Killing and Being Killed: Bodies in Battle: Perspectives on Fighters in the Middle Ages

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2017

Killing and Being Killed: Bodies in Battle

Perspectives on Fighters in the Middle Ages

Edited by: Jörg Rogge

Volume 38 in the series Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839437834

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Jörg Rogge is Professor of History, Middle Ages, at the University of Mainz, Germany. He is also spokesperson of the Research Unit Historical Cultural Sciences, Mainz. His research interests are methods and theory of cultural historical sciences, and social and cultural history of late medieval Europe.

Reviews

»Das generelle Verdienst des Bandes [ist es], einen wertvollen Beitrag zur Erforschung der mittelalterlichen Kriegerelite geleistet und fruchtbare Impulse gesetzt zu haben. Nicht zuletzt sind anhand verschiedener Einzelstudien lohnende Perspektiven für eine weitere Beschäftigung aufgezeigt worden.«
Sebastian Schaarschmidt, H-Soz-u-Kult, 18.07.2018

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Editorial Open Access Download PDF	2
CONTENT Open Access Download PDF	5
Preface Jörg Rogge Open Access Download PDF	7
Introduction Jörg Rogge Open Access Download PDF	9
"The Goths Drew Swords Together" Individual and Collective Acts of Violence by Gothic Warlords and their War Bands Guido M. Berndt Open Access Download PDF	15
The Torture of Bodies in Byzantium After the Riots (Sec. IV-VIII) Bogdan-Petru Maleon Open Access Download PDF	43
"One man slashes, one slays, one warns, one wounds: Injury and Death in Anglo-Scottish Combat, c.1296-c.1403 Iain Macinnes Open Access Download PDF	61
Willing Body, Willing Mind: Non- Combatant Culpability According to English Combatant Writers, 1327-77 Trevor Russell Smith Open Access Download PDF	79
Body Techniques of Combat: The Depiction of a Personal Fighting System in the Fight Books of Hans Talhofer (1443-1467 CE) Eric Burkart Open Access Download PDF	109
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 Open Access Download PDF	131
The Body of the Condottiero A Link Between Physical Pain and Military Virtue as it was Interpreted in Renaissance Italy Giulia Morosini Open Access Download PDF	165
Two Kinds of War? Brutality and Atrocity in Later Medieval Scotland Alastair J. Macdonald Open Access Download PDF	199
Logistics and Food Supply in the Crònica of Ramon Muntaner Judith Mengler Open Access Download PDF	231
Summary and Conclusions: Silent Men and the Art of Fighting Dominik Schuh Open Access Download PDF	251
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	267

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Keywords: Middle Ages; Fight; Violence; Conflict; Medieval History; Early Modern History; European History; History; Cultural History

eBook

Published: January 27, 2018
ISBN: 9783839437834