and others.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

University of Rizal System
Email us at univlibservices@urs.edu.ph

Visit our Website www.urs.edu.ph/library

Powered by Koha