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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rogge, Jörg.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : transcript, 2018.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • 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.