(Source: CRHIDI)
Please find
below the draft programme for the Brussels Medieval Culture and War Conference,
which has several sessions that include legal historians.
ABOUT
An omnipresent phenomenon, war was a
dominant social fact that impacted every aspect of society in the Middle Ages.
Abandoning the so-called histoire-bataille that studied war on its own as an
isolated succession of battles, studies have moved towards investigation of the
reciprocal relationships between military conflicts and the economic, legal,
political, religious, and social spheres in the Middle Ages.
After previous meetings held at the
University of Leeds in 2016 and the University of Lisbon in 2017, the 2018
edition of the Medieval Culture and War Conference takes place at the
Saint-Louis University, Brussels, and focuses on the theme of Power, Authority,
and Normativity. Papers will discuss how medieval warfare, through the
organisation, the techniques, and the discourses it mobilised, contributed to
the shaping of power and power relationships, and how these power relations, in
turn, could influence the adoption of certain forms of military organisation
and techniques of warfare; how war related to the concept of authority; and how
it was regulated by changing sets of rules over the period. How did power
relationships, ideas about authority, and evolving norms have an impact on
medieval warfare in theory and in practice? Papers from various theoretical and
disciplinary backgrounds (military history, social and political history, legal
history, art history, literary studies, gender studies, urban history) will be
presented.
DRAFT
PROGRAMME
Thursday
24 May
09.30-10.00: Registration and welcome tea and coffee
10.00-10.30: Introduction
10.30-12.00: Session 1: War and Princely Power I
Edward Cavanagh (University of Cambridge): Conquest
for the Crown: War, Legal
Personality, and the Royal Prerogative in English Constitutional Thought, 1066-1566
Marie-Astrid Hugel (EHESS Paris/Ruprecht-Karls-Univeristät Heidelberg): Can we Define a
King without War or
a Churchman as War Leader? The Use
of War in the Priest-Kingly
Representations through the Example of the Priest-King Melchisedech (14th-15th Centuries)
Gilles Lecuppre (Université
catholique de Louvain): Exposing the Prince:
Brabant, Flanders
and Hainault, 13th-early 15th c.
12.00-13.00: Lunch
13.00-14.30: Session 2: Representing the Ethics of Warfare
Morgane Bon (Université de Lille): Depicting War
Violence at the Time of the
Burgundian
Wars through the Illuminations of the Diebold Schilling the Elder chronicle (1474-1477)
Pierre Courroux (British Academy, University of
Southampton): The Imaginary Battles in
Medieval Chronicles: Ideal Fights and Typological Thought
Trevor Russell Smith (University of Leeds): Rhetoric
of Violence and Suffering in English
Historical Literature, 1327–1377
14.30-14.45: Coffee Break
14.45-16.15: Session 3: Military Organisation, Recruitment, and Political Structures
Marco Fasolio (Università del Piemonte Orientale):
Applying the anachronism. Theodore I
Palaiologos of Montferrat and warfare between theory and practice
Kristjan Oad (Tallinn University): Crusades to the Eastern Baltic – A War of Conquest?
Malte Prietzel (Universität Paderborn): Political
Deficiencies and Military Disasters. The
Holy Roman Empire and the Hussite Wars, 1419-1434
16.15-16.30: Coffee Break
16.30-17.30:
Keynote 1: Justine Firnhaber-Baker (University
of St Andrews): Seigneurial
Wars and Peasant Revolts: What’s in a Name?
18.30-19.30: Visit of Brussels’ Town Hall and Market Square (Grand-place)
Friday, 25 May
9.30-11.00: Session
4a: Constructing Spatial Power through War
Sander Govaerts (University of Amsterdam): An
Ecological Perspective on Medieval Warfare:
the Meuse Region in the
Late Middle Ages
João Nisa (Universidade de Coimbra): Rethinking
the Space: the Military Organisation of
the Comarca of Entre
Tejo e Odiana (Portugal) in the 14th century
Cornel-Peter Rodenbusch (Universitat de Barcelona/Eberhard Karls
Universität Tübingen): Estates without Gates
– Violent Appropriation in tje Catalan
High Middle Ages
9.30-11.00: Session 4b: Authority, Power, and Tactical Organisation
Julien De Palma (Université de Lille):
The Medieval Flag: Organization, Communication and Control in the Armies of Philip the Good and Charles the Bold dukes of Burgundy
Alan V. Murray (University of Leeds): The Problem
of the Schiltrom: Scottish Infantry Tactics
from Falkirk (1298) to Bannockburn (1314)
Elise Cardoso (Universidade de Coimbra): The
Military Logistics of Royal Armies
in Portugal during the 15th century
11.00-11.15: Coffee Break
11.15-12.45: Session
5a: Developing Portuguese Overseas Power
through Warfare
António Martins Costa (Universidade de Coimbra) & Inês
Meira Araújo (Universidade de Lisboa):
Riding the
Waves to Raid the Shores. Amphibian Operations in the
Portuguese Conquests in the
Maghreb (1415-1513)
Margarida Garcez Ventura (Universidade de Lisboa): Diplomacy,
War, and Power. Military-Diplomatic Outlines
of the Portuguese defeat in Tangier (1437-1472)
José Varandas (Universidade de Lisboa): Medieval
naval operations to the Canary Islands
(14th– 15thcenturies). Portugal, Castile,
and Genoa at War in the
Atlantic Ocean
11.15-12.45: Session 5b: Power Relationships and the Finances of Warfare
Roberto Biolzi (Université de Lausanne): The Rise
and Fall of Savoy: an Analysis
through the Military Accounts (13th-15th c.)
Laura Miquel Milian (Institucio Milà i Fontanals -
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas):
Against
Enemies and Rebels: Encouraging Loyalty in Barcelona during the Catalan Civil War
Alessandro Silvestri (Trinity College Dublin): The
Consequences of War. The Sicilian Contribution
to Financing the Aragonese Wars in
Italy under Alfonso
the Magnanimous (1416-1458)
12.45-13.45: Lunch
13.45_14.45: Keynote 2:
Bertrand Schnerb (Université de Lille): War and Education in
Late Medieval Burgundy
14.45_18.00:
Visit of Brussels’ medieval town walls and arms and armour collection
at the Porte de Hal
Saturday 26 May
9.30-‐‑11.00: Session 6: War
and Princely Power II
Ana de Fátima Correia (Universidade de
Coimbra): Gender, War and Narratives: the
case of Emma “Ælgifu” of Normandy
(c.990-‐‑1052)
Irena Berovic (Heinrich-‐‑Heine-‐‑Universität Düsseldorf): The
Power and Authority of
the Cannibal King: Otherness in the
Middle English Richard Coeur de Lyon
Michael Depreter (British Academy,
University of Oxford) & Jonathan Dumont (Université de Liège):
Gunpowder Artillery, Political Imagery, and
Princely Power in France and the
Burgundian Low Countries (ca. 1450-‐‑1515)
11.00-‐‑11.15:
Coffee Break
11.15-‐‑12.45: Session 7:
Regulating the Soldier’s Violence
Jonathan Bloch (Université catholique
de Louvain): Military Institutional Anarchy
yet Social and Anthropological Constraint:
Waging War for the French Crown between
1418 and 1445
Jacques
Péricard
(Université de
Limoges): Shaping
of Power during
the 9th and
10th Centuries. Military Activity According
to the Glosses
Quentin Verreycken (Université catholique
de Louvain / Université Saint-‐‑Louis –
Bruxelles): Violence and Returning Soldiers
in Fifteenth-‐‑Century France and the Low
Countries
12.45-‐‑13.45:
Lunch
13.45-‐‑15.15: Session 8:
Justifying War and Warfare
Marilia
Lykaki
(University of Athens / École
Pratique des Hautes
Études, Paris):
The Byzantine
Warfare Ideology as Illustrated in Military
Treatises and Legislation Texts (6th
– 11th c.)
Georgios Theotokis (University of Athens):
Transcultural Warfare in the Mediterranean:
the Case of Italy in the Eleventh
Century
James Titterton (University of Leeds):
Beyond the Pale: Abnormal Tactics among
the Welsh and Irish in Gerald of
Wales
15.15-‐‑15.30:
Coffee Break
15.30-‐‑16.00: Conclusions
More information on the website of the organisers
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