Virtuous Violence: The Persistence of the Warrior Tradition in the Effective Value Systems of Crusaders and Noblemen to 1500
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Seigneurie: Group for the Study of the Nobility, Lordship, and Chivalry
Organizer Name
D'Arcy Jonathan D. Boulton
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Notre Dame
Presider Name
D'Arcy Jonathan D. Boulton
Paper Title 1
Not Cruelty but Piety? Assessing European Crusader Violence
Presenter 1 Name
Susanna A. Throop
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Ursinus College
Paper Title 2
"Chivalric" Identity in Exile: Warfare, Honor, Violence, and the Florentine Fuorusciti in Thirteenth-Century Italy
Presenter 2 Name
Peter W. Sposato
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Indiana Univ.-Kokomo
Paper Title 3
"I will be dead or revenged on those Moors": Personal and Corporate Honor and Vengeance in the Fifteenth-Century Castilian Reconquista
Presenter 3 Name
Samuel A. Claussen
Presenter 3 Affiliation
California Lutheran Univ.
Paper Title 4
The Persistence of the Warrior Tradition in the Last Years of the Middle Ages: The Example of the Pas d'Armes in Burgundy under Duke Charles the Bold
Presenter 4 Name
Guillaume Bureaux
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. de Rouen/Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris
Start Date
13-5-2016 3:30 PM
Session Location
Fetzer 2040
Description
The papers of this session deal with the persistence of the Germanic warrior tradition in the effective value-systems both of noblemen and of crusaders, noble and otherwise, and of the consequent acceptance of violent means to achieve many highly-valued goals, especially the pursuit and defense of individual and collective honor. They look at these questions from different perspectives in different contexts, countries, and centuries, from the eleventh to the fifteenth. They also serve to illustrate the principal theme of the Seigneurie sessions at the Congress: the centrality of these warrior-values in the true ideals of knightliness or "chivalry'.
Virtuous Violence: The Persistence of the Warrior Tradition in the Effective Value Systems of Crusaders and Noblemen to 1500
Fetzer 2040
The papers of this session deal with the persistence of the Germanic warrior tradition in the effective value-systems both of noblemen and of crusaders, noble and otherwise, and of the consequent acceptance of violent means to achieve many highly-valued goals, especially the pursuit and defense of individual and collective honor. They look at these questions from different perspectives in different contexts, countries, and centuries, from the eleventh to the fifteenth. They also serve to illustrate the principal theme of the Seigneurie sessions at the Congress: the centrality of these warrior-values in the true ideals of knightliness or "chivalry'.